Blooming Flowers

Presented by Ensemble for These Times

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Ensemble for These Times performs the World Premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao's "Blooming Flowers, Full Moon" for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers:
Pulitzer-winning (first in music for a woman) Ellen Taafe Zwillich: "Lament";
American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize Victoria Bond: "Binary";
American Academy of Arts and Letters Chen Yi: "Ji Dong Nuo";
Opera America Discovery Grant Lori Laitman: "The Metropolitan Tower and Other songs";
Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov: "Passion Revisited";
Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman "Times of Speaking and Silence"'
Theatre composer Ellen Mandel: songs;
Canadian Guggenheim Fellow Vivan Fung, "Primitive Dance" and "Folk Song"
Audrey Call (1905-2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Call), "The Witch of Harlem"
Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; and guest violinist Ilana Blumberg

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Program Items

Aleksandra Vrebalov Passion Revisited for piano trio
Vivian Fung Primitive Dance and Folk Song
Ellen Taafe Zwillich Lament for cello and piano
Lori Laitman Songs from the Metropolitan House
Weiwei Miao Blooming Flowers, Full Moon, piano trio, World Premiere

Performers

Nanette McGuiness Soprano
Anne Lerner-Wright Cello
Dale Tsang Piano
Illana Blumberg Violin (Guest)
Nanette McGuinness

Center for New Music

Center for New Music

55 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States