Press release for “Words + Music”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Adam C. Butalewicz
Email: concert:nova@gmail.com
Phone: 513-739-6682

Images available upon request

concert:nova to Perform Words + Music

Program features Shakespeare, Haikus, “Juliet Letters”
and special guest Naomi Lewin

CINCINNATI – February 14, 2011 –The ground-breaking chamber music ensemble
concert:nova will present an eclectic program for romantics and realists
alike on February 28 at the Red Tree Art Gallery in Oakley and on March 3 at
the Mercantile Library downtown.

The performance features “The Juliet Letters” by Elvis Costello, a song
sequence for string quartet and voice based on imaginary letters sent to
Juliet Capulet care of Verona post office. The work defies classification.
Not quite a rock opera or a crossover, it is a unique soundscape for strings
and voices. We will hear the voice of singer/pianist Julie Spangler joined
by one of the CCM Theater program’s most talented students, Greg Tate.

Naomi Lewin, hostess of the award-winning weekly feature Classics for Kids
and Michael Burnham, head of CCM Drama department, will also be featured in
the program.

First-half appetizers include moving, humorous and delightful pieces
inspired by the Zen haiku poet Basho, sonnets and plays of William
Shakespeare, a lecture of Elie Wiesel, and three “Alice in Wonderland” poems
by Lewis Carroll. Michael Fiday, CCM faculty member, composes “Nine Haiku”
based on Basho’s Zen philosophy. Ned Rorem took inspiration from Shakespeare
in “After Reading Shakespeare,” a dramatic work for solo cello. Oswaldo
Golijov sets words from a lecture by Elie Wiesel in “There is Wind and There
Are Ashes in the Wind.” And finally, three poems of Lewis Carroll are the
centerpiece of “A Visit from the White Rabbit,” a hilarious piece for French
horn and narrator by Eric McIntyre.

Called “Cincinnati’s most innovative ensemble” by the Cincinnati Enquirer,
the ensemble seeks to provide a program of absorbing entertainment and
inspired pieces highlighting the work of modern living composers by world
class musicians and acclaimed guest speakers and dramaturge in our city.

The musicians of concert:nova are world-class performers: Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra Principal Horn Liz Freimuth, Principal Flute Randy
Bowman, Violinist Anna Reider and Heidi Yenney, Violist Joanne Wojtowicz,
Cellist Ted Nelson and Clarinetist Ixi Chen.

7:30pm Monday February 28, 2011, THE RED TREE GALLERY & COFFEE SHOP
(Oakley), 3210 Madison Road Cincinnati, OH 45209
7:30pm Thursday March 3, 2011, THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY, 414 Walnut St. 11th
Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 Ticket Hotline:
1-800-838-3006. or at the concert:nova website http://www.concertnova.com

For more information about the events and concert:nova, visit the ensemble’s
Web site at http://www.concertnova.com/ or call 513-739-NOVA (6682).

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Founded by Ixi Chen, chamber music ensemble concert:nova, has made great
strides in performing world class chamber music in diverse and unusual
venues using interdisciplinary collaboration to illuminate the music.
Comprising members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati
Chamber Orchestra, the group’s mission to perform in this way helps draw
audiences out of the traditional performance space setting, shedding light
on new and interesting ways to interpret classical music. concert:nova has
combined classical and modern chamber music with dance, theater,
photography, film and the spoken word to create an experience that is vital
and relevant to contemporary audiences.

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