GNE Guests on The Chamber Music of Andrew Earle Simpson
Great Noise Ensemble: Guest Artists – The Chamber Music of Andrew Earle Simpson
Thursday, March 22, 8:00 PM
Ward Recital Hall
The Catholic University of America
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow
Great Noise Ensemble appears as guest artists on a recital of chamber music and silent film music by Andrew Earle Simpson (a composition faculty member at Catholic University).
GNE will perform Simpson’s Chamber Concerto, a 1992 three-movement work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion. GNE Director Armando Bayolo will conduct the performance.
Also on the program:
The premiere of the clarinet-piano version of Summer-Night Songs (1994, rev. 2006);
phos (2000-01), for piano and percussion;
The Dead are Dancing (2006), for flute and piano;
Melies Suite (2006), for solo piano, featuring music originally written to accompany silent films;
Liberty (2005), performed by the Snark Ensemble (Andrew Simpson, piano, Maurice Saylor, woodwinds, and Phil Carluzzo, percussion, with Ben Redwine, guest artist): inspired by a Laurel and Hardy silent film of the same title
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