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World Premiere of Fred Lerdahl's Time and Again with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Apr. 01, 2015

World Premiere of Fred Lerdahl's <em>Time and Again</em> with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Roberto Abbado leads the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of Fred Lerdahl’s Time and Again on April 23. The performance takes place at Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN, with additional performances on April 24 and 25.

The work is Lerdahl’s third to be premiered by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the first two being Waves (1989) and Spirals (2007). Lerdahl scores the new work for a chamber orchestra similar to that of a typical Beethoven symphony in order to evoke “the transparency of the Classical ensemble.” Of the work, Lerdahl writes:

Time and Again conveys my preoccupation with musical time—with pushing it forward, disrupting it, moving it in multiple speeds simultaneously, and bringing it to rest. It also conveys my proclivity to circle back through musical material in increasingly complex ways, so that time both repeats and accumulates. Time and Again passes through three such cycles, each comprised of musical ideas that seem heterogeneous yet possess underlying similarities.

Time and Again has a twin, the violin-cello duo Give and Take. The two works were composed at the same time and cover the same musical course despite contrasting sound worlds and textures. One piece is the ink drawing, the other the oil painting.

Visit thespco.org for details on the performances.

For more information on Fred Lerdahl, visit schott-music.com.

Fred Lerdahl
Time and Again (2014)
for chamber orchestra
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15’

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