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FearNoMusic: Tomorrow Is My Turn: Headliner Concert

April 26, 2021 @ 7:30 pm

Virtual Concert

$10 – $25 RSVP required: $25/household; $10 students/seniors

WHEN:     Premiere broadcast at 7:30pm PT, Monday, April 26th

(available for 72 hours following the initial broadcast)

WHERE:   Available to stream on Fear No Music’s YouTube channel

COST:     $25 per household; $10 student and seniors

HOW:       Visit fearnomusic.org to RSVP, donate, and receive concert links

WHAT:    

Fear No Music’s season headliner features All-Star musicians Inés Voglar-Belgique (violin), Nancy Ives (cello), Michael Roberts (percussion), and musicians from BRAVO! Youth Orchestras in performance broadcast from The Old Church.

Jessie Montgomery, Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin – an homage to the tradition of J.S. Bach’s solo violin Sonatas and Partitas, his Suites for solo cello and the six solo violin Sonatas of Eugène Ysaÿe

Marcos Balter, Descarga for solo percussion – a tribute to Balter’s Brazilian heritage, and the enormous percussion ensembles that perform during the official carnival parade in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro

James Lee III, Abraham’s Sons (In Memoriam: Trayvon Martin) for solo cello – a reaction to the tragic and unjust death of Trayvon Martin

BRAVO Youth Orchestras, NEW WORK (title TBD) World Premiere – a collective reaction of BRAVO’s student musicians to Nina Simone’s rendition of the yearning ballad, Tomorrow Is My Turn – featuring loops, beat makers, vocal recordings and the incorporation of their own instrumental sounds as well as performance clips from Fear No Music musicians

Daniel Bernard Roumain, Hip Hop Studies and Etudes (selections – surprise rendition) – “these vary greatly in style, from slow, introspective Neo-Classical ruminations to rhythmically complicated, riffy pieces that would not be out of place in a dance club” (Allan Kozinn, New York Times)

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Fear No Music: Tomorrow Is My Turn mini-concert #4 – Jeff Payne, piano

April 5, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

Virtual Concert

Free Donations accepted, registration required.

“A pianist of chameleon abilities,” (The Boston Globe) Jeff Payne offers a chance to hear these tremendously moving works for solo piano:

  • Courtney Bryan: A Presence
  • Margaret Bonds: Troubled Waters
  • Quinn Mason: The Never-Ending Ocean of Identity 

Available for live viewing during the premiere broadcast, and for 48 hours thereafter.

Listen to a preview of the concert with Jeff Payne on the Classical Currents podcast – episode available Friday, April 2nd!

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Fear No Music: “Tomorrow Is My Turn” Mini Concert No. 3: Flutist Amelia Lukas

March 1, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm PST

Virtual Concert

Free Donations accepted, registration required.

Fear No Music premieres their third virtual Mini Concert of the Tomorrow Is My Turn season, featuring flutist Amelia Lukas in dazzling solo performances of music by Black American composers. Known for her especially pure tone and passionate performances, Lukas offers “a fine balance of virtuosity and poetry.” (The New York Times) Recently appointed as a Powell Flutes Artist, Lukas “excels at bringing drama and fire to hyper-modernist works with challenging extended techniques.” (Oregon ArtsWatch) This uniquely varied and flashy mini program beautifully showcases her wide range of skill and color.

With the Tomorrow Is My Turn season, Fear No Music offers a small glimpse into the breadth and depth of phenomenal music being created by Black artists across the nation. Thoughtfully curated for an optimal online listening experience, this Mini Concert is thirty minutes in length, and is FREE with RSVP; available for streaming on Fear No Music’s YouTube channel.

RSVP Here: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=117686

Program:

Valerie Coleman, Danza de la Mariposa (2008)

This rhythmic, melodic tone poem gives the listener a tour of South America. Inspired by the various species of butterflies inhabiting the continent, Danza de la Mariposa is full of rich color, with butterflies dancing and weaving in syncopated rhythms while alternating between the feel of 3 over 4 throughout. 

