Contemporary Music Ensemble: Gregory Ristow ’01, conductor

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A performance by the Contemporary Music Ensemble conducted by Gregory Ristow ’01, with guest Joseph Schlesinger, countertenor.

Program:

Entr’actes and Sappho Fragments (1964) 25'         Sir Harrison Birtwistle

         Set I      

                  Entr’acte I

                  Entr’acte II

                  Entr’acte III

                  Entr’acte IV

                  Entr’acte V

         Set II

                  Entr’acte I

                  Cantus I

                  Entr’acte II (2^nd version)

                  Cantus II

                  Entr’acte III (2^nd version)

                  Entr’acte IV (2^nd version)

                  Cantus III

                  Entr’acte V (2^nd version)

                  Cantus IV

                  Cantus V

                  Coda

Katherine Lerner Lee, soprano

William Adams, flute   Willam Welter, oboe

Daphne Pickens, violin   Josephine Stockwell, viola

Ina McCormack, harp   Justin Gunter, percussion

- Pause -

Tituli (1999) 42'         Stephen Hartke

       I. Lapis niger (The Black Stone)         (b. 1952)

         II. Dedicatio (Offering)

         III. Columna rostrata (Triumphal Monument)

         IV. Elogium parvuli (Epitaph for a Small Boy)

         V. Tabula Panormi (Shop-sign from Palermo)

         VI. Sortes (Oracles)

         VII. Instrumenta (Inscriptions on Portable Objects)

Joseph Schlesinger, countertenor

Nicholas Music, Matthew Straw, Jedidiah Rellihan, tenor

Joseph Klinger, baritone

Liuwenji Wang, violin  

Louis Pino, Justin Gunter, percussion

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Joseph Schlesinger, countertenor, a DePaul University alumnus, received a Netherland America Foundation-Fulbright Fellowship to study from 2000-01 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands.  In the ensuing decade Mr. Schlesinger performed with the Netherlands Opera, the Dutch Reisopera, sang as a soloist in the Concertgebouw-Amsterdam and Palais des Beaux Arts-Brussels, and performed in Japan, Israel, and Europe.  Upon returning to the United States Mr. Schlesinger sang as a soloist with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, Madison Bach Musicians, and Seattle Pro Musica.  He has recently joined local Cleveland choirs: Quire Cleveland, Contrapunctus, and Apollo's Fire.  After many years of being a wanderlust troubadour he is finally settling down and raising three adopted children in Northeast Ohio.