• Program Notes

About the music.

• Performers - Event 1

Larry Bell, piano, composer

Pamela Frame, 'cello

Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone

Hui-Min Wang, piano (taped performance selections)

• Performers Event 2

Memphis Kids 'N Blues Performers

• Other Contributers

Oliver Schneller, program notes

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Performers Event 1

Larry Bell, piano, composer

Recognized by the Chicago Tribune as "a major talent," composer Larry Thomas Bell has been awarded the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Juilliard String Quartet, the Seattle Symphony, the RAI Orchestra of Rome, and played throughout the United States, and in Russia, Italy, Great Britain, Slovakia, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Canada. Bell's Sacred Symphonies is recorded on Vienna Modern Masters (VMM). His Piano Sonata appears on North/South Recordings and the Piano Concerto will appear on VMM, both with Bell as soloist. Scores are published by the American Composers Alliance and Casa Rustica Publications.

 

Also a pianist, Bell has concertized in New York, Boston, Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Japan, the Midwest, and the Southeast. He has premiered works by Vincent Persichetti and Frederic Rzewski. Bell received his doctorate from The Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Persichetti and Roger Sessions. He has taught on the faculties of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, the Boston Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory.

Pamela Frame, 'cello

Cellist Pamela Frame has appeared in the major concert halls of the United States and Europe. Honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant for 1995-96, her Koch Intl. Classics CD of cello music by Amy Beach and Rebecca Clarke was released recently to unanimous critical acclaim. Her unique and innovative programming delights audiences with Gershwin, Scottish folk tunes, American 20th century masterpieces, and rarely heard Classical repertoire, such as Czerny's version of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata in a stunning edition for cello and piano.

 

Pamela Frame is a winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, given to artists of exceptional talent who also possess an unusual ability to communicate and share their gifts with the widest possible audience. In conjunction with public concerts in major American cities and in Paris, she has performed Pro Musicis community service concerts in prisons, homeless centers and in hospitals.

 

As a member of Affiliate Artists, Inc., she performed hundreds of concerts in residencies all over the United States. From 1985-89 Ms. Frame toured and recorded in the United States and Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

 

She has also appeared as chamber musician at the Marlboro Festival, Festival Casals, Skaneateles Festival (where she taped a performance for NBC's Today Show), and on tour in Germany and Poland. She has recorded for DG, Albany and Koch Classics, as well as appearing twice with Garrison Keillor on 'Prairie Home Companion.'

 

Pamela Frame is Associate Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music and Founder of Music For All, an interdisciplinary program in which Eastman students are prepared and encouraged to perform for diverse audiences throughout the community. She performs with 'The Blue Light Trio' and during the summer teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp. She lives in Rochester, New York with her husband and her two sons.

 

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Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone

 

One of the foremost concert saxophonists, Kenneth Radnofsky has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles throughout the world, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra under the direction of Maestro Kurt Masur, Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra, Boston Pops, Taiwan Symphony, New World Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Marlboro Festival, Portland String Quartet, and Moscow Autumn, a Russian new music festival.

 

Mr. Radnofsky made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1996, also under the direction of Maestro Masur, having made his Carnegie Hall debut some years earlier with the NY premiere of Gunther Schuller's Concerto with the Natl. Orchestral Assn. The world premiere of the Schuller was also given by Radnofsky, with the Pittsburgh Symphony, with both of the highly acclaimed performances conducted by the composer. David Amram's Concerto, 'Ode to Lord Buckley,' is also dedicated to Radnofsky, who premiered the work with the Portland Symphony, under Bruce Hangen's direction.

 

Other American composers commissioned by Radnofsky, have included, in recent years, Christopher Theofanidis, Larry Bell, Donald Martino, Morton Subotnick, Milton Babbitt, Ezra Sims, Roger Bourland, and an innovative commission of Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison for a Sonata, premiered Dec. 3, 1995 by 43 saxophonists in different locations around the globe in an effort organized by Radnofsky, entitled World-Wide Concurrent Premieres, Inc. (WWCP). Mr. Radnofsky is Exec. Dir. of WWCP, and has created a network of musicians commissioning today's finest composers. Australian composer Vincent Plush and Russian composer Georgy Dmitriev have also written for Radnofsky.

