Author: Rain Worthington
Subject: Lake Placid, NY: World Premiere of Hilary Tann's "Solstice" commissioned by Ricochet Duo
August 17, 2014 World Premiere of Hilary Tann's Solstice for marimba and piano Commissioned and Performed by the Ricochet Duo
RICOCHET DUO PREMIERES ITS “WOODSWOMAN PROJECT” HONORING ADIRONDACK ICON AT LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR THE ARTS
7:30pm Lake Placid Arts Center 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY In Advance: $10 At Door: $15 For tickets: 518.523.2512 https://www.lakeplacidarts.org/performances/ricochet-duo-presents-woodswoman-project
Paying tribute to one of the Adirondack’s most treasured personalities, Anne LaBastille, Ricochet Duo (Rose Chancler, piano & Jane Boxall, marimba) will be unveiling a special concert program at The Lake Placid Center for the Arts honoring the late Adirondack conservationist, self-proclaimed Woodswoman, author, and friend. The program includes the world premieres of three new compositions commissioned by Ricochet Duo for this concert. The works, written for piano and marimba, are from composers Hilary Tann, Doug Opel, and Bill Pfaff.
• Solstice by Hilary Tann • Playtime with Elvis and Krispy by Doug Opel • Lichen by Bill Pfaff
The program also includes On Curious Reflection by composer Rain Worthington which was written in 2009 for Ricochet Duo and funded by a Seed Money grant from New York Women Composers.
A friend and neighbor of pianist Rose Chancler, Anne LaBastille (1933-2011) was quite a force of nature in her own right. In the New York Times, Dennis Hevesi wrote, “The gratifying struggle for Anne LaBastille was how to balance her yearning for the serenity of solitude in the wilderness with her mission to let the world know, as best she could, that it must preserve wilderness.”
For most of her life, Anne LaBastille lived alone alongside the shores of a remote lake in the Adirondacks in a small log cabin that she, quite literally, built herself. It was in the Adirondacks that she wrote her four-volume Woodswoman autobiography.
Ricochet Duo’s Woodswoman Project honors Anne LaBastille’s tireless work as an international environmentalist, author, and icon for women by way of weaving together music, sounds, images, and light. The concert repertoire has been selected to celebrate and focus on four tenets of LaBastille’s work: water … woods … birds … silence
The multimedia program also includes stunning photography from regional and Adirondack photographers Mark Bowie, Shaun Heffernan, and Carl Heilman II, that will be paired with specific musical works. A photo album of select photos from Anne’s personal collection that has been provided to Ricochet Duo for this program by the Anne LaBastille estate is also to be shared via a slide show.
Solstice | Hilary Tann Composer’s Note: Solstice was commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswoman books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle"). The "full circle" of the piece, from Breakup ("prelude to spring" I/p.146) to Freeze-up ("prelude to winter" I/p.1), is as follows:
Breakup: "imperceptible dissolution" (I/p.146) I. WHITE PINES: "this strange attunement" (I/p.56) II. LILYPAD LAKE: "Sainte Terre - my holy land" (II/p.212) III. KESTREL: "flying into the wind" (III/p.125) Freeze-up: "icy slivers and darts" (I/p.6)
Subject: Lake Placid, NY: World Premiere of Hilary Tann's "Solstice" commissioned by Ricochet Duo
August 17, 2014 World Premiere of Hilary Tann's Solstice for marimba and piano Commissioned and Performed by the Ricochet Duo
RICOCHET DUO PREMIERES ITS “WOODSWOMAN PROJECT” HONORING ADIRONDACK ICON AT LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR THE ARTS
7:30pm Lake Placid Arts Center 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY In Advance: $10 At Door: $15 For tickets: 518.523.2512 https://www.lakeplacidarts.org/performances/ricochet-duo-presents-woodswoman-project
Paying tribute to one of the Adirondack’s most treasured personalities, Anne LaBastille, Ricochet Duo (Rose Chancler, piano & Jane Boxall, marimba) will be unveiling a special concert program at The Lake Placid Center for the Arts honoring the late Adirondack conservationist, self-proclaimed Woodswoman, author, and friend. The program includes the world premieres of three new compositions commissioned by Ricochet Duo for this concert. The works, written for piano and marimba, are from composers Hilary Tann, Doug Opel, and Bill Pfaff.
• Solstice by Hilary Tann • Playtime with Elvis and Krispy by Doug Opel • Lichen by Bill Pfaff
The program also includes On Curious Reflection by composer Rain Worthington which was written in 2009 for Ricochet Duo and funded by a Seed Money grant from New York Women Composers.
A friend and neighbor of pianist Rose Chancler, Anne LaBastille (1933-2011) was quite a force of nature in her own right. In the New York Times, Dennis Hevesi wrote, “The gratifying struggle for Anne LaBastille was how to balance her yearning for the serenity of solitude in the wilderness with her mission to let the world know, as best she could, that it must preserve wilderness.”
For most of her life, Anne LaBastille lived alone alongside the shores of a remote lake in the Adirondacks in a small log cabin that she, quite literally, built herself. It was in the Adirondacks that she wrote her four-volume Woodswoman autobiography.
Ricochet Duo’s Woodswoman Project honors Anne LaBastille’s tireless work as an international environmentalist, author, and icon for women by way of weaving together music, sounds, images, and light. The concert repertoire has been selected to celebrate and focus on four tenets of LaBastille’s work: water … woods … birds … silence
The multimedia program also includes stunning photography from regional and Adirondack photographers Mark Bowie, Shaun Heffernan, and Carl Heilman II, that will be paired with specific musical works. A photo album of select photos from Anne’s personal collection that has been provided to Ricochet Duo for this program by the Anne LaBastille estate is also to be shared via a slide show.
Solstice | Hilary Tann Composer’s Note: Solstice was commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswoman books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle"). The "full circle" of the piece, from Breakup ("prelude to spring" I/p.146) to Freeze-up ("prelude to winter" I/p.1), is as follows:
Breakup: "imperceptible dissolution" (I/p.146) I. WHITE PINES: "this strange attunement" (I/p.56) II. LILYPAD LAKE: "Sainte Terre - my holy land" (II/p.212) III. KESTREL: "flying into the wind" (III/p.125) Freeze-up: "icy slivers and darts" (I/p.6)