Ensemble Connect
Part of: Tania León
Performers
Ensemble Connect
Program
INTI FIGGIS-VIZUETA seven sisters paint the earth (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
TANIA LEÓN De Memorias
BEETHOVEN Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, Op. 16
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.Salon Encores
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Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Additional support has been provided by the Kathi and Peter Arnow Foundation, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, E.H.A. Foundation, Barbara G. Fleischman, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Carlos Tome and Theresa Kim, and David S. Winter.
At a Glance
INTI FIGGIS-VIZUETA seven sisters paint the earth
The composer writes, “Andean farmers gather each year in late June to forecast the rainfall of the coming season, reading the brightness and clarity of the sisters in the pre-dawn sky. From these readings, farmers know whether to plant their crops sooner or to wait later in the year.” seven sisters paint the earth “reflects these relationships between earth and the heavens through the seven players of Ensemble Connect.”
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Currently The Philadelphia Orchestra’s composer in residence, Gabriela Lena Frank has mined her multicultural heritage in a series of enthusiastically received works, including Suite Mestiza for solo violin, Concertino Cusqueño, and the tone poem Apu. Her lively, six-movement string quartet Leyendas is based largely on Andean folk music and instruments.
TANIA LEÓN De Memorias
Like much of Tania León’s music, this colorful, highly rhythmic wind quintet is animated by the spirit of the dance. The Cuban-born composer launched her career in the 1960s with a string of works written for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Although she hasn’t written a full-fledged ballet in four decades, the kinetic impulse is fundamental to recent works like Pa’lante, commissioned by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
BEETHOVEN Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, Op. 16
The Quintet in E-flat Major is one of several chamber works that feature wind instruments that Beethoven wrote in the mid-1790s, shortly after moving to Vienna from his native Bonn. In publishing it simultaneously with a quartet arrangement for piano and strings, the ambitious composer probably hoped to capitalize on the popularity of his early piano trios and other works.