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VSO Live
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Kate Tamarkin, Conductor

Recorded live at the Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT on Mar 20, 1999.

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Poulenc: Gloria, (Gale Limansky, soprano)
Elgar: Enigma Variations


A Feast of Carols
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Kate Tamarkin, Conductor

Recorded live at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dec 1993.

Holiday Favorites featuring the 200 voice Dallas Symphony Chorus and original arrangements by Randol Bass.

1.  Caroling, Caroling [Burt]
2.  Many Moods of Christmas, Suite No. 1 [arr.Shaw]
3.  Fantasia on Greensleeves [Vaughan Williams]
4.  Hark, the Hearld Angels Sing [arr. Wilcocks]
5.  It Came Upon A Midnight Clear [arr. Bartsch]
6.  Boar's Head Carol [arr. Poston ]
7.  White Christmas [Berlin, arr. Ringwald]
8.  For Unto Us A Child Is Born [Handel]
9.  Ukrainian Carol (Carol of the Bells) [arr. Kelly]
10. Ding, Dong, Merrily on High [arr. Dobrinsky]
11. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2 [Bizet]
12. Still, Still, Still from A German Christmas [Tucker]
13. Feast of Carols [arr. Bass]

Clip:  Dawn Walk, Jill Levis - soprano

 

A Change of Season
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble
Kate Tamarkin, Conductor

Vermont's premiere contemporary music ensemble records two world premieres by composers James Grant and Larry Read, featuring soprano, Jill Hallett Levis. To order:  www.vcme.org

James Grant: A Change of Season [1989]
song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble on poems by Ann S. Barker

   I. Prelude: Winter Silence
  II. Secret Meadow
 III. Soundings
 IV. Bracken
  V. Dawn Walk Clip: Jill Levis - soprano
 VI. Aubade
VII. The Best Part
VIII. Postlude: Last Aster

Thomas Read: Light After Light [1990]
for clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Commissioned Works

1984 - Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI) "Catena III for French Horn and Orchestra"
by M. William Karlins, with Dale Clevenger, hornist
1986 - Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI) "Passage of Years"
by Marilyn Shrude
1987 - Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI) "Beauty and the Beast"
by Norman Weston
1989 - Commission and Recording: by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble.  (See Recordings.) "A Change of Season"
by James Grant 
1993 - Commission and Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "A Christmas Flourish"
by Randol Bass
Commission and Premiere: by the East Texas Symphony Orchestra "Golden Jubilee"
by Randol Bass, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra
 
1994 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Overture"
by Pierre Jalbert 
1995 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Autumn Lute Song"
by Su Tan 
1996 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Elixir"
by Allen Shawn 
Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra

"A Consolation of Time"
by Joel Rosenbaum

1997 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Autumn Leaves"
by Gwyneth Walker 
2001 -
Commission and Premiere: by the Monterey Symphony Orchestra "And in the air these sounds..."
for Baritone and Orchestra by Allen Shawn. Work celebrating John Stein's 100th birthday.

Premieres

1984 - World Premiere: "Ballad for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra"
by Michael Hal Stenson
Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI "Catena III for French Horn and Orchestra"
by M. William Karlins, with Dale Clevenger, hornist
Wisconsin Premiere: "Tam O'Shanter" (1915)
by George Whitfield Chadwick
Wisconsin Premiere: "Grasshoppers" by Ursula Mandok
1985 - Wisconsin Premiere: "Winter Birds" by Robert Myers
Wisconsin Premiere: "Overture: Parachute Dancing" by Libby Larsen
Wisconsin Premiere: "Seadrift" by John Alden Carpenter
1986 - Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI) "Passage of Years" by Marilyn Shrude
1987 - Commission and Premiere: by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (Appleton, WI) "Beauty and the Beast" by Norman Weston
Wisconsin Premiere: "Variations on a Sarabande" by Marga Richter
1989 - Texas Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "Symphony No. 1" by M. William Karlins
Commission and Recording by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble.  (See Recordings.) "A Change of Season" by James Grant 
1990 - Texas Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "Dreamwaltzes" by Steven Stucky
1991 - Texas Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "Viola Concerto" by Schmittke, with Yuri Bashmet, violist
1992 - World Premiere: "October Dream: Vermont" by Erik Nielsen
1993 - Commission and Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "A Christmas Flourish" by Randol Bass
Commission and Premiere: by the East Texas Symphony Orchestra "Golden Jubilee" by Randol Bass, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra 
1994 - Texas Premiere: by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra "Theme and Variations for Viola and Orchestra" by Alan Shulman, with Barbara Hustis, violist
Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Overture" by Pierre Jalbert 
1995 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Autumn Lute Song" by Su Tan 
1996 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Elixir" by Allen Shawn 
Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "A Consolation of Time" by Joel Rosenbaum
1997 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "Autumn Leaves" by Gwyneth Walker 
1998 - Commission and Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "On October Ground" by Larry Read 
2001 -
Commission and Premiere: by the Monterey Symphony Orchestra "And in the air these sounds..." for Baritone and Orchestra by Allen Shawn. Work celebrating John Stein's 100th birthday.
2003 - Vermont Premiere: by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra "And in the air these sounds..." for Baritone and Orchestra by Allen Shawn. Work celebrating John Stein's 100th birthday.
  California Premiere: by the Monterey Symphony Orchestra "Concerto for Two Guitars" by Jeffrey Van