Past event (2022)
From July 26 to July 31, 2022 Yellow Barn welcomes composer Shulamit Ran back to Putney, Vermont for a week of performances and conversations with musicians and audiences.
About Shulamit Ran
"Shulamit Ran has never forgotten that a vital essence of composition is communication."—The Chicago Tribune
Shulamit Ran began composing songs to Hebrew poetry at the age of seven in her native Israel. By nine she was studying composition and piano with some of Israel’s most noted musicians, and within several years was having her early works performed by professional musicians, as well as orchestras. She continued her studies in the U.S., on scholarships form the Mannes College of Music and the America Israel Cultural Foundation, and has been awarded most major honors given to composers in the U.S., including the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for her Symphony. Her music has been performed worldwide by leading ensembles including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Mendelssohn, Brentano, Pacifica, Spektral, and Juilliard Quartets, Chanticleer, and many others. Maestros Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menhuin, and others, have conducted her works. She was Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra between 1990 and 1997, and with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1994-1997 where her residency culminated in the premiere of her first opera Between Two Worlds (the Dybbuk). The recipient of five honorary degrees, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shulamit, who is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the University of Chicago Department of Music, where she has taught since 1973, is currently composing Anne Frank, a full-scale opera on a libretto by Charles Kondek.
Yellow Barn Concert
Hilda Paredes (b.1957) Ofrendas (Offerings) (2020)
Matthew Overbay, percussion; Sophiko Simsive, piano; Tony Flynt, double bass
Shulamit Ran (b.1949) Love’s Call (2016) Text by Charles Kondek, adapted from the Song of Songs
Lucy Shelton, soprano; Sophiko Simsive, piano
Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925-1991) Five Pieces on Georgian Folk Themes (1950)
Megan Yip, cello; Sophiko Simsive, piano
Intermission
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night) (1973-6)
Valerie Kim, Astrid Nakamura, violins; Lisa Sung, viola; Audrey Chen, cello
Travis Laplante (b.1982) The Golden Lock (2022)
World Premiere
Travis Laplante, saxophone; Charles Overton, harp; Tony Flynt, double bass; Lee Dionne, piano; Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Composer Portrait: Shulamit Ran
An evening of music and conversation
Shulamit Ran (b.1949)
Perfect Storm
Alexander McFarlane, viola
Verticals
Sophiko Simsive, piano
Spirit
Barret Ham, clarinet
The Which Happened from String Quartet No.3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory"
Sophia Anna Szokolay, Valerie Kim, violins; Hannah Burnett, viola; Megan Yip, cello
Yellow Barn Concert
Shulamit Ran (b.1949) Three Fantasy Pieces (1971)
John Myerscough, cello; Chaeyoung Park, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op.74 “Harp” (1809)
Yiliang Jiang, Çiğdem Tunçelli Sinangil, violins; Lara Albesano, viola; Madelyn Kowalski, cello
Intermission
Isang Yun (1917-1995) Pezzo fantasioso (1988)
James Austin Smith, oboe; Hee-Soo Yoon, violin; Tony Flynt, double bass
Claude Vivier (1948-1983) Bouchara, Chanson d'Amour (1981)
Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano; Rosie Gallagher, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet; Yen-Chen Wu, bassoon; Stephen Stirling, French horn; Anthony Marwood, Nathan Amaral, violins; Connie Pharoah, viola; Audrey Chen, cello; Tony Flynt, double bass; Matthew Overbay, percussion
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Trio in G Minor, Op.110 (1851)
Chaeyoung Park, piano; Julia Mirzoev, violin; Nina Kiva, cello
Yellow Barn Concert
Shulamit Ran (b.1949) String Quartet No. 3 “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” (2013)
Sophia Anna Szokolay, Valerie Kim, violins; Hannah Burnett, viola; Megan Yip, cello
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) Riti: I funerali di Carlo Magno (A.D. 814) (1976)
Jeffrey Ho, cello; Eduardo Leandro, Matthew Overbay, percussion
Shulamit Ran O The Chimneys (1969) Text by Nelly Sachs
Rebecca Printz, mezzo-soprano; Rosie Gallagher, flute; Alan Kay, clarinet; Jeffrey Ho, cello; Anna Han, piano; Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Shulamit Ran Invocation for French horn, chimes, and timpani (2000)
Stephen Stirling, French horn; Eduardo Leandro, Matthew Overbay, percussion
Intermission
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497) Kyrie and Agnus Dei from Missa Mi-Mi (c.1475-1480)
Nathan Amaral, Evan Hjort, violins; Alexander McFarlane, viola; Michael Kannen, cello
George Crumb (1929-2022) Ancient Voices of Children (1970) Text by García Lorca
Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano; Linus Schafer Goulthorpe, boy soprano; James Austin Smith, oboe; Jennifer Curtis, mandolin; Charles Overton, harp; Sophiko Simsive, electric piano; Eduardo Leandro, Matthew Overbay, Jessie Chiang, percussion
Yellow Barn Concert
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Elégie (1957)
Stephen Stirling, French horn; Abigail Sin, piano
Shulamit Ran (b.1949) Excursions (1980)
Yukiko Uno, violin; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Seth Knopp, piano
Kalevi Aho (b.1949) Quintet (2013)
James Austin Smith, oboe; Alan Kay, clarinet; Yen-Chen Wu, bassoon; Stephen Stirling, French horn; Alice Xu, piano
Intermission
Stephen Coxe (b.1966) Slow Wind (For Roger) for solo viola (2022)
World Premiere
Natalie Loughran, Edgar Francis, violas
Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019) String Quartet No. 6 “Fragments” (2016)
Curtis Macomber, KJ McDonald, violins; Lisa Sung, viola; Leland Ko, cello
Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960) Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op.1 (1895)
Lee Dionne, piano; Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Evan Hjort, violins; Maria Lambros, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello