Tuesday, December 8, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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Continuum at Americas Society. Photo by Arturo Sanchez

The award-winning ensemble presents brilliant, arresting new music from Canada scarcely heard on this side of the border. This program focuses on the younger generations, offering the unique voices of native-born and immigrant composers, including the Continuum commission, Blind Flower, by Farangis Nurulla-Khoja. Internationally renowned Continuum, directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, is one of the country’s leading new-music ensembles and a frequent guest of Music of the Americas. Continuum's signature Retrospective Series has been a key part of New York's musical life for over forty years and has been praised for introducing New York to unknown extraordinary composers from around the world. Continuum has recorded on several labels and is broadcast extensively by national and European media outlets.







Program:

Michael Oesterle	Sunspot Letters for oboe, violin, viola, cello U.S. Premiere
Linda Catlin Smith	Mois qui tremblais for violin, piano, bass drum N.Y. Premiere
Andrew Staniland	Blue for unaccompanied mezzo-soprano and piano resonance
Ana Sokolovic	portrait parle for violin, cello, piano U.S. Premiere
Farangis Nurulla-Khoja	Blind Flower for voice and ensemble N.Y. Premiere - written for Continuum
Jocelyn Morlock	Curvilinear for solo accordion U.S. Premiere
Melissa Hui	Wish You Were Here for ensemble N.Y. Premiere
Paul Frehner	Slowdown for piano-6 hands U.S. Premiere

For more information about Continuum and their programs, please visit their website www.continuum-ensemble-ny.org.

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In-kind support for this concert provided by Continuum®.

The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is presented with the generous support of MetLife Foundation. The Fall 2009 Music Program is also supported in part by Carlos Enrique Gill Ramirez, Teresa A. L. de Bulgheroni, Bolivian-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc., and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In-kind support is provided by Alejandro Cordero and the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.
 
The Music Education program is generously supported by Citi Foundation.