The 1999 - 2000
da capo chamber players season:

By George!

November 30, 1999
Great Hall at Cooper Union (7th Street at Third Avenue)   8:00 pm
This concert is part of the SONIC BOOM festival

Honoring George Perle at 85
with guest artists Lucy Shelton, Sarah Rothenberg, and David Taylor

• George Perle, +Sonata a quattro
• George Perle, Critical Moments
• George Perle, Songs on texts by Emily Dickinson
• George Perle, Sonata a cinque
• Paul Lansky, *new work written for George Perle's 85th birthday

An exciting tribute is anticipated as George Perle, unquestionably one of America's most significant composers, reaches his 85th year.  Da Capo is proud to have performed, commissioned, premiered and recorded his works in many richly rewarding collaborations over the past two decades.

*World premiere, written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
+Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players

CHAMBER MUSIC OF JUDITH SHATIN

February 6, 2000  3:00 pm
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

with guest artists:
Joan Fuerstman, mezzo-soprano
William Zito, guitar

• Songs of Anna Akhmatova (1982)
• Secret Ground (1993)
• Werther (1983)
• Gazebo Music (1983)
• View from Mt. Nebo (1985)
• Dreamtigers (1996)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, The Juggler of Notre Dame
(Le Jongleur de Notre Dame)

for chamber ensemble, mime, baritone, and children's band

February 11 and 12, 2000, 8:00 pm
Miller Theatre, 116th Street & Broadway
New York City
This program is co-presented by
Miller Theatre.

also
Tuesday, February 8, 2000 8:00 pm
Olin Hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

with guest artists

• Jennifer Muller, Director (biographical information)
• Matt Ostroff, juggler
• André Solomon-Glover, baritone
• Pablo Rieppi, percussion
• Amy Larkey, conductor of children's band

Family entertainment, a staged chamber music enactment of a heart-warming medieval legend.  The mime/juggler and a baritone soloist interact with the ensemble and with a 12-piece children's band.   The flutist, clarinetist, and percussionist are also cast as monks, the violinist as a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Ur - Musik

with guest artist Paul Sperry, tenor

• Philippe Bodin, *new work
• Martin Bresnick, Duo for Violin and Piano
• Harold Meltzer, *Exiles
• Belinda Reynolds, Trio
• Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate (for piano solo with narrator)

With this program Da Capo reaffirms its openness to a wide spectrum of new music, its special dedication to working with composers of all ages and styles.

June 1, 2000
Washington Square Church, 135 West 4th Street, New York City

*World premiere, written for the Da Capo Chamber Players