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Acclaimed Pianist Performs at Ussachevsky Memorial
Festival at Pomona College
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Kathleen Supové, acclaimed contemporary pianist, will
perform and lecture at Pomona College, as part of the annual
Ussachevsky Memorial Festival – a program entirely based on
piano and electronics. The festival takes place on Friday,
Feb. 2 and Saturday, Feb. 3 and is presented by the Pomona
College Music Department in memory of composer and Pomona
College alumnus Vladimir Ussachevsky.
Concerts will be held on both Friday, February 2 and
Saturday, February 3 at 8 p.m. Supové will perform music by
Carolyn Yarnell, Neil Rolnick, Randall Woolf, Ussachevsky
and others. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 3, Supové
will give a lecture and demonstration.
All events are open to the public and free of charge. They
will be held in Pomona’s Thatcher Music Building, Lyman Hall
(340 N. College Ave., Claremont). This performance is
sponsored by the Pomona College Music Department. For more
information, call (909) 621-8155.
Supové has won prizes in the Gaudeamus International
Competition for Interpretation of Contemporary Music and she
began her career as a guest artist at the prestigious
Darmstadt Festival in Germany. New York Newsday named her
first solo CD, Figure 88, one of the Ten Best Classical
Releases of 1993. Her solo concerts, entitled The Exploding
Piano, pay homage to the music of countless contemporary
composers—minimalists, postminimalists, and
experimentalists. The Exploding Piano is a multimedia
experience using electronics, theatrical elements, vocal
rants, performance art, staging, and collaboration with
artists from other disciplines. Supové is currently an
artist-in-residence at The Flea Theater in New York City and
a 1973 graduate of Pomona College.
Vladimir Ussachevsky, a 1935 graduate of Pomona College, was
one of the most significant pioneers in electronic music,
and one of its most ardent supporters. A generous bequest
from Ussachevsky provides the college’s Electronic Music
Studio with state-of-the-art equipment for the production
and recording of electronic music.
Ussachevsky was the first to combine traditional music
sounds – musical instruments and voice – with taped sounds
from a variety of sources – wind, footsteps, splashing
water, a telephone, animal sounds or people crying or
laughing, to name but a few. Ussachevsky electronically
modulated these sounds through such devices and techniques
as the electronic switch, echo chamber, feedback, ring
modulation, tape loops, speed variation, volume control,
complex mixing and detailed tape editing. By using the
medium of tape music for its unique capabilities,
Ussachevsky developed an
instrument with previously unknown musical possibilities.
The Ussachevsky Memorial Festival is coordinated by Thomas
E. Flaherty, composer, John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter
Professor of Music and director of the Electronic Music
Studio at Pomona College since 1989.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the web at
www.pomona.edu.
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Contact:
Thomas E. Flaherty
Professor of Music
Phone:
(909) 607-2451, (909) 621-8155
E-mail:
thomas.flaherty@pomona.edu |
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