The New Juilliard Ensemble to perform Baley symphony

NEW YORK - The New Juilliard Ensemble, conducted by Joel Sachs, will give the second New York performance of Virko Baley's Symphony No. 2 "Red Earth" at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center at 8 p.m.

The work by the acclaimed Ukrainian American composer is featured in a concert honoring the Juilliard centennial with pieces that have been written for the New Juilliard Ensemble. Symphony No. 2 "Red Earth" was first performed at Alice Tully Hall in 2004.

Comprising the concert program will also be works by Agustín Fernández, "Peregrine" (1996, rev. 2005); Liu Sola, "In Corporeal" (1998); Miguel del Aguila "Conga-line in Hell" (1994); and, Adam Schoenberg, "Chiaroscuro" (2005).

Tickets to the concert are free and available at the Juilliard Box Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, beginning on November 7. For ticket information call (212) 769-7406.

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Mr. Baley's Symphony No. 1, "Sacred Monuments," performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, with Mr. Baley as conductor, is now available on the TNC Classical label, TNC 1505. The work is an homage to four great Ukrainian composers, three from the 18th and early 19th centuries, Maksym Berezovsky (1745-1777), Artem Vedel (c. 1770-1808) and Dmitrii Bortniansky (1751-1825); and the fourth from the 20th century, Borys Liatoshynsky (1895-1968).

A new recording, "Uniforms of Snow," featuring Mr. Baley's song cycle of Emily Dickinson poems sung by soprano Lucy Shelton with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Mr. Baley conducting, will be available in December (TNC 1516).

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Mr. Baley is distinguished professor of music and composer-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A composer, conductor and pianist, he is the recipient of the 1996 Shevchenko Prize for Music awarded by the Ukrainian government, and Nevada's Regents' Creative Award. As principal guest conductor and music advisor of the Kiev [sic] Camerata in Ukraine, he has led the ensemble in over 15 CD recordings of orchestral music.

An eminent authority on Soviet music, his entries on the music of Ukraine have been published in "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera" and "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Mr. Baley is founder and, for many years, served as conductor and music director of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra in Las Vegas.

Information on Mr. Baley's recording and distribution companies may be found on the website www.tncmusic.net or by calling (800) 253-7675. Mr. Baley's website is located at www.virkobaley.com.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 20, 2005, No. 47, Vol. LXXIII

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