Lil' Lite O' Mine; Harold Jones, flute
William Foster McDaniel
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 8:00 PM, at Saint Peter’s Church at CitiCorp,
54th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City, conductor/flutist
Harold Jones leads the Antara Ensemble in a program to include J. S. Bach’s Ich Habe Genug (with baritone Thomas Buckner),
Georges Bizet’s Adagietto, Edward Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Op. 40,
Gordan Jacob’s Concerto for Flute and
String Orchestra (with Harold Jones as flute soloist and William Foster
McDaniel as guest conductor), and the world premiere of Victor Kioulaphides’ Summer Concerto for North – South
Consonance, with violinist Mioi Takeda as soloist.
Tickets are $25; seniors (62
and over) and students $20. For information and reservations: (212)
866-2545 or www.antaraensemble.com.
The ANTARA ENSEMBLE, now in its 20th season, was formed by Harold Jones to bring
quality classical music at affordable prices to the culturally diverse
neighborhoods of New York. The
group performs a repertoire spanning centuries and including works by American,
African-American, European and Third World
composers.
A native of Chicago and a
graduate of Juilliard, HAROLD JONES has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Tully Hall,
CAMI Hall and other New York venues, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the
U.S., Europe and Taiwan. He has
performed as flute soloist with The Bach Aria Orchestra, American Symphony, New
York Sinfonietta, Brooklyn Philharmonia, National Orchestral Association, and is
on the faculties of the Westchester Conservatory of Music and Manhattanville
College.
His recordings on the Antara label include two LPs and three
CDs.
Composer VICTOR KIOULAPHIDES was
born in Athens, Greece in 1961. He
studied double bass at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School,
and composition with Giampaolo
Bracali and Ludmila Ulehla. He has
written seven operas, songs in English, German and Greek; chamber music, works
for organ and/or choir, madrigals, works for the guitar, children’s pieces,
piano works, symphonic music, a concerto and plays with music. Kioulalphides has been on the
Composition Theory faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory since 1994 and at the
Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance since 1996. He has received one of ASCAP’s Special
Awards every year since 1993.
Summer
Concerto
is a lyrical, nearly
operatic work, evoking the string sonorities of Samuel Barber and the musical
staging of Nino Rota.
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