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Contemporary Music Ensemble: At First Light

Concert
October 15, 2024
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Walter Hall

80 Queens Park

PROGRAM

Fractured Time (2020)
Anna Clyne (Germany, b.1980)
presented under license from Boosey & Hawkes Inc., copyright owners

Jubilees (1993)
Magnus Lindberg (Finland, b.1958)
Jubilee I
    Jubilee II
    Jubilee III
    Jubilee IV
    Jubilee V
    Jubilee VI
presented under license from Boosey & Hawkes Inc., copyright owners

Intermission

Par là! (2015/16)
Johannes Maria Staud (UK, b.1974)
presented under license from European American Music Distributors Company

At First Light (1982)
George Benjamin (UK, b.1960)
    I
    II
    III
presented under license from European American Music Distributors Company 


University of Toronto Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME)

Wallace Halladay, director

Flute
Katie Kirkpatrick

Oboe
Chieh-Ying Lu*

Clarinet
Andrew Neagoe

Bassoon 
Abigail Minor

Horn
Charlotte Alexander*
Julia Fowell*

Trumpet
Freddy Abu-Sido
Elias Doyle

Trombone
Samuel Gervais

Percussion
Amiel Ang
Wang Yu Lo Arthur

Harp
Zane Mallett*

Piano
Hirad Moradi-Lakeh
Ingrid Ma

Violin
Elianna Van Raalte
Satchi Kanashiro

Viola
Mobin Naeini

Cello
San Rim

Bass
Carlos Restrepo*

*extra musician


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PERFORMANCE COLLECTION
Karen Wiseman, librarian

WALTER HALL 
Peter Olsen, Sound Engineer

Special thanks to Andrew Novosky for the expert piano tuning; and to Kevin Li and Nolan Hildebrand for their technical prowess.

Thank you to CME TAs Lorenzo Guggenheim, Roan Ma, and Chi-En Wong.  
Thank you to Ensemble Manager Freddy Abu-Sido. 


TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

Nach neuen Meeren

Dorthin - will ich; und ich traue
Mir fortan und meinem Griff.
Offen liegt das Meer, ins Blaue
Treibt mein Genueser Schiff.

Alles glänzt mir neu und neuer,
Mittag schläft auf Raum und Zeit -:
Nur dein Auge - ungeheuer
Blickt michs an, Unendlichkeit!

Toward New Seas

Thither - I wish to go, and I trust in
Myself henceforth, and in my grasp.
The sea lies open [before me], into the blue
Drifts my Genoese ship.

Everything shines new and newer for me
Noonday is sleeping in time and space - :
Only your eye - tremendously
Gazes upon me, Endlessness!

Friedrich Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1887


Ticket Prices: $30 Adult, $20 Senior, $10 Student. 
University of Toronto students with a valid T-Card are admitted free at the door (space permitting, some exceptions apply). No ticket reservation necessary.