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“The River”

ETHELRalph Farris, viola

Dorothy Lawson, cello

Kip Jones, violin

Corin Lee, violin

Robert Mirabal, Native American flute

Monday, February 13, 20177:30 p.m.

Ashurst Hall

PROGRAM

Jay-Red Kip Jones

An Kha Na Robert Mirabal

Tuvan Ride * ETHEL + Robert Mirabal

Tsintskaro Memory * Ralph Farris

Rana Run * Ralph Farris

Clean Dirge, Dirty Dirge Kip Jones

Gat’té * Dorothy Lawson

Moment Mirabal Robert Mirabal

Wi-wa Traditional

Chant * ETHEL + Jeff Peterson

TSOMA * Kip Jones

Peace Calls * ETHEL + Robert Mirabal

* denotes music written especially for this program

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Special thanks to the Hermitage Artist Retreat and Denison University for their direct support of this program and its development.

NOTES ON THIS PROGRAM

Continuing a deeply successful six year collaboration inspired by ceremonies dedicated to theSun, ETHEL and Robert Mirabal, Native American musician, instrument builder, and threetime GRAMMY® Award winner, present their next evolution of the cross-cultural concertexperience. The inspiration this time is Water as the embodiment of Spirit, and its essentialrole in Life on Earth. The audience is immersed in a flow of music, narrative, and ritual thatevokes timeless Native American traditions through contemporary musical artistry. Asdelivered by these master performers, the effect is breathtaking, even ecstatic.

ARTIST PROFILES

Acclaimed as “unfailingly vital” (The New York Times), “brilliant,” “downtown’s reigning stringquartet” (The New Yorker), and “one of the most exciting quartets around” (Strad Magazine),ETHEL invigorates the contemporary music scene with exuberance, intensity, imaginativeprogramming, and exceptional artistry.

At the heart of ETHEL is a quest for a common creative expression that is forged in thecelebration of community. As cultural and musical “pollinators,” the quartet brings itscollaborative discoveries to audiences through multi-dimensional musical repertoire andcommunity engagement.

ETHEL’s 2015-16 season celebrates the diversity of regional American music, anchoredby a national tour of the evening-length ETHEL’s Documerica. Described by The New YorkTimes as “new music bonding with old images in rich, provocative and moving ways,” thisprogram directed by Steve Cosson features montages by acclaimed projection artist DeborahJohnson in concert with commissioned work by Mary Ellen Childs, Ulysses Owens Jr., JaredImpichchaachaaha’ Tate, and James “Kimo” Williams and new music by the members ofETHEL.

ETHEL will tour several critically acclaimed signature programs throughout the season,ranging from The River, a collaboration with Taos Pueblo flutist Robert Mirabal, to anintrospective program Grace, featuring ETHEL’s arrangements of music by Ennio Morriconeand Jeff Buckley. Other highlights include the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner JuliaWolfe’s Blue Dress, commissioned by ETHEL, at National Sawdust; performances of newand existing repertoire as the Resident Ensemble at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’sBalcony Bar; and interdisciplinary activities as Ensemble-in-Residence at DenisonUniversity. While on tour and at home, ETHEL offers in-depth residency and communityoutreach to connect a broad spectrum of audiences and students to its music.

Always striving to demonstrate the unifying power of music, ETHEL has initiatedinnovative collaborations with an extraordinary community of international artists includingDavid Byrne, Bang on a Can, Todd Rundgren, Carlo Mombelli, Ursula Oppens, LoudonWainwright III, STEW, Ensemble Modern, Jill Sobule, Dean Osborne, Howard Levy,Simone Sou, Andrew Bird, Iva Bittová, Colin Currie, Thomas Dolby, Jeff Peterson, OlegFateev, Stephen Gosling, Jake Shimabukuro, Polygraph Lounge, and Vijay Iyer.

From 2004-2014, ETHEL served as the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Grand CanyonMusic Festival’s Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project. The group’s ongoingdedication to working with indigenous people and music culminated in the 2010 release ofOshtali: Music for String Quartet (Thunderbird Records), the first commercial recording ofAmerican Indian student works.

ETHEL’s debut CD was a Billboard magazine “Best Recording of 2003.” Its second CD,Light, ranked #3 on Amazon.com’s “Best of 2006” and #5 on WYNC’s “Best of 2006 ListenerPoll.” The group’s most recent CD, Heavy, was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim.Recordings of ETHEL’s Documerica and The River were released in Fall 2015. ETHEL hasappeared as a guest artist on many albums, including The Paha Sapa Give-Back by JeromeKitzke, (Innova, 2014); Cold Blue Two (Cold Blue Music, 2012); Glow by Kaki King (VelourRecordings, 2012); Blue Moth by Anna Clyne (Tzadik, 2012); A Map of the Floating City byThomas Dolby (Redeye Label, 2012); The Duke by Joe Jackson (Razor & Tie, 2012); John theRevelator: A Mass for Six Voices by Phil Kline (Cantaloupe Music, 2008) with vocal groupLionheart; and the GRAMMY® Award-winning Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Musicof Coltrane and Hartman (Concord Records, 2009).

