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February 21, 2015

“New York Nights”

View the printed program from this concert performance
  • Algebra of Night 51:20Eugene O'Brien
    Movements
    • 1 Moon (Mark Strand) 6:00
    • 2 Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night (Charles Simic) 2:59
    • 3 New York dark in August (Edwin Denby) 3:13
    • 4 Interlude: Burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night 3:46
    • 5 Avenue A (Frank O'Hara) 3:55
    • 6 Lullaby (W. H. Auden) 8:57
    • 7 The Mad Scene (James Merrill) 3:09
    • 8 To the Harbormaster (Frank O'Hara) 4:58
    • 9 Interlude: Of sorrow from the moonstruck darkness 6:00
    • 10 A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (Frank O'Hara) 8:20
  • Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942) 11:40Leonard Bernstein
    Movements
    • I. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942) 11:40
  • New York Notes (1982) 23:09Charles Wuorinen
    Movements
    • I. Movement I 7:12
    • II. Movement II 7:51
    • III. Movement III 8:11
Performance location – Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC