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The Third London Festival of American Music

30 September - 7 October 2010

Presented by The Mornington Trust

The Lontano American Festival Car

Lontano's Biennial Festival - created in 2006 - explores and celebrates the work of major American composers and reflects the diversity of style that is so characteristic of contemporary American music today. The festival programme was put together by Lontano's Music Director Odaline de la Martinez, one of the most enterprising musical personalities on the British music scene and the first woman to conduct a complete BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

With a wide selection of well-known and successful composers, the 2010 festival reflected new music in America today, as well as diversity of gender, generation and geography. Some of the composers Aaron Copland, Charles Ives and John Harbison are Deans of American music. Others, though well known in the States are rarely heard outside their native North America, and were selected specifically to treat UK audiences to a broader spectrum of the best of American composers today. Many of the composers featured attended the festival.

The festival opened with an "Open Recording" on 30th September with Lontano and the BBC Singers at St. Giles Cripplegate, to launch a new CD of choral music by Daniel Asia. The disc is released by the American label, Summit Records in the UK and subsequently in the States. The concert also included a new work by the Boston composer Peter Child. An additional CD of Peter Child's chamber music was launched by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd) on 7th October during the last concert.

Pieces by highly respected composers like Roberto Sierra and Marjorie Merryman were performed in the concerts alongside works by emerging composers such as Carlos Sanchez Gutierrez, Arlene Elizabeth Sierra and Kati Agócs. Most of the pieces presented were UK or European premieres.

Download the complete leaflet as a PDF

Most of the composers' names in the listing below are in red - click on them to visit their web sites.


Full Details

Opening Concert
St Giles Cripplegate, Fore Street, London EC2Y 8DA
30 September 2010 at 7:30 pm
AMERICAN VOICES - OPEN RECORDING

LONTANO and the BBC SINGERS, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez, Olivia Robinson (soprano)

Daniel Asia Out of More
Purer than purest pure
John Harbison But Mary Stood
Peter Child Song of Liberty
 

FREE admission

A new CD of choral music by Daniel Asia was launched by Summit Records at this concert.


Programme II
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
2 October 2010 at 7:30 pm

Nadine Mortimer Smith: Soprano
Tomas Lisz: Piano

Aaron Copland Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson
Charles Ives Tom Sails Away
Ned Rorem The Silver Swan
 
Libby Larsen Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII

Programme III
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
5 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
CON ACENTO LATINO

LONTANO, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez

Arlene Elizabeth Sierra A Conflict of Opposites
Armando Bayolo Hermandad
Roberto Sierra Recordando una Melodia Olvidada
 
Carlos Sanchez Gutierrez Trio Variations
Carlos Carrillo Will the Quiet Times Come
Roberto Sierra Turner

Programme IV
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
6 October 2010 at 7:30 pm

Rowland Sutherland: Flute
Mary Dullea: Piano

David N. Baker Inspiration
Roberto Sierra Eros
Elena Ruehr Two Preludes for Piano
Bruce Stark American Suite
 
Arlene Elizabeth Sierra The Art of Lightness (World Premiere)
David Maslanka Duo for flute and piano
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Three Miniatures

Programme V
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
7 October 2010 at 7:30 pm
PIERROT PLUS-MINUS

LONTANO, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez
Rebecca Lodge: Mezzo-Soprano

Joan Tower Petroushskates
Peter Child Viola Sonata
Fred Lerdahl Marches
 
Marjorie Merryman Duomo
Kati Agócs Immutable Dreams
Peter Child Rilke Songs
 

A new CD of Peter Child's chamber music was launched by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd) at this concert.


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