'Yale in New York' Announces 2011-2012 Season at Carnegie Hall

The Yale School of Music (YSM) announces its fifth season of Yale in New York, the acclaimed and unique series that brings together distinguished faculty-famous soloists among them-with the ongoing legacy of exceptional alumni and current students on the stages of Carnegie Hall. Each concert displays the deep, creative, and exciting collaborations that are the heart and history of the Yale School of Music.

From December 4, 2011 - April 1, 2012, four concerts will feature music spanning continents and centuries:
• 20th-century vocal masterpieces from Britten and Walton
• a Prokofiev mini-marathon with the complete piano sonatas performed in one evening, celebrating Boris Berman's new performance edition
• a program led by the great early music specialist William Christie
• an extraordinary finale of music for low instruments from Schütz, Mozart, Penderecki and Gubaidulina.

YALE IN NEW YORK: 2011-2012 PROGRAM DETAILS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 7:30PM
ZANKEL HALL AT Carnegie Hall
"VOCAL BRITAIN: BRITTEN'S SERENADE & WALTON'S THE BEAR"
Dramatic and poetic music from Benjamin Britten and William Walton:
Two pieces, contrasting in manner but equal in richness.
Yale faculty members James Taylor, tenor, and William Purvis, horn, will be joined by graduate quartet-in-residence Linden String Quartet for Britten's Serenade, a beautiful, haunting exploration of both the mysteries of night and the expressive capabilities of the noble French horn. In the second half, Walton scholar and New Haven Symphony Orchestra music director William Boughton will conduct Walton's one-act extravaganza The Bear, a farcical opera based on a story by Chekhov. The performance will feature singers of Yale Opera, both students and recent alumni, under the artistic direction of Doris Yarick Cross, as well as members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale. This performance coincides with a 4-year "Walton Project" co-hosted by the New Haven Symphony and Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, whose collection includes 98% of Walton's original manuscripts.

Tickets at $15-$25 can be purchased after October 4 at the Carnegie Hall box office (57th Street and 7th Ave.), by calling CarnegieCharge at 212/247-7800, or at www.carnegiehall.org. Student and senior discounts are available.

PROGRAM/PLAYERS:
Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings (1943)
James Taylor, tenor
William Purvis, horn
Linden String Quartet

William Walton: The Bear, An extravaganza in one act (1967)
Libretto by Paul Dehn, based on the play by Anton Chekhov of the same title
William Boughton, conductor
Singers of Yale Opera and members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale

LISTEN:
James Taylor sings Bach
Britten's Serenade
An excerpt from The Bear

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 5:30PM & 8:30PM
WEILL RECITAL HALL
"THE COMPLETE PROKOFIEV PIANO SONATAS"
This concert marks the publication of a new edition of the Prokofiev Sonatas, edited by Boris Berman,
Professor in the Practice of Piano and Artistic Director of the Horowitz Piano Series at Yale.
The entire cycle of Prokofiev sonatas, in two recitals on one day, in the intimate surroundings of Weill Recital Hall. This day of music will be the culmination of two undertakings: not only Boris Berman's bilingual (English-Chinese) editorial project that corrects numerous errors that have crept in through the legacy of recordings, but of a department-wide, highly competitive contest among the piano students (the winners will perform the sonatas in concert). Boris Berman is chairman of the Yale piano department and one of the world's most significant Prokofiev specialists. He is the founder of the Prokofiev Society of America, the first pianist to record all of the composer's solo works (Chandos), and the author of Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer (Yale University Press).

Tickets at $15 for each recital can be purchased after October 17 at the Carnegie Hall box office (57th Street and 7th Ave.), by calling CarnegieCharge at 212/247-7800, or at www.carnegiehall.org. Student and senior discounts are available.

PROGRAM/PLAYERS:
5:30pm recital:
No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1
No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
No. 5 in C major
No. 9 in C major, Op. 103
No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29

8:30pm recital (The War Sonatas):
No. 3 in A minor, "From Old Notebooks," Op. 28
No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84
No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83

pianists to be selected in YSM competition

LISTEN:
Boris Berman discussing studying piano at Yale
Prokofiev Sonata No. 6, 1st Movement
Prokofiev Sonata No. 7, 3rd Movement

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 7:30PM
ZANKEL HALL
"WILLIAM CHRISTIE"
William Christie earned his MM degree from the Yale School of Music in 1969. Now the Baroque specialist and founder of Les Arts Florissants returns to conduct students of his alma mater, members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale.
William Christie returns to his alma mater to conduct members of the Yale Philharmonia and other forces. The Philharmonia was last heard at Carnegie Hall on the Yale in New York series when the great Krzysztof Penderecki led them in a concert of his own music, and before that when Reinbert de Leeuw guest conducted them in a brilliant performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie. The New York Times raved, "The performance was sensational: well prepared, solidly and precisely executed, and rippling with high-energy percussion and brass playing and a fluid interplay of polished strings as well as winds."

Tickets at $15-$25 can be purchased after January 2, 2012 at the Carnegie Hall box office (57th Street and 7th Ave.), by calling CarnegieCharge at 212/247-7800, or at www.carnegiehall.org. Student and senior discounts are available.

PROGRAM/PLAYERS TBA

LISTEN:
William Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants in Rameau

SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 7:30PM
ZANKEL HALL
"DE PROFUNDIS: THE DEEP END"
The rich sounds of the bass clef;
music in the underground hall that will offer a challenge to the rumbles of the subway.
Usually found supporting melody and solo lines in the violins, trumpets and high woodwinds, the cello, bassoon, tuba, and even some exotic instruments now have their day on center stage. Composers through the centuries have relished the expressive sounds of these instruments, and an all-star ensemble of Yale faculty, alumni and students will share the honors: Frank Morelli, bassoon; Ole Akahoshi, Arnold Choi (2011 MM), Ying Zhang (2011 MM) and Mihai Marica (2008 AD), cellos; students from Don Palma's double bass studio, Scott Hartmann's trombone studio, and Mike Roylance's tuba studio; the conductor Ransom Wilson, as well as special guests. The pieces include a Schütz work for four sackbuts and bass voice (rarely performed in the original instrumentation), Mozart's duo for bassoon and cello, the idiomatic Penderecki Capriccio for solo tuba, and Gubaidulina's five-movement Bassoon Concerto (Gubaidulina was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University in 2009).

Tickets at $15-$25 can be purchased after February 6, 2012 at the Carnegie Hall box office (57th Street and 7th Ave.), by calling CarnegieCharge at 212/247-7800, or at www.carnegiehall.org. Student and senior discounts are available.

PROGRAM/PLAYERS:
Wolfgang Amadeus[?] Mozart: Duo for bassoon and cello in B-flat major, K. 292
Krzysztof Penderecki: Serenata for three cellos (2008) and Capriccio for solo tuba (1980)
Anton Bruckner: Two Aequale for three trombones (1847)
Jacob Druckman: Valentine for solo double bass (1969)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)
Heinrich Schütz: Fili mi, Absalon for four sackbuts and bass voice, SWV 269

Frank Morelli, bassoon
Ole Akahoshi, cello
Arnold Choi (YSM '11MM), cello
Ying Zhang (YSM '11MM), cello
Mihai Marica (YSM '08AD), cello
Ransom Wilson, conductor
with additional student and alumni performers