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Chaya Czernowin's Slow Summer Stay II: Lakes Debuts at Library of Congress

Apr. 30, 2013

Chaya Czernowin's <em>Slow Summer Stay II: Lakes</em> Debuts at Library of Congress

On May 3, James D. Freeman leads the Orchestra 2001 in the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s Slow Summer Stay II: Lakes at the Library of Congress’ Coolidge Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Commissioned by the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, Lakes is scored for a mixed octet of two clarinets, bassoon, percussion, guitar, piano, viola and cello. Lakes follows Czernowin's previous work, Streams, as the second installment of the composer’s Slow Summer Stay series, which concludes in a masterful combination of both works in the upcoming third movement, Upstream. Streams was premiered in April by Steven Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Czernowin describes Slow Summer Stay in detail:

Streams and Lakes are written for the same mixed octet and use mostly the same material, which is all about movement (Streams) or stillness (Lakes) in and out of the passage of time. The materials are organized so differently that they shift their meaning in this sense when they move from Lakes to Streams. The culmination of the series is in the piece Upstream. This is a piece for two octets in which the two pieces are placed over each other so that the simultaneous/non-simultaneous presentation and cueing of the two pieces creates a loose palindromic canon.

A pre-concert conversation takes place in the Library of Congress' Whittall Pavilion with Czernowin and musicians of Orchestra 2001. The evening’s program also features performances of George Crumb’s Night of the Four Moons and Voices from the Heartland with soprano Ann Crumb and baritone Patrick Mason. 

For more information on Chaya Czernowin, please visit www.schott-music.com.

To learn more about the Library of Congress concert, visit www.loc.gov.

Chaya Czernowin
Slow Summer Stay II: Lakes (2012)
for eight players
2cl.bsn-perc-gtr-pno-va.vc
10’

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