Yarilo Contemporary Music Society in a Co-Production with 240 Northern Percussion Ensemble
Join us for our season opener Out of the Shadows, a journey for discovering unknown masterpieces from the past. Yarilo Music continues its mandate to bring to life the hidden treasures of contemporary solo and chamber music with a program that will bring composers and selected works “out of the shadows”. In a co-production with our friends from 240 Northern Percussion Ensemble, we will present works of composers who, for various reasons, were overlooked and neglected by the musical establishment.
Johanna Beyer (1888-1944) was one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century music and the first woman composer to ever use electronic instruments. Despite this, she is practically unknown today having been overshadowed by her male counterparts. Perhaps Beyer’s most important contribution to the development of new music is her repertoire for percussion ensembles. We include on our program her “Waltz” for Percussion, and “Percussion Suite” (1933).
Vancouver’s own Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023) left us far too soon with many early works still in manuscript form. Programming her 1996 work “Limbo” for clarinet and piano is part of our efforts to bring to light her early works buried in UBC’s archives. While this composition is that of a young composer, we perceive in it the beginnings of the composer she would become later.
Also on the program: Morlock’s “Quoi??” for percussion and piano, Beyer’s “Clusters” for solo piano, and Thomas Ades’s piano transcription of John Dowland’s “In Darkness Let Me Dwell”, a work that captures the dark haunting poetry and ghostly sounds befitting a concert on All Hallows’ Eve!
Tickets: $36/Adults; $19.99/Students/Seniors
Performers: Jane Hayes and Anna Levy, pianos; Mike Brown, clarinet; Gregory Samek, Jon Bernard, Gael Chabot-Leclerc, Amber Chen, Niki Hung, percussion.