Sam Nichols, director
Preconcert Discussion from 6:15–7:45 pm with Empyrean director Sam Nichols.
Program
Philip Acimovic (Ph.D. composition ‘18): New Work WORLD PREMIERE. Annea Lockwood: Immersion. Composed by New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood, Immersion (1998) for marimba and two tam-tams was written for Dominic Donato and Frank Cassara and arranged for the Talujon Percussion Quartet in 2001. It grew out of a fascination with the rich beating frequencies generated by long cluster rolls in the low register of the marimba and the interaction between the marimba and a quartz bowl gong tuned to F. Pablo Oritz: New Work WORLD PREMIERE with video by Daniel Godsil (Ph.D. composition ‘21) and UC Davis students. Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (Part I) with Christian Kiefer, voice. Composed for a flexible number of  collaborative performers, Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together was written in response to the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility. Steve Reich: Pendulum Music performed in the Noda Lobby. The program ends with Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music (1968) in a performance staged by Alysa Banks (B.A., human development, with minors in music and sociology ’21), in the lobby of the Pitzer Center.