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2009-2010 Concert Season Friday, August 6, 2010 AT 8PM Symphony No. 3 (world premiere) Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 for Unaccompanied Cello A Forest of Attics for clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello and bass Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series Last Autumn for horn and cello (world premiere) Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series |
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New Recording - 2009
Upcoming Projects New Song Cycle for Thomas Hampson - Michael Hersch has been commissioned to write a new song cycle for baritone Thomas Hampson scheduled for premiere during the 2010/11 concert season. New Concerto - The Cleveland Orchestra has commissioned Michael Hersch to compose a new concerto for principal trumpet Michael Sachs. The work is scheduled for a fall 2011 premiere. Symphony No. 3 - Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, Michael Hersch will write his third symphony for Music Director Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra for premiere during summer 2010. A Forest of Attics - Commissioned by the Network for New Music for their 25th Anniversary Season, Michael Hersch has written a new work for septet (clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and bass) after texts of Bruno Schulz. The work is scheduled for a spring 2010 premiere. Last Autumn for horn and cello, the sibling to The Vanishing Pavilions, and the second work of Mr. Hersch's massive trilogy, was selected by The Philadelphia Inquirer as the city's top event in classical music during 2009. The 2.5 hour work was premiered on October 17, 2009. |
Vanguard Classics releases the first disc in a series of three surveying Michael Hersch's complete works for solo strings, written during the fifteen years 1994-2009. The first recording features the demanding early Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 for Unaccompanied Cello. The recording is the first on Vanguard since the widely acclaimed 2-CD box set release of The Vanishing Pavilions in 2007, with the composer at the piano. 
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