Over the past five years, ETHEL has premiered 100+ new works by 20th- and 21st-century composers including: Phil Kline’s Space at the gala reopening of Alice Tully Hall;Radio by Osvaldo Golijov at the debut of WNYC Radio’s Jerome L. Greene Space; ETHEL’sTruckStop®: The Beginning and ETHEL’s Documerica at BAM’s Next Wave Festival; ETHELFair: The Songwriters at opening night of Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors; Wait for Green withchoreographer Annie-B Parson commissioned by Arts Brookfield; HonBiBaekSan by DoheeLee at Meet the Composer’s 3-City Dash Festival; and Quartet for Queen Mab by MissyMazzoli at Miller Theater. ETHEL’s HomeBaked series has commissioned and premieredworks by emerging NYC composers Andy Akiho, Hannis Brown, Anna Clyne, LainieFefferman, Dan Friel, Judd Greenstein, Matt Marks, and Ulysses Owens Jr. to date. ETHELhas debuted original scores in combination with new choreography by AleksandraVrebalov/Dusan Tynek Dance Company and Son Lux/Gina Gibney Dance; and works bycontemporary music luminaries such as Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Zorn, Evan Ziporyn,Steve Reich, John King, Raz Mesinai, John Luther Adams, JacobTV, Hafez Modirzadeh,David Lang, Kenji Bunch, Don Byron, and Marcelo Zarvos.

Founded in 1998 and based in New York City, ETHEL is comprised of Ralph Farris(viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Kip Jones (violin), and Corin Lee (violin).

Founding member of ETHEL, RALPH FARRIS (artistic director, viola) is a Grammy-nominated arranger, an original Broadway orchestra member of The Lion King, and formermusical director for The Who’s Roger Daltrey. He has worked with Leonard Bernstein, MartinScorsese, Depeche Mode, Natalie Merchant, Harry Connick Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma,and Gorillaz. A graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Ralph earned his bachelor andmaster’s degrees from The Juilliard School.

A founding member of ETHEL, DOROTHY LAWSON (artistic director, cello) hasperformed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the White Oak Dance Project,Philharmonia Virtuosi, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto SymphonyOrchestra, and numerous new music ensembles. Canadian-born, she completed degrees atthe University of Toronto, the Vienna Academy, and The Juilliard School. She teaches in thePreparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School in New York City.

KIP JONES (violin) is known for his ebullient and innovative solo performances in a stylehe describes as “experimental folk.” A modern musical troubadour, he’s performed at scoresof eclectic venues such as Ecuador’s Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Tirana’s Liceu Artistik“Jordan Misja,” two miles inside Chom Ong Tai cave in Laos, the summer homes of nomadicMongolian herders, and platforms of most subway systems in North America. As a composer,his work has been commissioned by ensembles that include the Lake Superior ChamberOrchestra and A Far Cry. A native of Minnesota, Kip earned his degree in violin performancefrom the Berklee College of Music.

CORIN LEE (violin) is one of the most sought-after violinists of his generation. He hasappeared on the great American stages, traditional and otherwise—from Carnegie Hall’sStern Auditorium to The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, from Alice Tully Hall atLincoln Center to EDC Las Vegas. Corin’s performances have been broadcast on Fox, CBS,and NBC News. His “musically marvelous” (Steve Reich) electronic arrangements have setthe new standard for innovation in solo string performance. Corin received degrees from TheJuilliard School (BM) and Yale School of Music (MM). In addition to concert work, he directsLiberated Performer, a program that guides and trains musicians to defeat performanceanxiety.

Two-time GRAMMY® Award winner ROBERT MIRABAL lives with his family at the footof the sacred Taos Mountain in northern New Mexico. Maintaining a traditional life, keepingthe centuries-old customs of the Taos Pueblo people, Robert has been described as a NativeAmerican “Renaissance man”—musician, composer, painter, master craftsman, poet, actor,screenwriter, horseman, and farmer—and he travels extensively playing his music all over theworld. If you live a traditional life, you see things differently—spiritually and musically. Hisfirst flute came when he was eighteen with money he borrowed from his grandmother, andshortly afterward he had the opportunity to meet Native American flute player R. CarlosNakai who greatly influenced him. When we met, he looked at my hands and laughed. Hesaid, “I have that same scar. It’s the scar of the flute maker.”

