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Rehearsal of Schoenberg’s “Pierrot lunaire”

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This evening we had an intense and productive rehearsal with the magnificent Lucy Shelton on Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. Here’s a video excerpt from the rehearsal, movements 11. Rote messe and 12. Galgenlied.

Some of us don’t appear in the shot, but the ensemble members are Mimi Stillman, flute, Paul Demers, clarinet, Marc Rovetti, violin, Yumi Kendall, Charles Abramovic, piano.

We’re excited for our “Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60″ project concerts! Please join us Friday, February 3 at 8:00pm at Haverford College and Sunday, February 5 at 3:00pm at Trinity Center for Urban Life, Philadelphia. This program includes Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A Minor and the world premiere of Shulamit Ran’s Moon Songs: A Song Cycle in Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (doubling Piccolo), Cello, and Piano in addition to the Schoenberg. Dolce Suono Ensemble will give its New York debut at Symphony Space on Monday, February 6 at 7:30pm. The program includes 7 of our commissioned works.

Rehearsal video – Lucy Shelton sings Fang Man

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This evening we had an exciting rehearsal with the magnificent Lucy Shelton on Fang Man’s new piece, Song of a Lonely Autumn Night, which we will be premiering at Symphony Space on Monday, February 6. Last season we premiered Mandy’s Song of Sorrow with bass-baritone Eric Owens as part of our “Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60″ project, and this is the second song in a larger cycle of Mandy’s settings in original Chinese of the same poems by Li Bai which Mahler set in Das Lied von der Erde, in German translation by Hans Bethge.

Join us on Monday to hear the entire piece. Our concert, “Dolce Suono Ensemble Commissions and Premieres,” is part of the city-wide Composers Now Festival and features seven of our recent commissioned works. Our star-studded cast also includes composers Richard Danielpour, David Ludwig, Steven Mackey, Stratis Minakakis, Shulamit Ran, Steven Stucky and baritone Randall Scarlata.

DSE artists: Mimi Stillman, flute – Paul Demers, clarinet – Marc Rovetti, violin – Yumi Kendall, cello – Charles Abramovic, piano – Gabriel Globus Hoenich, percussion