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The NOVA Podcast brings you insightful discussions with musicians and great performances from the NOVA Chamber Music Series archives.
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Episode 23 - April 25, 2022
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Migration, NOVA’s May 1 concert
Music discussed includes:
Viktor Kosenko: Three Pieces, op. 9
Arlene Sierra: Butterflies Remember a Mountain
Kareem Roustom: Tesserae
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet, op. 97
Songs of Migration will be presented on May 1, 2022 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2022 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Episode 22 - April 4, 2022
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of the Americas, NOVA’s April 10 concert
Music discussed includes:
Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs
Charles Ives: Selected Songs
Anthony R. Green: The Gettysburg Address
Jessie Montgomery: Loisaida, My Love
Clarice Assad: Canções da America (Songs of America)
Songs of the Americas will be presented on April 10, 2022 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2022 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Episode 21 - March 13, 2022
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Play, NOVA’s March 13 concert
Music discussed includes:
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet
Stephanie Boyd: Pearl (world premiere)
Luke Dahn: Counterplay (world premiere)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Quintet, op. 10
Songs of Play will be presented on March 13, 2022 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2022 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Episode 20 - January 10, 2022
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Perseverance, NOVA’s January 16 concert
Music discussed includes:
Gideon Klein: String Trio
Wang Lu: Rates of Extinction
Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17
Songs of Perseverance will be presented on January 16, 2022 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2022 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Episode 19 - November 8, 2021
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Life, NOVA’s November 14 concert
Music discussed includes:
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Assobio a Játo (Jet Whistle)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Milagros (Miracles)
Devin Maxwell: Git Along Little Dogies
Neil Thornock: Blur
Alfred Schnittke: Serenade
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Songs of Life will be presented on November 14, 2021 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Gratitude, the first concert in NOVA’s 2021/22 Season.
Music discussed includes:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Heiliger Dankgesang (Holy Song of Thanksgiving), op. 132
Brittany J. Green: ...to experience life
Clarice Assad: Metamorfose
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major, op. 36
Songs of Gratitude will be presented on October 10, 2021 at 3pm in Salt Lake City’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. For more information, visit https://www.novaslc.org.
Jeff Counts | host
produced by Chris Myers (https://www.argylearts.com)
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
The music of Nikolai Medtner is often forgotten in the shadow of his colleague and friend, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Pianist Cahill Smith joins us to talk about his love for the music of this early 20th-century composer.
You can hear Cahill Smith and other NOVA artists on our next concert, available beginning Friday, May 21, at https://www.novaslc.org/concerts/2021/5/21/spring21concert3.
Anne Francis Bayless | host
Cahill Smith | pianist
produced by Chris Myers (https://www.argylearts.com)
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This concert is also available in a video version at https://youtu.be/BHby05dKf9k
Jeff Counts hosts a full-length concert of music by your favorite NOVA musicians. Jason Hardink and Caitlyn Valovick Moore perform works by three great American composers. Then six violists and cellists each take on a movement of Bach’s famous Third Suite for Solo Cello.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Welcome and Okpebholo Introduction (00:16)
Jeff Counts | host
SHAWN OKPEBHOLO: ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὕμνοι καὶ ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί (psalmoi kai ymnoi kai odai pnevmatikai / psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs)
I. Ede Ede (Nigeria): an ostinato (01:00)
II. Bringing in the Sheaves (USA): a variation (05:35)
III. Jisasi Fukemino (Papua New Guinea): an impromptu (12:54)
Jason Hardink | piano
Loggins-Hull and Hailstork Introduction (19:11)
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL: Homeland (19:50)
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Flute Set (25:13)
I. Moderato con anima
II. Vivo
III. Lento e teneramente
IV. Allegretto
Caitlyn Valovick Moore | flute
Bach Introduction (30:17)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Suite No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1009
I. Prelude - Matt Johnson | cello (31:01)
II. Allemande - Bradley Ottesen | viola (34:31)
III. Courante - Pegsoon Whang | cello (37:57)
IV. Sarabande - Julie Edwards | viola (40:21)
V. Bourrée I / II - Anne Lee | cello (44:10)
VI. Gigue - Whittney Thomas | viola (48:21)
recorded by Michael Palmer and Wesley Morrison at Utah State University’s Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in Logan, Utah
recording mastered by Michael Carnes
produced by Chris Myers (https://www.argylearts.com)
NOVA Chamber Music Series would like to thank the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University for their generosity in providing recording facilities and staff on the Logan campus.
Transcript available at https://www.novaslc.org/novapodcast/novapodcast014
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
When Jason Hardink discovered Shawn Okpebholo’s music on Facebook, he knew he had to perform something by this incredible composer. But as he began learning ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὕμνοι καὶ ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί ("psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs"), he struggled with whether it was appropriate for him, as a white pianist, to be performing a piece rooted deeply in the musical and religious traditions of Nigeria, African American culture, and Papua New Guinea.
Jeff Counts speaks with Jason about the responsibility performers have to examine their own repertoire choices and present works from diverse voices in a way which respects their origins while bringing them to new audiences.
This episode is also available in a video version at https://youtu.be/X0FScqdCYBA.
Jason mentions the following articles, pieces, and performances in this conversation:
Anthony R. Green: “What the Optics of Music Say to Black Composers”, in NewMusic USA
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/what-the-optics-of-new-music-say-to-black-composers/
“O Freedom” (arr. Okpebholo) — Wayne Arthur Paul, baritone | Javier Arrebola, piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7zGZTeXikk
Two Black Churches — Will Liverman, baritone | Paul Sanchez, piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHehlg94NQc
Jeff Counts | host
Jason Hardink | pianist
recording mastered by Michael Carnes
produced by Chris Myers (https://www.argylearts.com)
Transcript available at https://www.novaslc.org/novapodcast/novapodcast013
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Enjoy a full-length concert of chamber music performances by NOVA musicians. This concert features an early work by Iannis Xenakis, three works by living American composers, and one of Beethoven’s final piano sonatas. Jeff Counts is your host.
This concert is also available in a video version at https://youtu.be/JFMwqUivgq4
CONCERT PROGRAM
Welcome and Xenakis Introduction (00:16)
Jeff Counts | host
IANNIS XENAKIS: Διπλή Ζυγία (Dhipli zyia: Double Symmetry) (01:04)
Claude Halter | violin
Anne Lee | cello
Puts Introduction (05:16)
KEVIN PUTS: Arches (05:46)
Madeline Adkins | violin
Tower and Brouwer Introduction (18:14)
JOAN TOWER: Wings (18:50)
MARGARET BROUWER: No Rotary Phone (29:26)
Erin Svoboda | clarinet
Beethoven Introduction (34:03)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 109
I. Vivace ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo (34:33)
II. Prestissimo (39:22)
III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo (42:10)
Frank Weinstock | piano
hosted by Jeff Counts
recorded by Michael Palmer and Wesley Morrison at Utah State University’s Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in Logan, Utah
recording mastered by Michael Carnes
produced by Chris Myers (https://www.argylearts.com)
NOVA Chamber Music Series would like to thank the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University for their generosity in providing recording facilities and staff on the Logan campus.
Transcript available at https://www.novaslc.org/novapodcast/novapodcast012
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.