Carlos Simon, Move It  (2020) for alto flute

From the Composer’s Note: The pandemic of COVID-19 has continued to influence my social, professional and personal life in ways that I never imagined…. This piece is meant to represent my desire to get out MOVE. My intent is to make this piece an imaginary syncopated joy ride. I wanted to explore the percussive and rhythmic nature of flute; something that moves with energy and forward motion. 

Allison Loggins-Hull, Homeland (2018)

From the Composer’s Note:  With so many people throughout the world dealing with tragic domestic issues, I began to think about the meaning of home during a crisis. What does home mean when the land has been destroyed? What does it mean when there’s been a political disaster, or a human disaster? How does a person feel patriotic when they feel unwelcomed at the same time? Homeland is a musical interpretation and exploration of those questions. 

Joshua Mallard, Perennial (2019)

From the Composer’s Note:  Perennial is a work that seeks to repurpose cyclical material by obfuscating and stretching the proportional relationship between each melodic phrase. In some ways, it is also a commentary on my experiences while learning flute. The familiar underpinnings of many older solo flute works has been slightly altered by the use of microtones.

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Fear No Music: “Tomorrow Is My Turn” Mini Concert No. 2: Clarinetist James Shields

February 1, 2021 @ 7:30 pm

Virtual Concert

FREE Donations accepted. Visit website link below to RSVP for concert link.

Fear No Music launches their second virtual Mini Concert of the ​Tomorrow Is My Turn​ season, with intrepid clarinetist James Shields starring in solo performances of music by Black American composers. Known for his dynamism and passion, Shields is Principal Clarinetist with the Oregon Symphony, Co-Artistic Director of Chatter, a core member of 45th Parallel Universe and is also a talented composer. Shields notes, “All three of these pieces were new to me, and they were absolutely fantastic works to familiarize myself with. I think each will prove to be as satisfying and engaging for the listener as they are for the performer.”

With the ​Tomorrow Is My Turn ​season, Fear No Music offers a small glimpse into the breadth and depth of phenomenal music being created by Black artists across the nation. Thoughtfully curated for an optimal online listening experience, this Mini Concert is thirty minutes in length, and is FREE; available for streaming on ​Fear No Music’s YouTube channel​.

Click the link below to RSVP and get the concert link. Concerts are available to view for 48 hours after the initial broadcast.

Program:

Derek Douglas Carter

Derek Douglas Carter, ​A Bite of Chocolate Milk​ ​(2018)​ ​for speaking bass clarinet
dedicated to anyone that feels the labels given to them by society limit them, and seeks to transcend them

from the song ​Chocolate Rain​:

Seldom mentioned on the radio
Build a tent and say the world is dry
History quickly crashing through your veins
Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai
The prisons make you wonder where it went
Zoom the camera out and see the lie

– Tay Zonday


Ed Bland

Ed Bland, ​For Clarinet ​(1964, rev. 1978)

Bland noted, “This 3-minute, whimsical, joyful, atonal piece for unaccompanied clarinet is very idiomatic.” William Powell recorded the work on Cambria Master Recordings and wrote for ​The Clarinet​ journal (September 2017), “​For Clarinet​ is written in a virtuoso style. The four-page piece, though difficult, especially in its rapidly changing rhythms, should be playable by a more advanced high school student or university undergraduate student. This author was very lucky to record ​For Clarinet ​under the composer’s supervision.”


Nicole Mitchell

Nicole Mitchell, ​a much deserved ass whopping ​(2020) for bass clarinet

From performer James Shields: “​a much deserved ass whopping for bass clarinet​ was a really fun piece to tear into, and I enjoyed the opportunity to sharpen up some extended techniques. MItchell even requires the performer to scream through the instrument, which I was more than happy to do at this stage in the pandemic. The bass clarinet has an exceptionally wide range, and Mitchell capitalizes on this by choosing to write predominantly in the lowest and highest ranges that the instrument is capable of. I might be reading into the title a bit too much, but I found myself hearing two voices: an extremely high voiced character pleading for mercy, and a growling lower voice that was committed to dolling out a particular type of punishment.”

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