56x54 Redux: The Second Call for Scores Concert
Old First Concerts, June 4, 2017

"June will Begin with a Very Busy Sunday...the first Sunday of next month (June 4) will mark the beginning of the run of performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s K. 527 opera Don Giovanni. However, as the hucksters like to say, “That’s not all, folks!...Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will return to the Old First Concerts series with a program of 21st-century chamber music based on last year’s Call for Scores. The program will include one world premiere, four United States premieres, and three West Coast premieres."(Stephen Smoliar, The Rehearsal Studio, May 19, 2017)

World Premiere

• Justin Henry Rubin, "Day That I Have Loved," (soprano, cello, piano) Listen to his "A rebours."
U.S. Premieres

• Eden Lonsdale, "Mosaic" (cello) Listen to his "Schweife."
• Daniel Mehdizadeh, Cello Sonata (cello, piano). Listen to his Hekaayate Ney (Grievances of the Reed).
• Alexander Skripko, "The Child on the Shore" (from "Three Songs of Ursula LeGuin," soprano, piano). Listen to his Nocturne.
• Martyna Kosecka's "Nepheles,"commissioned & premiered by E4TT in Krakow in 2016 (not part of the Call for Scores, piano). Watch the world premiere of "Nepheles."
West Coast Premieres
• Molly Joyce, "One" (soprano, piano). Listen to her "Glow" for Choir.
• Stephen Mitton, "Urban Haikus," #1-2 (soprano, piano). Watch him play his "Odyssey" for cello.
• Grace Xu Schott, "Capoeira" (piano). Watch her "Lift Up Your Voice to the Clouds."
• Christopher Wicks "Four Songs by Christina Rossetti" #2-3; also "Three Elegaic Songs. Listen to his Trio No. 1.
and
• Alden Jenks, "Unrestful Sleep" (piano). Watch excerpts of his music, including "Unrestful sleep.