2000 to 2001 season
REBEGINNINGS
Original seasonal letter from Stephanie Key:
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our seventh season of music!
In this season of Rebeginnings, we will revisit old friendships, and start new ones, with composers who have reinvented themselves and everything they knew. All the while, we will reboot the way you listen, and reconfigure the very nature of music. Not all by ourselves, of course. We'll have help. From Beethoven to Stockhausen to Cage, we present a season of composers who have known when to throw away the textbook.
Join us to hear the trio that Brahms came out of retirement to write, having been inspired by a talented clarinetist. And John Cage, master of the unique, will demand that we completely rethink music in 4'33". New composers bring rejuvenation: In September, SOLI will premiere David Heuser's most recent work, Catching Updrafts; and the refreshing, new sounds of Aaron Jay Kernis, the youngest composer to receive the Pulitzer Prize, appear twice. And since every restart must get a refinish, or at least a repast … we celebrate the season at our spring benefit at Silo Elevated Cuisine, where we will present Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine. Aaron Jay Kernis' witty and hilarious music is brilliantly paired with the text of nineteenth century Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who rallied the people to rise from mediocrity into the industrial age -- through his countrymen's stomachs! This clever collaboration will be realized through the divine explorations of chef Mark Bliss.
I look forward to seeing you throughout the season.
Stephanie Key, President and Artistic Director
This season is dedicated to the memory of H.V. Doyle.
| Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:00pm |
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| SOLI opens its new season with percussionist Sherry Rubins and the World Premiere of Catching Updrafts by Texas composer David Heuser. | |
| Line Drawings‡ | |
| James Balentine for clarinet and percussion |
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| 4'33" | |
| John Cage for piano |
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| Catching Updrafts‡ | |
| David Heuser for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano |
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| Simultaneous Mosaics | |
| Henry Cowell for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion |
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| Trio | |
| Lowell Lieberman for violin, cello, and piano |
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SOLI ROMANTICOS
| Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:00pm |
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| Before we wonder what 21st Century music will sound like, SOLI will pay tribute to some of the transitional masterpieces that brought Western music into the 20th Century. | |
| Violin Sonata in A major, op. 47, "Kreutzer" | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| Trio in a minor, op. 114 | |
| Johannes Brahms for clarinet, cello, and piano |
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| Piano Trio | |
| Maurice Ravel for violin, cello, and piano |
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WINDS OF CHANGE
| Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:00pm |
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| Oboist Stephanie Shapiro joins us for captivating repertoire from Martinu, Stockhausen, and more. | |
| Fantasy | |
| Joan Tower for clarinet and piano |
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| Im Freundschaft | |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen for solo oboe |
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| Slang | |
| Libby Larsen for violin, clarinet, and piano |
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| Quartet | |
| Bohuslav Martinu for oboe, violin, cello, and piano |
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CONTEMPLATIONS
| Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:00pm |
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| SOLI proudly presents the breathtakingly beautiful work of Aaron Jay Kernis, complemented by the music of Texas composer William Thornton. | |
| Piano Sonata‡ | |
| William Thornton | |
| Still Movement with Hymn | |
| Aaron Jay Kernis for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano |
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YOU'VE NEVER TASTED MUSIC LIKE THIS
| Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 8:00pm * Silo Elevated Cuisine Austin Highway, San Antonio |
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| We end our season with a benefit in celebration of food and music, featuring the culinary talents of Mark Bliss. | |
| Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine | |
| Aaron Jay Kernis for piano trio and narrator |
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Notes & Comments
Programs are subject to change. Call SOLI at 210.930.3931 to confirm.
All performances took place at 8:00pm, in the Ruth Taylor Concert Hall on the campus of Trinity Unversity, in San Antonio, Texas, unless otherwise specified. Please call 210.999.8211 for directions.
Tickets for all performances were $10. Season Subscriptions available at a discount.
Ten minutes prior to every performance, remaining seats is made available to college students with a current I.D. for $5. (Admission is free to Trinity University students with a current I.D.) Admission is $5 for students kindergarten through high school.
‡ These selections were part of the "Texans into the Twenty-First Century" Series sponsored by Krazy Kat Music.
