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'What the Best
of us is Capable of Creating'--
Works
by Two Oberlin Composers Featured in Cleveland Composers Guild Concert
on February 25
By Marci Janas '91
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Two Oberlin composition professors are among the new members of the Cleveland Composers Guild whose work will be showcased in a free, public concert of chamber music on Sunday, February 25, at 3:00 PM in Morley Music Hall, on the campus of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio.
Billed as "New Kids in Town," the performance will introduce many Cleveland-area listeners for the first time to the works of Jeffrey Mumford and Anna Rubin, assistant professors of composition at the Conservatory.
Mumford's revisiting variazioni elegiaci will be performed by Oberlin
Conservatory senior Wendy Richman, a viola performance major. The work
was revised by Mumford in 2001 from variazioni elegiaci, written
in 1979 for cellist Laurien Laufman as a response to the death of William
Cline.
"The Cline family--William, his wife Eileen and their daughter Joy-- welcomed me as a young student at the Aspen Music Festival in 1977," says Mumford. "I will never forget their hospitality. Of particular note was the fact that William, Eileen, and Joy were among the very few Blacks at Aspen that summer, and as such, made me as a young Black composer, feel very much at home. I wish I had known Mr. Cline longer than the two and a half months that particular Aspen summer session afforded me. However, the strength of his character made itself readily apparent. Eileen and Joy remain, to this day, trusted and wonderful friends."
revisiting variazioni elegiaci replaces Undiluted Days, another work by Mumford that was intended for the concert, but which, due to the illness of the pianist scheduled to perform it, had to be deleted from the program.
Rubin's
viola a tre, for three violas, will also be featured. She says her work,
which has not yet been performed in Ohio, "is quite contrapuntal
along with more chorale style passages. The harmonic and timbral successions
were fun to work with. The piece also takes its time to unfold and has
a varying sense of pace. I hope listeners will enjoy the journey."
For the past 40 years, the Cleveland Composers Guild-- part of the fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland--has promoted the works of new music composers in Northeast Ohio. Other "new kid" composers featured on the program are Greg d'Alessio, Ty Emerson, Dan Rager and Eric Ziolek.
The Bascom Little Fund provided funding for the concert.
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