TRIBUTES TO THE PRISM SAXOPHONE QUARTET

November 19, 2004: Symphony Space, New York, NY
November 20, 2004: Trinity Center for Urban Life, Philadelphia, PA

For their 20th anniversary year, the Minimum Security composers have been invited to contribute brief compositions to be performed as tributes to Prism, the world's greatest sax quartet.

   Dennis DeSantis: Hive Mind *
   Roshanne Etezady: (Title TBA) *
   Adam B. Silverman: Just a Minute, Chopin *
   Ken Ueno: July 23, from sunrise to sunset, the summer of the S.E.P.S.A. bus rides destra e sinistra around Ischia just to get tomorrow's scatolame *

Other tributes premiered on this program include those by a slew of composers: Tim Berne, William Bolcom, Zack Browning, Robert Capanna, Donnacha Dennehy, Nick Didkovsky, Jason Eckardt, Renee Favand, Perry Goldstein, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larson, Alvin Lucier, Keith Moore, Greg Osby, Frank Oteri, James Primosch, Tim Ries, Greg Wanamaker, and Chen Yi.

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MAURICE SENDAK MUSIC

January 28, 29, and 30, 2005
The Prince Theater in Philadelphia, PA
Relâche presents a demonstration of Maurice Sendak Music
   Ken Ueno: Chicken Soup With Rice *
   Dennis DeSantis: Where the Wild Things Are*, What Do You Do, Dear? *
   Roshanne Etezady: Pierre *
   Adam B. Silverman: In the Night Kitchen*, Brundibar *

Special thanks for this project goes to:
   The authors and illustrators Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner
   Performing ensemble Relâche and its past & present artistic directors Thaddeus Squire and Christopher McGlumphy,
   Collaborating partners The Rosenbach Museum and Library (esp. Bill Adair, Director of Education) and WHYY Radio (esp. Ken Finkel, Executive Director of Arts and Culture), and
   Generous funder The Philadelphia Music Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts

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AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM MINI-FESTIVAL

The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, built in 2002, features a spectacular state-of-the-art theater for intimate chamber music with multimedia. In celebration of this venue's new presence in New York, The Minimum Security Ensemble will perform a mini-festival of concerts devoted to the music of Austrian and American composers.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
The Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
The Minimum Security Ensemble: Amelia Watkins (soprano), Tracy Wise (tenor), David Adam Moore (baritone), Mark Kaczmarczyk (bass), Mercedes Baldovino (treble), Jonathan Yates (pianist and conductor). This concert also features a performance by guest improv trio Onda: Ken Ueno (voice and electronics), Hillary Zipper (violin) and Timothy Feeney (percussion).
AUSTRIAN AND AMERICAN MUSIC FOR VOICES AND PIANO
   Adam B. Silverman: To Become an Islander * (Watkins, Yates)
   Adam B. Silverman: Scene from the opera Korczak's Orphans * (Watkins, Wise, Moore, Kaczmarczyk, Baldovino, Yates)
   HK Gruber: Rauchlied, 3. Mai 1973, and Die Oete Leier (Wise, Yates)
   Charles Ives: In Flanders Fields, The See’r, The Things Our Fathers Loved, They Are There!, The New River, At the River (Moore, Yates)
   Arnold Schoenberg: Vier Lieder, Op. 2 (Watkins, Yates)
   Kurt Schwertsik: ich sein blumenbein (Watkins, Yates)
   Ken Ueno: Onda 3/23/2005 (Ueno, Zipper, Feeney)

Thursday, March 24, 2005
The Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
The Minimum Security Ensemble: Timothy McAlister (saxophone), Amy Sue Barston, (cello), Tanya Bannister (piano), Steven Buck (piano).
AUSTRIAN AND AMERICAN CHAMBER MUSIC
   Olga Neuwirth: Spleen III for saxophone
   Dennis DeSantis: Make it. Stop. for saxophone and piano
   Roshanne Etezady: Streetlegal for saxophone and piano
   Adam B. Silverman : Red Herring for cello
   Johannes Brahms: Sonata in e minor for cello and piano

* denotes world-premiere performance