Eastman School of Music - Score Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Jazz Ensemble At Palestra H , , ' ' L .fax .-. I 1 A Z . .,....ea. .. i Q .-Egg, Eastman ensembles, like almost all youthful performing groups, usually need an active and interested audience in order to push the performance from a technical and accurate level up to an inspired and exciting level. The East- man Jazz Ensemble is no exception and has been fortunate enough to have a dedicated and enthusiastic fol- lowing to give it that push. On October 15, 1971, the Ensemble moved its location to the barnlike Pa- lestra on the University of Rochester's River Campus for its first concert. With Chuck Mangione's strong guid- ance from the podium and Ray Wright's capable handling of the am- plification of the group, the ensemble presented a strong performance. Working well under the informal at- mosphere, the ensemble provided the crowd with a variety of styles from Chuck's own Klee Impressions to Ted Piltzecker's BUS. Ted scored a success with his piece as the crowd really liked it.

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THE MORE HOT-TEMPERED HCONSORTIUMH by joseph Schwantner, a 20-year-old assistant professor teaching theory and composition at Eastman for his second year, was exciting in another, newer dimension. Consortium, being heard for the first time in Rochester, was ably performed by a student ensemble. lt had already been premiered Sept. 23 at Harvard Univer- sity's Busch-Resinger Museum by the Boston Musica Viva, to whose conductor, Richard Pittman, Dr. Schwantner had dedicated this nine-minute score of grip- ping intensity, Pittman originated the Eastmans Musica Nova series in 1966. Truly an activity piece, which is relentlessly energetic in its rhythmic lan- guage and expansive in its wide-range demands upon performers and listeners, Consortium seems to blend the bag-of-tricks approach of less successful com- posers into a dazzling, convincing work where continuity is the order of the day. Schwantner has assembled a fine collage from the very materials which many contemporary composers have been doodling with for the past Z0 years. He's integrated con batuto effects with staggering slashes of sonic lightening. A short passage for muted strings momentarily ices its surface. While clarinet and flute softly improvise rippling patterns in close quarters, the three string voices sing a unison pitch for a precarious moment before sliding like billiard balls to three opposing corners. Put simply, Schwantner has made a new, expressive music by mustering instru- mental effects in the service of expression, not experimentation for its own sake. In Consortium he is at the front of a new wave of composition that is roman- tic in outlook, rational in expression. And anyone truly serious about Rochester's developing appreciation of music written in our own time will want to watch for other Schwantner works. 4 I EA WALTER i-le:-lou., utxssee aww sr'.22-.'f sC e:az.j TH,Ei5'iC?3NY a , ,,,.. I , , musou F-r-L'+A SW g x . t s .. t l ' '- - ,lx Ri.-il'-Ll' it-.4 Ulm .-1 Q' 5 1 'sr -Q '-, ' x 1 --4 I N 8 wg c...- fire l For cra pie en: in H81 pi: Z f 4 Z, in A U A V V I l V H' M ' i' ' W f ' 3' -'firm .- fit: , Q