Society for New Music Publicizes 51st Season

The world premiere of a chamber piece by Syracuse College Professor Natalie Draper is among the many highlights of the Society for New Music (SNM)’s 2022-23 season.

The premiere is one in all six applications that SNM is presenting this educational yr all through Central New York, encompassing a variety of sounds, kinds and compositional scenes.

Based in 1971, SNM is the one year-round new music group in New York state exterior of Manhattan. The Syracuse-based nonprofit is also a longtime College companion, with college students, school and alumni yearly collaborating in 30-some concert events and workshops. For extra info and to buy tickets, go to societyfornewmusic.org.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday, Sept. 9
Second efficiency of “House Burial“ opera by Charles Lupia ’77, L’91
CNY Jazz Central (441 East Washington St., Syracuse)
7:30 p.m.
Lupia makes his stage debut with “House Burial,” a one-act chamber opera based mostly on Robert Frost’s “The Demise of the Employed Man.” Towards the backdrop of a familial homecoming, Lupia considers themes of energy, friendship, guilt and redemption. The manufacturing stars soprano Laura Enslin, tenor Dan Fields ’17 and bass-baritone David Neal, accompanied by pianist Sar Robust G’98, violinist Jonathan Hwang and cellist Zachary Candy—all below the path of Heather Buchman. The primary half of the all-American program options vocal picks by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Paulus and Judith Cloud.

Sunday, Oct. 2
“Evolutions: Music by the Subsequent Technology”
St. Paul’s Episcopal (220 East Fayette St., Syracuse)
4 p.m.

Natalie Draper

“Evolutions is a three-movement work exploring gradual change, the concept that one thing can evolve out of nothing,” explains Natalie Draper, an assistant professor within the Setnor School of Music in Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Scored for an prolonged Pierrot Ensemble (i.e., flute, clarinets, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion), this system’s title work begins with a groove, which Draper reworks by means of varied instrumental colours and registers. The wave-like second motion swells earlier than receding right into a lush, choralesque finale.

Sean O’Loughlin

Additionally on this system are “Floating Factors“ by Ryan Carter and “Pointillism” by Symphoria Principal Pops Conductor Sean O’Loughlin ’95, each commissioned by SNM. “Minnaloushe” by Alexandros Darna completes this system. Darna is the 2022 winner of the Brian M. Israel Prize, co-sponsored by SNM and the New York Federation of Music Golf equipment.

The live performance is carried out by members of the Society Gamers.

Friday, Nov. 4
Music from the Society of Composers Inc., Area II Convention
Park Central Presbyterian Church (504 East Fayette St., Syracuse)
7:30 p.m.
SNM groups up with the Setnor Faculty, host of the Society of Composers Inc. (SCI)’s Area II Convention, for a night of latest music by established and rising stars. This system options works by SCI members Jiyoun Chung, Wenbin Lyu, Paul Novak, Charles Peck, Paul Richards, Sami Seif and Octavio Vazquez.

Friday, Feb. 17-Sunday, Feb. 19
Annual “Imaginative and prescient of Sound” efficiency
Syracuse, Geneva and Rochester (venues TBA)
Occasions TBA

Christopher Cresswell

An SNM custom for 17 years, “Imaginative and prescient of Sound” presents a night of authentic music, dance and motion by regional artists. The Society Gamers carry out works by Christopher Cresswell ’11, former Syracuse professor Sally Lamb McCune, Ryan Chase, Carrie Magin, Mark Olivieri and Doc Woods.

Sunday, March 26
Syracuse Symposium live performance “Restore Works”
Hergenhan Auditorium (Newhouse 3), Syracuse College
2 p.m.
SNM marks Syracuse Symposium’s yearlong theme of “Restore: Retelling, Resisting, Reimaging” with the world premiere of a chunk by former Syracuse professor James Gordon Williams. Rounding out this system are “Superb Mahalia” by Stacy Garrop; “Oh, Freedom” by visitor composer Anthony R. Inexperienced; and “I advised you” by Flannery Cunningham.

Sunday, April 23
Music by SNM prize-winners
St. Paul’s Episcopal (220 East Fayette St., Syracuse)
4 p.m.
SNM concludes its 51^st season with new music by prize-winning composers. Featured are SNM-commissioned composer Steve Ferre’s “Shadows of Innocence,” winner of the Robert Avalon Worldwide Competitors for Composers; Octavio Vazquez’s “Migrant,” co-commissioned by SNM and the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts; and 2022 Israel/Pellman prize-winner Christian-Frédéric Bloquert’s “Serenade: Recomposed.”

SNM is the brainchild of Neva Pilgrim, who co-founded the profitable nonprofit in 1971. Not even a worldwide pandemic has deterred SNM from persevering with to fund commissions, current concert events and workshops, and acknowledge rising composers. “We’re excited in regards to the subsequent 50 years,” says Pilgrim, who has served as an artist-in-residence at Syracuse and Colgate universities. “The success of the Society for New Music is a testomony to not solely the laborious work of many individuals, but in addition the rising reputation of up to date classical music.”

Pilgrim, who additionally has produced and hosted “Recent Ink” on WCNY-FM for the previous 26 years, sums up the SNM aesthetic with three phrases: “Selection. Creativeness. Originality.”

Common tickets are $20. Pupil and senior citizen tickets are $15. Viewers members 18 and below are freed from cost.

“Restore Works” is free to Syracuse college students, school and workers with ID.