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Item COMPOSERS' FORUM Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:00 p.m. Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall(Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 2004-11-18) Kuspa, Jordan; Cornell, Philip John; Gu, Jiena; Poteat, Angelique, 1986-; Partain, Randolph L.; Barton, Jacob, 1985-; Pencil, David; Beecher, Lembit; Vassiliev, Sergei (clarinet); Parkhurst, Bryan (harp); Merritt, Edward (double bass); Laude, Benjamin (piano); Richmond, Leslie (flute); Esparza, Eric (tenor); Smith, Cameron (piano); Connelly, Brian (piano); Walstrom, Audrey (mezzo-soprano and voice); Li, Kenneth (piano); Duerr, Kelly (voice); Estridge, Colm (voice); Rogotzke, Valerie (voice); Tarkington, Meghan (voice); Taylor, Raines (voice); Bell, Brandon (percussion); Gould, Grant (percussion); Lassell, Nathan (percussion); West, David (percussion); Leas, Ashleigh (flute); Poteat, Angelique (bass clarinet); Reid, Jennifer (contrabassoon); Li, Peng (cello)Program: Kelevsma: a ritual piece for clarinet, harp, and double bass / Randolph L. Partain -- Sonatinissima! / Jordan Kuspa -- Coastal Meander / Angelique Poteat -- foum, or Xenharmonic Variations on a Theme by Mozart / Jacob Barton (b. 1985) -- She Walks in Beauty / David Pencil -- And The Moon Spun Round like a Top / Lembit Beecher (b. 1980) -- Three Stoic Songs set to Akhmatova Poems / Philip Cornell -- Chases the Sun / Jiena Gu.Item DANIEL SEDGWICK Composer MASTER'S RECITAL Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:00 p.m., Room 1133 Alice Pratt Brown Hall(Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 2005-02-26) Sedgwick, Daniel; Beecher, Lembit; Sedgwick, Daniel (piano); Landon, Elizabeth (flute); DeMartino, Louis (bass clarinet); Macelaru, Cristian (violin); Humphreys, Jennifer (cello); West, David (marimba); Buchman, Rachel (voice); Macelaru, Cristian (violin); Craypo, Rian (bassoon); Jones, Abigail (bassoon); Muña, Michael (bassoon); Xie, Fei (bassoon)Playlist: Dance Derailed / Daniel Sedgwick -- Bird Moon Raccoon: Wait Till the Moon is Full / Daniel Sedgwick -- Four Fragments for Bassoon Quartet / Daniel Sedgwick -- Dan's Dots / Daniel Sedgwick -- Bird Moon Raccoon: The Dead Bird / Daniel Sedgwick -- Dan's Pots / Daniel Sedgwick -- Indiscriminate Music for Bassoon Quartet / Daniel Sedgwick -- Bird Moon Raccoon: Goodnight Moon / Daniel Sedgwick.Item Don't go there(2005) Beecher, Lembit; Al-Zand, KarimDon't Go There is a seven minute long piece for full orchestra composed during the spring of 2005. It has a simple and transparent form. The piece opens with a fast but subdued murmuring section that grows quickly to a climax. This leads into a slow, melodic B section. The A section returns but only after a strange detour through a new harmonic and textural world. The second A section grows to a crashing climax which is followed by brief, slow coda—a memory of the slow melody from the B section. Like most of my music, Don't Go There draws inspiration from many different, and sometimes opposing extra-musical sources. But I think that two principal images were particularly important to me during the compositional process. One is that of the Pacific Ocean, which was a few miles down the road from the house I grew up in. The other image, a more abstract one, is that of urban life. Where is “there” exactly? I am actually not sure. Perhaps it is in the loud, registrally extreme chords near the end of the piece, or perhaps in the surprising c, d, e-flat cluster that occurs right before the return to the A section. But wherever “there” is, we only get a brief glimpse of it, before returning to the world we are used to.Item LEMBIT BEECHER Composer MASTER'S RECITAL Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall(Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 2004-10-31) Beecher, Lembit; Beecher, Lembit (composer); Rogotzke, Valerie (mezzo-soprano); Liu, Francis (violin); Sasaki, Maiko (clarinet); Glennon, Catherine (piano); Thoms, Sonja (oboe); Gagne, Virginie (violin); Sasaki, Maiko (clarinet); Mimaki, Kana (piano); Humphreys, Jennifer (cello); Connelly, Brian (piano); Leas, Ashleigh (flute); DeMartino, Louis (clarinet); Davies, Kyra (violin); Rowoldt, Seth (percussion); Sedgwick, Daniel (piano)Program: Duets / Lembit Beecher -- Rug Beating Music / Lembit Beecher -- Night Movements / Lembit Beecher -- The Wild Exotic Dreams of Mortimer Johnson / Lembit Beecher -- Waltz / Lembit Beecher -- And the Moon Spun Round Like a Top / Lembit Beecher -- Landscapes / Lembit Beecher.Item SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A concert of thesis works by recent graduates: Lembit Beecher, Huay-Ming Ng, and David Wightman Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:00 p.m. Stude Concert Hall(Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 2006-02-23) Wightman, David, 1977-; Beecher, Lembit; Ng, Huay-Ming, 1970-; Myssyk, Daniel; Rachleff, Larry (music director); Shepherd School Symphony OrchestraProgram: Oh No You Didn't / David Wightman (b.1977) -- Don't Go There / Lembit Beecher (b.1980) -- Strike! / Huay-Ming Ng (b. 1970).Item SONJA THOMS Oboe MASTER'S RECITAL Saturday, October 30, 2004 3:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall(Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 2004-10-30) Thoms, Hollis, 1948-; Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856; Pasculli, Antonino, 1842-1924; Beecher, Lembit; Thoms, Sonja (oboe); Mimaki, Kana (piano)Program: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op.166 / Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) -- Rug Beating Music / Lembit Beecher (b. 1980) -- Psalm 32, Op.68 / Hollis Thoms (b. 1948) -- Three Romances, Op.94 / Robert Schumann (1810-1856) -- Ricordo di Napoli / Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924).