Steven Jaffe
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Concerts
Images
Washington Post Feature
Commissions Present and Past
Tuesday November 21, 8 PM
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street
Eric Chasalow: Flute Concerto (Three Love Poems) featuring Patricia Spencer
Gene Pritsker: Self-Laceration
Chandler Carter: Conversation Piece
Philippe Bodin: Peal
Stephen Jaffe: Nonesuch Serenade
Philip Glass: Modern Love Waltz (arr. Moran)
Da Capo
Michael Adelson, conductor
Tom Kolor, percussion
Orchestral Repertoire
Cut-Time (2005) 2'
3 (+picc.)-3-3-2-cbsn; 4-2-3-0; timp, piano, 3 perc., strings
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2002/3) 30'
4 (+picc, al fl.optional)-2-3 (+eb picc; bass cl.)-2-cbsn.(+bsn.III);
4-2 (opt. bb picc.)-3-1; timpani, mandolin (may be replaced by ossias in score),
harp, piano/celesta, 3 perc., strings, - cello solo.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2000) 36'
3(picc.), 2(E.H.), 2(B. cl.) 2 2 - 4 2 2 0; timp. 3 perc. hp. pno./cel.,
strings, - solo violin
Songs of Turning (1996) - 26'
soprano, baritone soli; SATB chorus 1 1 3 1 - 1 0 0 0; mba., hp., strings
Autumnal (1986) for orchestra - 23'
2 (picc.) 2(eng.hn.) 2 (bass cl.) 2-4.2.2.1-timp. 2 perc.-pno./cel.-harp-strings
The Rhythm of the Running Plough (1985/88) - 14'
alto flute (doubles on picc. flute) vln. vc. perc.
Four Images (1986 rev. 1987) for orchestra - 21'
(I. Intrada II. Tempests III. Afterimage IV. Melodies) 3 (alto & picc.), .3
(eng.hn.), 2.blc., 3 (cbsn.) -4 perc. -pno./cel.2 hp.-strings
Three Images (1979) for chours with chamber orchestra - 15'
SATB chorus and soloists, narrator, 3 trombones, piano, 2 perc., strings
(4.0.4.2.1)
Three Yiddish Songs (1978/87) - 23'
soprano, horn, vln., vc., and piano
Rega-Rega (1974) for jazz ensemble - 16-20'
soprano sax, trumpet, trombone and amp. violin Soli, 4 sax (AATB), 4 tpt.,
3 trb., tuba bass, elec. pno., amplified piano, 2 perc.
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Stephen Jaffe’s music has been featured at major concerts and festivals including
the Nottingham, Tanglewood, and Oregon Bach Festivals, and heard throughout the U.S.,
Europe, and China by ensembles including the R.A.I. of Rome, the San Francisco and
New Jersey Symphonies, Berlin's Spectrum Concerts, among others. Jaffe has been the
recipient of numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, the Kennedy Center Friedheim
Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize, Brandeis Creative Arts
Citation, and fellowships from Tanglewood, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Guggenheim Foundation. Jaffe studied composition at the Conservatoire de Musique
in Geneva, and continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Mary
D.B.T. and James H. Semans Professor of Music at Duke University.
“Jaffe’s language is comprehensive and allows him to use basic tonal or modal
references, magically integrating them with a highly developed chromatic technique.
The instrumental writing is brilliant and sonorous; the orchestrational textures are
exquisite... My response to Jaffe’s music exceeds admiration. I simply love it.”
~ Yehudi Wyner, December 2003
"Jaffe’s Violin Concerto is a sensational piece that deserves the widest possible
dissemination among music lovers."
~ David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
“A virtuoso piece with genuine intellectual aspirations, combining rapt lyricism with
a sense of sonic adventure.”
~ Washington Post, January, 2004
(on Jaffe’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra)
“...truly original writing that never overstepped conventional bounds, yet never
sounded conventional either.”
~ New York Times
Upcoming Concerts
FOUR PIECES QUASI SONATA (for viola and piano)
Fromm Foundation Commission
Recitals by Jonathan Bagg, viola and Donald Berman, piano
Friday November 3 at 8
"Bluthner" house concert series
Winston Salem, NC
Stephen Jaffe Four Pieces Quasi Sonata (for viola and piano)
Takemitsu: A Bird came down the Walk" (vla & pno)
Arthur Levering: Tesserae (vla & pno)
Ligeti Sonata (viola solo)
Ives piano pieces
Sunday November 5 at 4pm
Mallarmé Chamber Players, Nelson Music Room, Duke University
program minus Ives and with Schumann Trio (Arturo Ciompi clarinet)
Monday, November 6, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
March 1 New Music @ East Carolina New Music festival
March 4 Southern Pines, NC, Weymouth Center Concert Series
POETRY OF THE PIEDMONT (for orchestra)
North Carolina Symphony Commission
Grant Llewellen, conducting
Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday/Saturday, January 26-27 2007 at 8 pm Meymandi Hall, Raleigh
Thursday, February 1, 2007, Carolina Theater, Durham
SONGS OF TURNING (1996)
Cantata for Soprano and Baritone Soloists, Chorus and Chamber Orchestra
Oregon Bach festival Commission
Terry Rhodes, soprano, Susan Klebanow, conducting
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 7:30 pm Memorial Hall
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
CONCERTO for Cello and Orchestra (2004)
National Symphony Commission
Saturday, April 28 at 8:00
Peabody Symphony Orchestra, David Hardy Cello,
Hajime Teri Murai, conducting. Friedberg concert Hall, Peabody Institute
of Music, Baltimore.
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