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Tag: Melia Watras

Tuesday, September 5th

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Rose Wollman (viola), live (performing the program on Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy [Acis, 2022]),* Chicago, 8/20/23

*Program:

I
1. Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prelude (Arr. for Viola)

2. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: I. Hora Lunga

3. Garth Knox, Ritorno

II

4. Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata XVII in D Major, B. D2: IV. Furlana (Arr. for Viola)

5. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: II. Loop

6. Alexander Mansour, Loop for Solo Viola and Electronics

III

7. Domenico Gabrielli, Ricercar for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)

8. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: III. Facsar

9. Rose Wollman, Wanderlust

IV

10. Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata, Op. 5, No. 6: III. Allegro (Arr. for Viola)

11. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: IV. Prestissimo con sordino

12. Atar Arad, Caprice Fourteen (Gyorgy)

V

13. Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia for Violin Without Bass No. 12 in A Minor, TWV 40:25: I. Moderato (Arr. for Viola)

14. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: V. Lamento

15. Melia Watras, Blue Rose

VI

16. Franz Biber, Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas: 16. Passacaglia in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)

17. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: VI. Chaconne chromatique

18. Natalie Williams, Ciklus

 

Wednesday, June 24th

Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Rothko Chapel (1971); Seattle Modern Orchestra (with Julia Tai, conductor; Melia Watras, viola; Stephen Olsen, celesta; Brian Yarkovsky, percussion; Sarah Marroquin, soprano), live, Seattle, 2012

Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets William Bronk and Wislawa Szymborska, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.

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lagniappe

reading table

This performance reminds me at times of Emily Dickinson:

The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air—
Between the Heaves of Storm—

—No. 591 (Johnson), “I heard a Fly buzz”

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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), No. 560, 2008 (Mutual Regard, through August 23rd)

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