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NUMUS 2005-2006 SERIES

8:00 pm, Saturday, September 17, 2005
Maureen Forrester Hall, Waterloo

Keyboard Review

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of NUMUS 1985-2005

This concert presents 20 miniatures for the keyboard each from a year in the last two decades. Music by Hatch, Rea, Stockhausen, Carter, Southam, Murphy, Bouliane and others with a premiere composed by Jerome Blais.

Program:

1985 Chan Ka-Nin (Canada) Phantasmagoria (Harpsichord)
1986 Roger Redgate (UK) Eidos
1987 Iannis Xenakis (Greece-France) à r
1988 Peter Hatch (Canada) Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
1989 John Rea (Canada) Portrait of a Man in Elysian Fields (Hommage à Morton Feldman)
1990 James Rolfe (Canada) Idiot Sorrow
1991 Henry Kucharzyk (Canada) All Thumbs
1992 Toru Takemitsu (Japan) Rain Tree Sketch II (In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen)
1993 Andrew Toovey (UK) To Sappho
1994 Pierre Boulez (France) Incises
1995 James Harley (Canada) Variation: a little beyond
1996 Linda C. Smith (Canada) Bloom
1997 Eric Morin (Canada) Clone

~Intermission~

1998 Denis Bouliane (Canada) Contredanse du silène Badouny
1999 Elliott Carter (USA) Two diversions
2000 Harrison Birtwistle (UK) Betty Freeman: Her Tango
2001 John Adams (USA) American Berserk
2002 Jerome Blais (Canada) Plugged 1.2 (Harpsichord)
2003 Kelly-Marie Murphy (Canada) Let Hands Speak
2004 Nicolas Gilbert (Canada) À rebours (Essai sur le brieveté de la vie)
2005 Ian Crutchley (Canada) 40 digits: Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, Pluck (world premiere)

Performers:

Simon Docking, curator and piano
Cynthia Hiebert, harpsichord
James Parker, piano
Heather Dawn Taves, piano

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