October 2023
Wednesday October 18
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble
Featuring Nemmers Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Tania León!
Full program:
Michael Gordon ‘Yo Shakespeare’
Elliott Lupp ‘I think my legs might be broken’ (world premiere)
Sam Pluta ‘Actuate/Resonate’
Tania León ‘Toque’Galvin Recital Hall – Evanston, IL
7:30pm
“Bolter spotlighted the showiest aspects…”
...and made it look easy.
(National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C.)
(National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C.)
Ben Bolter
2018-02-01T11:49:59-06:00
Joan Reinthaler, Washington Post
https://www.benbolter.com/testimonials/bolter-spotlighted-the-showiest-aspects/
“A mesmerizing exploration of resonance”
Bolter also led Northwestern University's Bienen Contemporary Music Ensemble in the Chicago premiere of Hans Thomalla's 'Wonderblock,' a sometimes mesmerizing exploration of resonance. Movement from watery long-sustained tones to ones clipped and dry repaid significant concentration.
Ben Bolter
2018-02-01T11:55:42-06:00
Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune
https://www.benbolter.com/testimonials/a-mesmerizing-exploration-of-resonance/
“We could only pray that… we could live long enough to experience something this great once again.”
As things progressed, Bolter, standing in the only illuminated spot in the entire auditorium, was swinging his arms wildly, pointing in every direction, increasing excitement as the music got louder and louder. Read the whole review on the press page.
Ben Bolter
2018-02-01T12:10:22-06:00
Louis Harris, Third Coast Review
https://www.benbolter.com/testimonials/we-could-only-pray-that-maybe-just-maybe-we-could-live-long-enough-to-experience-something-this-great-once-again/
“Bolter’s spontaneous zestfully-informed gestures…”
... led the musicians and thus the audience in an hour and a half of inspiration amid technical complexity...
Ben Bolter
2018-02-01T11:52:11-06:00
... led the musicians and thus the audience in an hour and a half of inspiration amid technical complexity... https://www.benbolter.com/testimonials/bolters-spontaneous-zestfully-informed-gestures/
“All business as he wove together Balter’s imaginative soundscape”
… cuing the young musicians at every entrance. As mentioned in his note, Balter sought to create a union between ICE and the youth ensemble, and, in that goal, the music was successful.
Ben Bolter
2018-02-01T12:09:23-06:00
Tyler Krause, Chicago Classical Review
https://www.benbolter.com/testimonials/all-business-imaginative-soundscape/
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Ben Bolter