In the years since, Robert has continued the evolution of his flute-making and also hasbecome an accomplished novelist, poet, craftsman, composer, dancer, actor, painter, sculptor,concert performer, and recording artist. His dozen albums of traditional music, rock and roll,and spoken word present a contemporary view of American Indian life that is unequaled. “Mymusic is informed by the ceremonial music that I’ve heard all my life. What I create comesout of my body and soul in a desire to take care of the spirits of the earth.” A leading proponentof world music, Robert has merged his indigenous American sound with those of Africa, Asia,and the Caribbean, tapping into a planetary pulse with a style that defies categorization. “Mytravels have provided me with experiences that I could have never imagined and exposed meto a global sound and a global voice.”

Whether as a composer, songwriter, or musician, Robert has won many honors includingtwo-time Native American Artist of the Year, three-time Songwriter of the Year, a 2006GRAMMY® Award for Sacred Ground, and his 2008 GRAMMY® Award for JohnnyWhitehorse Totemic Flute Chants, blending all of Robert’s influences into a musical landscapethat conjures up both the historic and contemporary West. His 2002 breakthrough PBSSpecial, Music from a Painted Cave, is unsurpassed in Native American theatrical expression.He is also the author of A Skeleton of a Bridge—a book of poetry, prose, and short stories—and, most recently, his book Running Alone in Photographs—a memoir laced with gritty,introspective prose, that opens a window to a palpable experience of life in the Pueblo throughthe voice of Robert’s alter-ego, Reyes Winds.

As a theatrical performer, Robert is no stranger to transforming himself. He portrayedTony Lujan (Taos Pueblo), the famed husband of Mable Dodge Lujan, in the movie GeorgiaO’Keeffe, a retrospective about artist Georgia O’Keeffe starring three-time Academy Awardnominee Joan Allen. In recent years, Robert has appeared on Japanese and Italian TV as wellas several guest roles on Walker Texas Ranger. In August 2012, Robert premiered Po’paySpeaks, his one-man show in Sante Fe about the leader of the Pueblo Revolt (1680) that isnow touring internationally.

ETHEL gratefully acknowledges its supporters:

The Board of ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music; The AmphionFoundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; The Carnegie Corporation of New York; CECArtsLink;Chamber Music America; The Cheswatyr Foundation, The Delmas Foundation; Double RFoundation; The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation; The Greenwall Foundation; TheJerome Foundation; LEF Foundation; Meet the Composer; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation; TheMulti-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the RockefellerFoundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Netherland-America Foundation; NewMusic USA; The New York State Council on the Arts; New York Community Trust, The New YorkCity Department of Cultural Affairs; OZArts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; TheScherman Foundation; The September 11th Fund; and the Thompson Family Foundation.

ETHEL is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of CulturalAffairs in partnership with the City Council; by the New York State Council on the Arts with thesupport of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; by New Music USA’sNew Music Performance Fund; and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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2016-2017 Horizons Concert Seriesjoin us for these exciting performances in Spring 2017 . . .

“The River” featuring ETHEL with Robert Mirabal7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, Ashurst HallUsing rivers as inspiration for collaboration, the music of the string quartet ETHEL and NativeAmerican flutist Mirabal explores water as the embodiment of spirit and its essential role in life onearth. This cross-cultural concert experience is an integral journey in instrumental virtuosity, songand storytelling.

“The Food of Love: Songs for Shakespeare” featuring The Baltimore Consort7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, Ashurst HallThe Baltimore Consort presents a program featuring music of the Elizabethan era, including songsand consort music from the Shakespeare plays. Soprano Danielle Svonavec performs some of thegreatest hits from the Bard’s songbook. Instrumentalists perform dances and music related to theplays, using their “exquisite consort” of instruments.

“Italia Moderna” featuring Roberto Turrin, piano7:30 p.m. Monday, March 6, Ashurst HallItalian pianist Roberto Turrin explores the question “Does humor belong in music?” through worksby 20th-century Italian composers and their French contemporaries. Turrin graduated from the “G.Tartini “Conservatory of Music in Trieste, which he currently serves as director. After receivingawards from the International Music Competitions in Stresa and Morcone, Turrin began his careeras a soloist, performing in both North America and Europe, receiving wide acclaim.

“Faust II” featuring Jeffrey Swann and Friends7:30 p.m., Monday, March 20, 2017 at Ashurst HallJeffrey Swann, piano, enjoys an international performing career which has taken him throughoutthe United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. His large and varied repertoire includes morethan 60 concertos as well as solo works ranging from Bach to Boulez. This performance featuresensemble music inspired by the disillusioned scholar Faust and his unholy pact with Mephistopheles.

“Echoes” featuring Elena Urioste, violin and Michael Brown, piano-composer7:30 p.m. Monday, April 17, Ashurst HallViolinist Elena Urioste and pianist-composer Michael Brown perform works from their new CD“Echoes,” which features early recital works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Amy Beach, andMichael Brown. Urioste and Brown have made numerous BBC Radio 3 broadcasts, two acclaimedrecitals in London’s legendary Wigmore Hall, and tours of the Southwest and West Coast in the U.S.

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