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| Dates: | Sunday, October 26, 2025 - Sunday, October 26, 2025 |
| Hours: | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
Kah Chun Wong (1986 - ), Pecos Pueblo Pecos Pueblo (2007), Wong retells the story of a once large and powerful native American community circa the late 1500s.The music retells this history in an accessible manner in three sections.
Cait Nishimura (1991 - ), Intrinsic Light According to the composer:
“Intrinsic light is a term for the color or sensation we experience in complete darkness, due to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the retina.
My goal with this piece was to represent this phenomenon through sound.
Reflecting on this concept prompted a deeper, metaphorical realization: even in times of darkness.”
Gunther Schuller (1925 – 2015), Nature’s Way Gunther Schuller began as a French horn player, performing with the American Ballet Theater as a teenager, as principal horn in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1943-1945), and with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (1945-1959).
Thereafter, Schuller focused on musical composition and education, composing more than 200 works, spanning many musical genres including solo works, orchestral and wind ensemble pieces, chamber music, opera, and jazz.
Schuller served as president of the New England Conservatory where he formalized NEC’s commitment to jazz by establishing the first degree-granting jazz program at a major classical conservatory.
According to the composer, “Nature’s Way in no way represents a compromise of my personal style, nor my long-held concepts of form, continuity, texture, and instrumentation.
I have known for a long time that young, inquisitive minds are eager to learn from new experiences, from previously never encountered challenges….to rise above their present levels of achievement.
That’s what education (and this piece) is all about.”
Johan Schop (1590 – 1667), Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light Johann Schop was a German violinist and composer of the Baroque period.
The melody heard in Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (1641) was first known as Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist (Rouse thyself my weak spirit).
J.S. Bach probably found an altered version of the tune in Johann Cruger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica (1647) and subsequently harmonized it in various settings.
David Biedenbender (1984 - ), Luminescence Luminescence (2009) is based on fragments from the melody Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light, by Johann Schop and subsequently harmonized in several settings by J. S. Bach.
In Biedendender’s work the first fragment of the original tune is a declamatory statement in the horns, followed shortly thereafter by the trumpets and a brief response by the upper woodwinds.
An abruptly stark clarinet solo begins a moment of respite, with principal players across several sections playing fragments of the source material.
Gunther Schuller (1925 – 2015), Blue Dawn Into White Heat Blue Dawn into White Heat is perhaps the first (or at least one of the very few) jazz compositions written for concert band.
It is therefore a piece not only with its own intrinsic musical merits, but one that also serves a certain educational, didactic purpose, i.e., teaching classical players something about jazz.
The work, in one continuous movement, is divided into three sections delineated by clearly discernible, ever-faster tempos as well as changing meters.
Erik Santos (1983 - ), The Seer with David Jiles Jr., Tenor soloist Santos’ composition The Seer (2019) depicts the thinking and experiencing of a “Seer,” that is one who, through supernatural insight, can see what the future holds, and can see through to unseen truths.
Santos has constructed a musical mandala - a piece of music structured with circular or symmetrical patterns, like a traditional visual mandala, often used as a tool for meditation, healing, and expressing emotions.
Santos’ musical mandala weaves together many disparate strands of creative inspiration, including: the works of Langston Hughes and Rainer Maria Rilke, Nina Simone, Howlin’ Wolf, Killing Joke, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Rod Serling, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the stories from Parsifal and Ulysses.
In the composer’s own words: “As much as possible, I let the subconscious lead, as my conscious mind struggled to render dream dictation into a linear language that might resonate with another.”
David Jiles, our tenor soloist, has been on faculty at Berklee College of Music since 2014, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Voice department.
He has taught singing, dancing, and acting since 2006.
In that time, he has managed international gospel choirs, performed in musicals and plays throughout the United States and abroad, managed performers on cruise ships, and choreographed, and produced various shows in and out of the U.S.
| COST | ↑ top |
FREE
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.crwe.org/copy-of-2024-2025-season
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut HIll, MA, 02467 map
Phone: 5088633309
300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill 02467
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