From Vienna to LA: UCLA Philharmonia Celebrates Milken Archive Composers
Royce Hall
Distinguished faculty and alumni soloists with UCLA Philharmonia will perform works by an exciting range of composers featured in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience. The concert is part of the worldwide Schoenberg 150 celebrations.
Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 was a pivotal work in the composer’s development, heralding a revolutionary approach to harmony and orchestral color. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran’s “Voices: For a Flutist with Orchestra” (2001) explores Middle Eastern modes, structures and textures in a lively and evocative work for soloist (playing flute, piccolo and alto flute) and orchestra.
Eric Zeisl’s Mondbilder (Moon Portraits): Four Songs on texts by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and orchestra receives its first performance since its 1936 premiere in Vienna. And the great Paul Schoenfield’s riotous “Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra” concludes the celebration with a virtuosic, high-spirited bang!
Special thanks to E. Randol Schoenberg for his support of a new performing edition of Eric Zeisl’s “Mondbilder.”
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and, the Leo M. Klein and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Music Performance Studies.
This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like this possible. We are proud to celebrate this program as part of the 2024 – 25 Dobrow Series.
Repertoire:
Arnold Schoenberg
Five Pieces, Op. 16 (1909; re-orchestrated 1949) 17′
I. Vorgefüle (Premonitions)
II. Vergangenes (Yesteryears)
III. Farben (Colors)
IV. Peripetie (Turning Point)
V. Das obligate Rezitativ (The Obligatory Recitative)
Shulamit Ran (b. 1949)
Voices: Concerto for a flutist with orchestra (2000) 16′
I. Quasi Passacaglia
II. Voice of the Wood
III. Big Bands, Little Bands
William Adams, flutes (UCLA MM 2023)
Intermission
Eric Zeisl
Mondbilder (Moon Portraits): Four Songs on texts by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and orchestra (1928; orch. 1936) 14′
I. Der Mond steht da (The moon is there)
II. Eine goldene Sichel (A Golden Sickle)
III. Groß über schweigenden Wäldern (Large over silent forests)
IV. Durch die Abendwolken fliegt ein Bumerang (A boomerang flies through the evening clouds)
Jared Jones, baritone (UCLA MM 2018)
Paul Schoenfield
Four Parables: concerto for piano and orchestra (1982-83) 29′
I. Rambling Till the Butcher Cuts Us Down
II. Senility’s Ride
III. Elegy
IV. Dog’s Heaven
Inna Faliks, piano (UCLA faculty)
Like most of UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s programs, this event is FREE! Early arrival is recommended. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. No RSVP required.
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Parking
Parking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Guest drop is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Accessibility
Royce Hall has a variety of accessible seating available. In addition to seating space that can accommodate a wheelchair with a companion seat, Royce Hall is also equipped with select aisle seats that have folding armrests on aisle sides to make transfer easier for those with mobility limitations. For such seating please request a “transfer seat” when making a ticket purchase. Royce Hall is equipped with an assistive listening system, to check out a headset simply provide any member of the house staff with your driver’s license. Accessible parking spaces in Parking Structure 5 are located on level 4. For oversized vehicles, please use level 6. Guest drop off is located at 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095 – at the flagpoll, wheelchair assistance is available at the flagpoll and at level 4 of Structure 5.
To speak to someone about accommodations please contact the Royce Hall House Manager at 310-267-4465.
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