2022 Composers Now Festival Virtual Open

Full Program

Introduction 0:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks 0:22
    Tania León

The 2022 Visionary Awards
    David Del Tredici (b. 1937) 3:29
         video courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes
    Mary Watkins (b. 1939) 16:01
         "Mamie's Lament" from Emmett Till: The Opera (2019) 19:27
              Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano
         "Pap's Song" from the opera Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story (2009) 24:36
              Philip Lima, baritone; Andrea Chinedu Nwoke, soprano
              Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra
              Ng Tian Hui, conductor; Darryl V. Jones, director dress rehearsal, April 2014

The 2022 First Commission
    Ebun Oguntola (b. 2005)
         [Introduction] 28:20
         Interim (2022) for trio and electronics (world premiere) 31.37
              Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, soprano saxophone
              Erin Rogers, alto saxophone & composer mentor
              Zach Herchen, baritone saxophone
     award made possible through the generosity of Michael Minard and Phyllis Ross The

December 2021 Collaborative Creative Residency
    Seong Ae Kim, composer & Andre Veloux, visual artist 37:21
    a joint initiative of the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Composers Now

Rohan Chander (b. 1998)
    The Tragedy of Hikikomori Loveless (2021) for electronics 42:19
         Vicky Chow, keyboards

Joy Guidry (b. 1995)
    [Introduction] 53:39
    Face to Face (2022) 57:33

Jonathan Saraga (b. 1987)
    [Introduction] 1:04:09
    Recurring Dream (2012/2021 quartet arrangement) 1:06:31
         Jonathan Saraga, trumpet; Chris Pattishall, piano
         James Robbins, bass; Mark Whitfield, Jr., drums
         January 11, 2022; Douglas Recording, NYC
         Scott Chiu, audio-video recording; mixing & mastering; production