Composer Arthur Levering has received numerous accolades, including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and commissions from the Fromm Foundation and Barlow Endowment.
Performer Biography
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is the premier orchestra in the United States dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording 20th and 21st-century music.
Performer Biography
The Lydian String Quartet, founded in 1980, won the prestigious Naumburg Award for Chamber Music in 1984 and is known for embracing the full range of string quartet repertoire.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Arthur Levering's orchestral tone poems, collectively titled OceanRiverLake, reference famous musical depictions of water by composers like Debussy, Ives, and Schoenberg.
Compositional Technique
Garland for Steven Stucky, a piano work, uses 'compound melody' where two or more voices are suggested within a single musical line, a technique famously used by J.S. Bach.
Performer Biography
Pianist Donald Berman is a multidimensional musician known for his 'stupendous abilities' and for commissioning over 200 new works, often performing them alongside classical repertoires.
Compositional Technique
The piece Giocattolo, meaning 'toy' in Italian, is built on a rigorous structure of 16 chords, each made up of 8 notes, despite its delicate instrumentation of piccolo, guitar, and celesta.
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