We welcome you to the new edition of eQuarternotes, updating you with the latest composer news between issues of our printed newsletter Quarternotes.

In this issue we explore new works by Carter, Birtwistle and Marsalis. You can watch a new web documentary on Michel van der Aa and listen to new CDs by Lindberg and Markevitch.

We also invite you to follow news on our composers via our newly launched pages on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

The next printed Quarternotes will be posted to you in June, followed by a further eQuarternotes by email in August.

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the Boosey & Hawkes Promotion team
 

CONTENTS

Composer News:
    • Carter: new song cycle at summer festivals
    • Birtwistle: Angel Fighter premiere in Leipzig
    • Marsalis: Rattle conducts new work in Berlin
    • News in brief
 
Featured Video:
    • Michel van der Aa: new web documentary


CARTER: NEW SONG CYCLE AT SUMMER FESTIVALS

Photo: Elliott Carter; © Meredith Heuer

Three of the world’s leading conductors, Pierre Boulez, James Levine and Daniel Barenboim, give premieres of Elliott Carter's most recent song cycle, What Are Years, over the coming festival seasons. Scored for soprano and ensemble, the cycle sets texts by American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972).

Co-commissioning festivals - Aldeburgh, Tanglewood and Lucerne - feature the work this summer with the German premiere following in July 2011.
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BIRTWISTLE: ANGEL FIGHTER PREMIERE IN LEIPZIG

Photo: Harrison Birtwistle; © Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Harrison Birtwistle's new half-hour work for choir and ensemble, Angel Fighter, receives its premiere at the Leipzig BachFest on 13 June with the RIAS Chamber Choir and musikFabrik conducted by Stefan Asbury. The libretto is by Stephen Plaice who collaborated with Birtwistle on the chamber opera The Io Passion.

The Angel Fighter of the title is the Biblical patriarch Jacob who wrestles with an angel in the Genesis narrative, a mythic turning point that for Birtwistle has resonated down the ages.
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MARSALIS: RATTLE CONDUCTS NEW WORK IN BERLIN

Photo: Wynton Marsalis; © Rob Waymen

Simon Rattle premieres a new work by jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis in June, both in concert form and as a dance project with Berlin schoolchildren.

The Berliner Philharmoniker and the 15 musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra join forces for the new work, receiving first concert performances at the Philharmonie on 9 and 10 June. The score then forms the basis of a new dance work performed by 170 Berlin schoolchildren at the Arena Berlin in Treptow on 12 and 13 June.
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NEWS IN BRIEF

>MacMillan: Violin Concerto premiere with Repin

>Southbank Centre's Bernstein Project presents Mass

>Chin's Alice in Geneva and Seoul Philharmonic tour

>Turnage: Anna Nicole, the opera, announced

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MICHEL VAN DER AA: NEW WEB DOCUMENTARY

This new 10-minute web documentary produced by Boosey & Hawkes offers an introduction to Michel van der Aa and his creative world.

An interview filmed at van der Aa's home in Amsterdam is combined with extracts from key works combining music, film and electronics, including his opera After Life which receives its UK premiere at the Barbican in London on 15 May.
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New Recordings
Listen to audio clips


MAGNUS LINDBERG
GRAFFITI

Helsinki Chamber Choir/Finnish Radio Symphony/
Sakari Oramo

Ondine ODE 1157-2

Premiere recording of Magnus Lindberg's first work for chorus and orchestra, setting Latin graffiti texts from Pompeii.

IGOR MARKEVITCH
L'Envol d'Icare

Ballet, for orchestra
Arnhem Philharmonic/
Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Naxos 8.572153

Music by Igor Markevitch, the Diaghilev protegé and missing link between Stravinsky and Messiaen, is explored in this reissued orchestral series from Naxos. The Markevitch centenary is in 2012.

For other recent recordings visit www.boosey.com/
recordings
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Diary Dates
May to July 2010
(Highlights)

JAMES MACMILLAN
Violin Concerto

12 May 2010
Barbican, London

Vadim Repin / London Symphony Orchestra /
Valery Gergiev


DETLEV GLANERT
Insomnium

for orchestra
27 May 2010
Philharmonie, Munich

Munich Philharmonic /
Christian Thielemann


MAGNUS LINDBERG
New Work

23 June 2010
Avery Fisher Hall

New York Philharmonic /
Alan Gilbert


LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Anaïs Nin

for singer, ensemble and sampler
10 July 2010
Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena

Cristina Zavalloni /
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil


KARL JENKINS
Gloria

11 July 2010
Royal Albert Hall, London

The Really Big Chorus /
Brian Kay


BRETT DEAN
Epitaphs

for string quintet
12 July 2010
Cheltenham Festival

Brett Dean /
Australian String Quartet


For further premieres and other dates visit www.boosey.com/
performances
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