 

In 1996, Mr. Radnofsky recorded the Debussy Rhapsody with the NY Philharmonic (for Teldec), and Chris Theofanidis' and Donald Martino's Saxophone Concerti (for Albany). In 1991 he was featured soloist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, performing Franz Waxman's 'A Place in the Sun,' under John Mauceri's direction (for Philips). Ongoing important projects include concerts in Israel, touring with his own recital, 'Music Under Siege (works by composers banned by the Nazis),' and 'Blue Light Trio,' performing original works for saxophone/clarinet (Radnofsky is also an accomplished clarinetist!), cello and piano.

 

A native of Texas, Kenneth Radnofsky makes his home in Boston. He is Professor of Saxophone at New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory and the Hartt School (Univ. of Hartford). Early teachers were, Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner, Terry Anderson and Duncan Hale. Mr. Radnofsky's own summer teaching included for many years Great Woods and Tanglewood, summer homes for Pittsburgh and Boston Symphonies, respectively. Mr. Radnofsky still performs as occasional guest saxophonist for the Boston Symphony, as he has done for the past 20 years. He has also taught at Matan, an international summer music camp in Israel.

 

Mr. Radnofsky's editions of the music commissioned by Elise Hall (who commissioned the Debussy Rhapsody and countless other works), are currently being prepared by Southern Music Company. Kenneth Radnofsky performs exclusively on Selmer Instruments.

Hui-Min Wang, piano (taped performance selections)

Taiwanese born pianist Hui-Min Wang has performed as solo recitalist, collaborative pianist and chamber musician extensively in the United States and in Europe. At the age of fifteen, Ms. Wang won the top prize at the Taiwan Youth Music Competition. After receiving the distinction of Artistic Talents Excellence from the Taiwan Ministry of Education in Taipei, she went abroad to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich, Germany. She continued her piano studies in Vienna with Ms. Krassimira Jordan, and in Boston with Ms. Veronica Jochum, for her post-graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. in 1991, Baylor University honored Ms. Wang with a meritorious award for artistic achievement.

 

Since 1994 Ms. Wang has been staff pianist and assistant opera coach at the Hartt School, Hartford, Connecticut. She has collaborated with various renowned artists such as Corol Wincenc and Leone Buyse, and begins her inaugural season as pianist of the Blue Light Trio. Ms. Wang is also a member of the piano faculty at the Suffield Academy.

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Performers - Event 2

Memphis Kids 'N Blues Performers

MOTET Project Design

David Reider, Music Education Developer and Design

David Reider is a scientist at BBN researching innovations in music education. His work focuses on using electronic tools and networks to teach on line composition and appreciation of music in constructivist settings. At BBN he directs World Band, a global on line music education project, of which MOTET is a component. He led the development of Interplay, software which led to the first live Internet-based school concert between different continents. His research explores distance teaching through collaborations and on line community building. He has presented extensively on his findings at national conferences and abroad. He holds a B.A. from UCLA in music and an M.M. from New England Conservatory, where he formerly served on the faculty. He is currently completing a masters in education at Harvard University. A flute and saxophone player, he has appeared at clubs and festivals in Europe and the States, most often with the Boston Art Quartet, whose second CD will be released in 1997.

Ron Schachter, NSN Events Director

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Other Contributers

Oliver Schneller, program notes

Currently working on a doctorate in composition with Thea Musgrave at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

 

He holds a MM in composition from New England Conservatory, and an MA in musicology, political science and history from University of Bonn. He has lectured on Charles Ives, contemporary European music, Jewish composers in the Third Reich. He has studied with Ken Radnofsky and participated in the WWCF-Harbison premiere of San Antonio in 1996.

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