Department of Music and Dance
Alumni Relations Office
Alumni Council
The Friends of Music and Dance at Swarthmore
3rd Annual Swarthmore College
Student and Alumni
Composers Concert
with Student and Alumni Perfomers
Saturday, November 10, 2012
3:00pm
Lang Concert Hall
Swarthmore College
Program
Osmosis Song (2010, released 2012) - Lacy James '84
music video
Lacy James, vocals & keyboards / Ross Bellenoit, guitars
Ken Pendergast, bass / Jeff Hiatt, bass & percussion / Charlie Patierno, drums
From Both Dimensions (2012) - Niels Verosky '14
solo piano
Ben Kapilow '13, piano
Ecclesiastes Tropes, Op. 129 (2005) - Mark Alburger '79
III. For Everything
IV. Again I Saw
V.-VI. There Is Evil
voice & music video
Mark Alburger, voice
Piece of a Piece (2012) - Sophia Uddin '11
piano four-hands
Rachel Kolb Moore '91, piano / Christina Moore, piano
Arrival in a Distant Land (2012) - The Gabriel Construct
Gabriel Riccio '11
solo voice
Gabriel Riccio, voice
Mr. X of Y (2011) - Emily Aubrey '89
Is What It Is (2012) - Melissa Running '94
fiddle & guitar
Emily Aubrey, fiddle / Lisa Wildman '84, guitar
Intermission
Danz Kompaktor - David Barnes '88
electroacoustic media: ambient/experimental
David Barnes, violas, sampled bits of viola, hammer dulcimer, & percussion
djembes, distored electric guitars, sampled steel drums, sound design
James Brooks, undistored electric guitars
Charles Cohen, Buchla analog synthesizer
From Both Dimensions (2012) - Niels Verosky '14
solo piano
Ben Kapilow '13, piano
phantasmagorial (2012) - Jermy Rapaport-Stein '14
clarinet, cello, & piano
Zoe Cina-Sklar '15, clarinet / Axel Kodat '15, cello / Andrew Hauze '04
How She Became (2012) - Ben Kapilow '13
In memoriam Diane Arbus
voice & piano
Lisa Wildman, voice / Ben Kapilow, piano
Dona Nobis Pacem (1974) - Peter Schickele '57
Swing, Swing, Swing (1979) - Peter Schickele '57
vocal rounds
Mark Alburger / Emily Aubrey / Lisa Lee '81
Jim Moskowitz '88 / Ellen Sasse '86
Thomas Whitman '81 / Lisa Wildman
Auriga (2012) - Robert Fain '14
solo clarinet
Zoe Cina-Sklar, clarinet
Call Drop Blues (2012) - Alejandro Sills '13
piano, cello, alto saxophone, & tenor vocals
Ben Kapilow, piano / Olivia Edwards '16, cello
Robert Fain, alto saxophone / Mark Alburger, tenor vocals
***
Before this,
breakfast with Bette and George,
departing for
Swarthmore
(with Dorothy Freeman
calling back to acknowledge that
she and Jim plan to
attend the
concert),
Andrew at last solving the volume dilemma, and with Harriet's reminder on the phone to be visible to the audience, we leave the lights on low, rather than off.
After more
reflective
work,
final rehearsal for
Alejandro's piece is followed by one for the
Schickele canons, and the program
(with a little eleventh-hour tech swap, involving computer a moi) is upon us, with
Bette and George, Steve and Hilary,
Jim and Dorothy,
Jerry, and many others in the
responsive crowd.
Rendezvous with
Lisa, who is at another Alumni function,
thereafter, and after an initial foray to parking-spaceless Media, we settle for dinner at a fine Chinese spot to the west.
Late night visit to Elaine Wilson for brownies and conviviality, then return to roost among the compositional improbabilities of Double Piano Concerto: II [page 10] and The Decameron - Third Day: Novel 5 [8] and pdf for At a Photo Shop [7]).
