The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) presents Oboe Bliss, a concert inspired by an Arthur Bliss quintet featuring the oboe and strings. The program includes the world premiere of a new work for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet by renowned Bay Area composer Elinor Armer, and new arrangements of Manuel De Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole for the same instruments by Left Coast composer Kurt Rohde, along with a string trio by Anthony Porter.
Oboe Bliss features Left Coast’s own Tom Nugent, currently principal oboe with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and founding member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Nugent was attracted to the Bliss quintet for its idiosyncratic qualities, and describes the piece as a “lush quintet, with French impressionistic and English pastoral sonorities that combine as a counter point to 20th century outburst. It would seem that Bliss in this 1927 work is entering the 20th century kicking and screaming but always coming back to his tonal and stylistic roots.”
Award-winning composer and LCCE’s founding artistic director Kurt Rohde is making a new arrangement of Manuel De Falla’s 1926 Suite Populaire Espagnole for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet especially for this program, and internationally acclaimed Bay Area composer Elinor Armer uses the same combination of instruments for a new piece that will receive its world premiere. Finally, Anthony Porter’s Five, Six, Heaven for String Trio, a work commissioned by the LCCE Intersection Workshop will be revisited.
“This concert was initially driven by Tom Nugent’s interest in the Bliss piece and we are excited to feature his contributions to the ensemble in this program,” explains Anna Presler, LCCE artistic director. “I was delighted when Elly Armer agreed to write a new piece for us. One of the very first recordings of new music I ever made was of her Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, when I was still in graduate school. Plus, she taught a great seminar on Bartok String Quartets in about 1993, and I have drawn on the work we did in there in rehearsals and performances of those pieces ever since.”
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Oboe Bliss features Left Coast’s own Tom Nugent, currently principal oboe with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and founding member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Nugent was attracted to the Bliss quintet for its idiosyncratic qualities, and describes the piece as a “lush quintet, with French impressionistic and English pastoral sonorities that combine as a counter point to 20th century outburst. It would seem that Bliss in this 1927 work is entering the 20th century kicking and screaming but always coming back to his tonal and stylistic roots.”
Award-winning composer and LCCE’s founding artistic director Kurt Rohde is making a new arrangement of Manuel De Falla’s 1926 Suite Populaire Espagnole for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet especially for this program, and internationally acclaimed Bay Area composer Elinor Armer uses the same combination of instruments for a new piece that will receive its world premiere. Finally, Anthony Porter’s Five, Six, Heaven for String Trio, a work commissioned by the LCCE Intersection Workshop will be revisited.
“This concert was initially driven by Tom Nugent’s interest in the Bliss piece and we are excited to feature his contributions to the ensemble in this program,” explains Anna Presler, LCCE artistic director. “I was delighted when Elly Armer agreed to write a new piece for us. One of the very first recordings of new music I ever made was of her Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, when I was still in graduate school. Plus, she taught a great seminar on Bartok String Quartets in about 1993, and I have drawn on the work we did in there in rehearsals and performances of those pieces ever since.”
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) presents Oboe Bliss, a concert inspired by an Arthur Bliss quintet featuring the oboe and strings. The program includes the world premiere of a new work for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet by renowned Bay Area composer Elinor Armer, and new arrangements of Manuel De Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole for the same instruments by Left Coast composer Kurt Rohde, along with a string trio by Anthony Porter.
Oboe Bliss features Left Coast’s own Tom Nugent, currently principal oboe with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and founding member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Nugent was attracted to the Bliss quintet for its idiosyncratic qualities, and describes the piece as a “lush quintet, with French impressionistic and English pastoral sonorities that combine as a counter point to 20th century outburst. It would seem that Bliss in this 1927 work is entering the 20th century kicking and screaming but always coming back to his tonal and stylistic roots.”
Award-winning composer and LCCE’s founding artistic director Kurt Rohde is making a new arrangement of Manuel De Falla’s 1926 Suite Populaire Espagnole for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet especially for this program, and internationally acclaimed Bay Area composer Elinor Armer uses the same combination of instruments for a new piece that will receive its world premiere. Finally, Anthony Porter’s Five, Six, Heaven for String Trio, a work commissioned by the LCCE Intersection Workshop will be revisited.
“This concert was initially driven by Tom Nugent’s interest in the Bliss piece and we are excited to feature his contributions to the ensemble in this program,” explains Anna Presler, LCCE artistic director. “I was delighted when Elly Armer agreed to write a new piece for us. One of the very first recordings of new music I ever made was of her Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, when I was still in graduate school. Plus, she taught a great seminar on Bartok String Quartets in about 1993, and I have drawn on the work we did in there in rehearsals and performances of those pieces ever since.”
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Oboe Bliss features Left Coast’s own Tom Nugent, currently principal oboe with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and founding member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Nugent was attracted to the Bliss quintet for its idiosyncratic qualities, and describes the piece as a “lush quintet, with French impressionistic and English pastoral sonorities that combine as a counter point to 20th century outburst. It would seem that Bliss in this 1927 work is entering the 20th century kicking and screaming but always coming back to his tonal and stylistic roots.”
Award-winning composer and LCCE’s founding artistic director Kurt Rohde is making a new arrangement of Manuel De Falla’s 1926 Suite Populaire Espagnole for Flute, Oboe and String Quartet especially for this program, and internationally acclaimed Bay Area composer Elinor Armer uses the same combination of instruments for a new piece that will receive its world premiere. Finally, Anthony Porter’s Five, Six, Heaven for String Trio, a work commissioned by the LCCE Intersection Workshop will be revisited.
“This concert was initially driven by Tom Nugent’s interest in the Bliss piece and we are excited to feature his contributions to the ensemble in this program,” explains Anna Presler, LCCE artistic director. “I was delighted when Elly Armer agreed to write a new piece for us. One of the very first recordings of new music I ever made was of her Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, when I was still in graduate school. Plus, she taught a great seminar on Bartok String Quartets in about 1993, and I have drawn on the work we did in there in rehearsals and performances of those pieces ever since.”
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