The FNM 2005-2006 Concert Season
Tango Explosion!
October 14, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Wieden + Kennedy
224 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Special guest: Tango Pacifico with Alex Krebs
In the midst of Portland's Ninth Annual TangoFest, guests Tango Pacifico and tango master Alex Krebs will join Fear No Music for a program of tangos old and new, from classic works of Osvaldo Pugliese and Jose Bragato, to the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla, and the contemporary works of Joseph Waters and Paul Desenne.
Come be seduced by the inimitably sensuous sounds of Piazzolla, witness the world premiere of I Want to Have Sex with You by Joseph Waters (for strings, percussion, piano, and theremin!), and even take a few steps on stage if you wish, led by tanguero and bandoneonist Alex Krebs.
For more information about the Portland TangoFest (October 12-16), visit Clay's Dance Studio.
"An unknown fragrance, an unsleeping bird" (Messiaen)
February 3, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Wieden + Kennedy
224 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Special guest: Rebecca Rischin
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Luciano Berio: Naturale (Su melodie siciliane)
Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbbuk
Fear No Music presents music of the Beyond, in three masterful and profound compositions spanning the second half of the twentieth century.
Don't miss this chance to hear Messiaen's mystical and overwhelming Quartet , with its "cluster of rainbows for the angel who announces the end of time"; Berio's "transcriptions" of Sicilian folk songs, for viola, percussion, and tape, an "impossible utopia" in which modern composition and popular art are united; and Golijov's attempted reconstruction (for string quartet) of the lost music of a (perhaps imaginary) collection of apocryphal psalms, described by Franz Kafka as a "broken song played on a shattered cymbalom."
Preconcert lecture by guest clarinetist Rebecca Rischin, author of For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet.
The Many Faces of China
April 21, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Wieden + Kennedy
224 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Special guests: Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch
John Oliver, Purple Lotus Bud
Jin Zhang, No Rush
Additional selections to be announced
Mei Han, groundbreaking virtuoso on the Chinese zheng (the 21-string long zither), and Randy Raine-Reusch, composer and multi-instrumentalist (with a collection of over 700 rare and unique world instruments), have created a radical new repertoire, combining five thousand years of Chinese musical traditions with those of New Music, World Music, and Jazz.
Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch will be joined by the musicians of Fear No Music in a program of commissions, original compositions, and improvisation that draws equally on the wellsprings of ancient tradition and a contemporary experimental aesthetic.
Hearing the Future
May 21, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis and Clark College
Photo courtesy Oregon Public Broadcasting
For the season's final concert, Fear No Music presents student works in the culmination of our annual Young Composers Project.
Currently sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, this innovative program gathers young composers (grades 6-12) from around Oregon for workshops over a nine-month period. During the workshops, the student composers develop their compositional ideas, experiment with orchestration, and have their works professionally performed and recorded. Since its inception in 1997, the project has resulted in composition winners at both regional and national levels.
Hear the latest works from the startlingly creative minds of the Young Composers Project, the Messiaens and Golijovs of tomorrow, right here, today!