GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert 2012
Recent Concert
GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra Performance
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
This year's concert was part of a larger endeavor, Water-culture: women's work(s), which is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations read more about the project here.
Highlights of this year's festival performance!
- Ithaca cello maverick Lizzy Simkin performed the Bartok Rhapsody no. 1 for violin and orchestra on the cello.
- World Premieres by U.K. based composers Rachel Lockwood and Kate Whitley sung by Ithaca based mezzo-soprano Ivy Walz, with the text of Tompkins County Poet Laureate, Gail Holst-Warhaft (part of Water-culture: women's work(s))
- Special Event! Premiere performance of Judy Hyman's orchestration of Jeb Puryear's Mystic Water arranged specifically for the 2012 GrassRoots Festival Orchestra.
Featuring guest artists
Elizabeth Simkin, celloIvy Walz, mezzo-soprano
Gail Holst-Warhaft, poet
Rachel Lockwood, composer
Kate Whitley, composer
Judy Hyman, arranger
Program
Mendelssohn: Meerestille und Glückliche Fahrt OvertureBartok: Rhapsody No.1, for violin (cello) and orchestra ~ Elizabeth Simkin, cello
Whitley: Flood Days, World Premiere ~ Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano
Lockwood: At The Falls, World Premiere ~ Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Finale
Puryear/Hyman: Mystic Water
