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In Memoriam

January 18, 2019, 8:00 pm

From Stravinsky’s famous In Memoriam: Dylan Thomas to Hindemith’s Trauermusik, composers have long written their most personal and moving music as a tribute to a friend or great figure they admired. We’ll remember several great personalities with musical tributes by modern day composers.

Music

Brass Quintet, II, by William Mayar
Iowa Brass Quintet

Symphony No.4 “To the Memory of Mahinarangi Tocker” (excerpt), by Ross Harris
Aukland Philharmonia; Brett Dean, conductor

Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble. III. Be Content, Be Calm, by David Maslanka
Illinois State University Wind Symphony; Stephen K. Steele, conductor

First String Quartet (excerpt), by Fred Lerdahl
Julliard String Quartet

Memory Pieces for Solo Instruments: Cage, by David Lang
Andrew Zolinsky, piano

Elegy (for Two Bassoons and Piano), by Robert Patterson
Charles McCracken and Gilbert Dejean, bassoons; Elizabeth DiFelice, piano

Perpetual Spark, by Alex Shapiro
Fifth House Ensemble

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Relevant Tones is made possible by the generous support of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.; Bruce Oltman; the Amphion Foundation; Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University; and the listener supporters of WFMT.

Meet the Host

Seth Boustead is an award-winning composer, radio host, arts manager, concert producer, writer, and speaker who works to change classical music and how it is perceived by the general public. Seth is the founder and executive director of Access Contemporary Music, where he has produced more than a hundred live concerts and created the Sound of Silent Film Festival, the ACM School of Music, the Thirsty Ears classical music street festival and many more programs designed to present classical music as a living art form. Seth is a regular contributor to Newcity Magazine. He is the voice of the New York Philharmonic’s Biennial Minute video series. Seth has also given a TEDx talk about the future of classical music.