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WIUSIC

Ripples (1993)*

Paul Bendzsa Clarinet

Kristina Szutor Piano

George Langdon Narrator

for Solo Clarinet and Digital Delay

Three Chambers (1991) Tarantella Raven in the Opera House Out of the Ashes Rises an Angel

Parable XIII for Solo Clarinet, op. 126

INTERMISSION

Donald F. Cook Recital Hall M.O. Morgan Building

Friday, 29 January, 1993

Clark Winslow Ross (1957- )

Omar Daniel (1960- )

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)

On Iapetus (1993)* George Langdon and Paul Bendzsa

In Memoriam, op. 43b* for Solo Clarinet

Sonata (1941-42) Grazioso Andantino - Vivace e leggiero

* World Premier

Michael Parker (1948- )

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

PROGRAMME NOTES

Ripples Clark Winslow

Ripples (1993) is a composition for solo clarinet and digital delay unit (which creates an echo), written for Paul Bendzsa. The composer v "The title refers to an image of the rippling effect obtained by dropping a pebble into still water, then dropping a few more at irregular inte and watching the way the ripples intersect and interact with one another."

Three Chambers (1991) Omari

Three Chambers was written in 1991 with financial assistance from the Ontario Arts Council Commissioning Program and derives its inspi from three Italian horror films. Tarantella is based upon Lamberto Bava's film 'Demons'. The kinetic energy which characterizes the 'us (so against them (the demons)' scenerio, which verges upon chaos and madness in the film, led me to select the highly kinetic tarantella dan structure. Raven in the Opera House is an illustration of a single scene from Daria Argento's film 'Opera'. Argento is a master of virtuoso movement, and in this scene the audience sees through the eyes of a raven as the bird dives, swoops and glides. Out of the Ashes Rises an takes as its inspiration one of the final scenes from Michele Soavi's 'Sect'. Common to many films of the Italian horror genre is the motif angel embodied in a heroine, who finally triumphs over evil at the end. In the final minutes of Sect, a fiery automobile accident occurs in we have given up the heroine for dead. Yet as the wreckage is extinguished, she rises from the carnage pure and unscathed.

In Memoriam Michael

Between 1985 and 1988 I lost my father, my grandmother and my mother. This has had a profound impact on my compositions. Part of the process for me has been directed to my writing, and many of my works since 1985 are reflections on death and life. In Memoriam is th in this series. While born from very personal circumstances, it is conceived more as a general expression of mourning and remembrance. It is in the form of a theme and variations. In Memoriam, originally for violin and piano, was commissioned by the Canadian Music Corn through a grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. This version for clarinet solo is dedicated to Etienne Lamaison.

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PAUL BENDZSA, woodwind specialist, teacher and performer has been a faculty member at Memorial University since 1976. His entbusi new music and musical adventure has led him to founding memberships in a diverse number of ensembles: The Atlantic Arts Trio, the C Saxophone Quintet, Fusion, and most recently the Blue Rider Ensemble. As a result of these collaborations a number of tours have taken him Canada, to England, Spain, Hong Kong, Korea and Australia where newly commissioned and classical music have been performed.

Pianist KRISTINA SZUTOR is a native of British Columbia who has been recently transplanted to Newfoundland where she bas taken a as Assistant Professor at Memorial University. She holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School and is presently completing a Doctoral from the University of British Columbia. She has performed with orchestras such as the Quebec Symphony and the Vancouver Philharmo she can be beard frequently on CBC radio both locally and nationally. She is a member of the contemporary music ensemble known as Rider which recently returned from a successful performance at an international Schoenberg conference in Barcelona.

GEORGE LANGDON grew up around the bay and then went to university in St. John's where he studied geology and music. His associati Paul Bendzsa began in the MUN Jazz Ensemble in 1979. He went to the mainland and abroad to work, and then returned to York Unive 1987 where be studied composition and jazz saxophone. Since moving back to St. John's in 1990 he has performed in Fusion, Dan's Dr Cartage Co. and the Chris Coady Quartet. His Lattice Suite and Quotients were played at the 1990 and 1991 Canadian Contemporary Workshops in Toronto, and the String Quartet: North of Gondwana was premiered at the 1992 Sound Symposium. George is currently war his doctorate in Earth Sciences at MUN.

CLARK WINSLOW ROSS was born in Venezuela, and lived in Peru, the United States, Belgium, Toronto before joining the School of Memorial University in 1992. Dr. Ross's works have been performed and broadcast across Canada, and he is a finalist in the 1993 W Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival Canadian Composers Competition. He wrote five articles and revised/updated four others for the published Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, second edition.

MICHAEL PARKER was born in Toronto in 1948. He studied violin and viola at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, in Ba Michigan State University. From 1972-76 be was founding member, performer and executive secretary with the contemporary music group (now ARRA YMUSIC) in Toronto. Parker graduated in 1972 with a Masters degree in Classical Studies (Greek and Latin) from the Univ Toronto and completed his Ph.D. in Roman Studies from McMaster University in 1991. In 1976, Parker moved to Newfoundland where b as Principal Violist with the Newfoundland Symphony from 1976-77. In 1977 be was appointed to the faculty of Sir Wilfred Grenfell Memorial University of Newfoundland in Comer Brook, where be is currently Associate Professor of Classics. He bas been a prize-winner in and provincial competitions. Three of his works have been recorded on disc and three more are to appear within the next few years. His been performed throughout Canada, and in Amsterdam, London, Cairo, France and the United States.

OMAR DANIEL is currently finishing a doctorate degree in composition at the University of Toronto, and has studied with such wei composers as John Beckwith and Leo Brouwer, and in 1987-88 src:nt an extende~.period in Cambridge, England, studying with distinguisbe composer Alexander Goebr. Awards include the 1~87 PRO .National ~mpetJtJon for Young Composers, the 1987 Toronto Intemation Competition (Composition), and the 1990 CBC National Radto Competition for Young Composers.