RED NOTE New Music Festival Events
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MONDAY, MARCH 19TH
4 PM // PRESENTATION // Centennial East Room 229
ROBERT HONSTEIN, composer
Up-and-coming composer Robert Honstein discusses his music. 8 PM // CONCERT I // Kemp Recital Hall
COLOR FIELD ENSEMBLE
soprano / clarinet / sax / piano / guitar / bass / percussion
Color Field Ensemble, an exciting group of musicians from Ohio, will present a concert of music inspired by a letter from prison, emails from a dating website, and more.
MUSIC & WORDS BY: Frederic Rzewski // Sam Melville // Robert Honstein // David Rakowski // Philippe Leroux //
Jeff Weston
TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH
2 PM // READING SESSION // CPA
FULCRUM POINT NEW MUSIC PROJECT
Fulcrum Point presents a reading of student works in the Center for Performing Arts. 3 PM // MASTER CLASS // Kemp Recital Hall
STEPHEN BURNS, trumpet 7:30 PM // PRE-CONCERT LECTURE // Kemp Recital Hall
ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, Professor of English
ISU English Professor Robert McLaughlin discusses the work of David Foster Wallace, whose Everything is Green constitutes the text of Randall Woolf's composition. 8 PM // CONCERT II // Kemp Recital Hall
FULCRUM POINT NEW MUSIC PROJECT
flute / clarinet / horn / string quartet / piano / percussion
The Chicago-based ensemble Fulcrum Point presents a program of recent works, including Joseph Turrin's Riffs and Fanfares, the winning work in this year's Composition Competition.
MUSIC & WORDS BY: Samuel Beckett // Peter Lieberson // Paul Moravec // Joseph Turrin // Ken Ueno //
David Foster Wallace // Randall Woolf
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21ST
8 PM // CONCERT III // Kemp Recital Hall
ISU STUDENTS AND FACULTY
ISU School of Music faculty members and students perform works inspired by poetry, short stories, documentaries, and the sonic qualities of the English language.
MUSIC & WORDS BY: Charles Amirkhanian // Charles Baudelaire // Martin Bresnick // Anne Carson // Julio Cortazar // Franz Kafka // Paula Matthusen // Alex Miller // Butch Rovan // Carl Schimmel // Jacob TV
THURSDAY, MARCH 22ND
8 PM // CONCERT IV // Kemp Recital Hall
ISU STUDENTS AND FACULTY
The Festival concludes with this concert featuring the ISU School of Music's vocal ensembles, and the University of Illinois' Quasari Quartet. This concert also features a performance by the winner of the Contemporary Music Competition for Young Performers, bass trombonist David Gerber.
MUSIC & WORDS BY: Elizabeth Alexander // Timo Andres // Samuel Beckett // Anna Clyne //
Rep. George Dondero (R-MI) // Martha Horst // Timothy Kramer // Bill Kushner // Roy Magnuson // Eric Moe //
Gerald Rich // John Fitz Rogers // William Shakespeare // Reginald Unterseher
