RAM Presents Premieres and Works by Galindo, Fetherolf, Barash, Schultz and Górecki

New York-based composer and performer collective Random Access Music (RAM), proudly presents its free 2016-17 season-opening concert, Random Number One, on Friday, December 2nd at 8pm at Broom Tree Theatre. The program includes two world premieres by RAM composers Gilbert Galindo and David Fetherolf featuring music for clarinet, cello, and piano with pianist David Broome, cellist Kate Dillingham, and clarinetist Thomas Piercy. Works by RAM composers Guy Barash and Allen Schultz alongside Henryk Górecki's masterpiece, Lerchenmusik, round out the evening's program. Complimentary Wine will be available on this festive occasion!

Program:

Allen Schultz: as big as alone for clarinet and piano (2011)

David Fetherolf: Fool me once for clarinet and cello (2016) World Premiere

INTERMISSION

Henryk Górecki: Lerchenmusik for clarinet, cello, and piano (1984, third movement)

Gilbert Galindo: My soul waits for piano (2016) World Premiere

Friday, December 2, 2016 at 8pm

Broom Tree Theatre, 23-35 Broadway, Astoria, NY

N/Q to Broadway

Free Admission

www.ram-nyc.org

www.queensnewmusicfestival.org

About the program:

RAM composers write for the RAM players, and together they present a program of evocative works for clarinet, cello, and piano.

as big as alone by Allen Schultz was inspired by the fury of the blizzard that struck the East Coast in December, 2010 as well as the calm that preceded and followed it. David Fetherolf's new work Fool me once was written for Thomas Pierce and Kate Dillingham, two instrumentalists whose artistry and commitment to contemporary music is unbounded. The work, episodic in nature, is a somewhat raucous, often overlapping, rarely calm conversation between the instruments befitting our current political season. The final movement of Górecki's Lerchenmusik references the opening of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, the music of Messiaen, and a "bird" motive that derives from the name of the commissioner, Louise Lerche-Lerchenborg (Lerche means lark). In My soul waits by Gilbert Galindo gentle abstract expressions are contrasted by meditative silence like a rapid movement leading to a tender reminiscence.

Upcoming:

Random Brass

Thursday, March 23rd at 8pm at Broom Tree Theatre
Friday, March 24th at 8pm at Tenri Cultural Institute

John Gattis (horn), Andy Kozar (trumpet), and William Lang (trombone) perform works by RAM composers Barash, Galindo, and White.

2017 Queens New Music Festival

May 19th-21st at The Secret Theatre

Featuring large scale works by RAM composers

Other important dates:

- Call for Scores for the March brass concert in December

- Call for Proposals for Queens New Music Festival 2017 Deadline: January 15, 2017
http://ram-nyc.org/?p=1393

LOCATIONS:

Broom Tree Theatre
23-35 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11106

Tenri Cultural Institute
43 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

Secret Theatre, Main Stage
4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

RAM Composers:

Having been praised as evocative, highly inventive, and of undeniable power, the composers of RAM represent a broad spectrum of aesthetics, styles, and voices and revel in music of all types. The RAM composers believe in the music of their fellow musicians and are committed to supporting and presenting one another's music, both in and outside of RAM. RAM's eclectic combination of composers reflects the rich and varied landscape that is American music in the 21st century. The RAM composers are Guy Barash, Stephen Cabell, David Fetherolf, Gilbert Galindo, B. Allen Schulz, Stefan Weisman, and Frances White.