Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:32:16 -0800WeeblyMon, 06 Feb 2012 08:03:20 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2012/02/critics-picks-classical-music.htmlBoston Globe, February 5, 2012 — Among the notable upcoming chamber events are ... a Boston Jewish Music Festival concert devoted to the Yiddish art songs of Lazar Weiner, directed from the piano by his son, composer Yehudi Wyner (March 4).
]]>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:18:26 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2012/01/yehudi-wyner-to-perform-his-music-with-the-brooklyn-art-song-society.htmlBrooklyn Art Song Society, January 13, 2012 — The second season of the Society’s smash-success new music series will feature the works of Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner paired with masterworks by Barber, Brahms, and Shostakovich.

Artists: Melissa Fogarty, soprano; Paul An, bass; Michael Brofman, Piano;Michael Rose, piano; Tema Watstien, violin; Mariel Roberts; cello

Special Guests: Dominique Labelle, soprano; Yehudi Wyner, piano

• Artist: Brooklyn Art Song Society
• Tour: In Context: Yehudi Wyner
• Date: Friday, February 24th 2012
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Brooklyn
• Venue: Bargemusic
• Address: Fulton Ferry Landing

]]>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2011/05/first-post.htmlNew York Times, May 26, 2011‎ — Yehudi Wyner’s accessible, amusing “Mad Tea-Party,” a setting of a scene from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” closed the concert, with Ms. Slywotzky playing an astute Alice, Mr. Blumberg as the Mad Hatter, and Mr. Murphree as the March Hare. Here the concert’s palette expanded somewhat: the singers and Ms. Kampmeier were joined by Harumi Rhodes, violinist; Katherine Cherbas, cellist; and Jennifer Grim, flutist. They gave the music a bright, lively reading.
]]>Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2011/05/woodlands-celebrates-students-talents-in-art-music.htmlPatch, May 15, 2011 — Under the direction of senior Kaitlin Donnelly of Winnetka, the 10-member a capella group, “Microscope,” will perform a number of their competition pieces, including Shir Ha-Shirim  by Yehudi Wyner and Faith is the Bird That Feels the Light by Elizabeth Alexander, which earned the group a Gold rating award at the National Heritage Festival competition. The combined choirs and orchestra will end the evening with Adiemus,  from Songs of Sanctuary by Karl Jenkins.
]]>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2011/04/yehudi-wyner-the-intimacy-of-creativity.htmlHong Kong University of Science and Technology — Awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his Piano Concerto, "Chiavi in mano", Yehudi Wyner (b.1929) is one of America's most versatile musicians. His compositions include over 80 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo voice and solo instruments, piano, chorus, and music for the theater, as well as liturgical services for worship.
]]>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2010/11/give-thanks-a-premiere-and-inspiration.htmlHarvard Arts Beat, November 8th, 2010 — As one who has had the transformative experience of studying in Harvard’s unique chamber music course Music 180 withYehudi Wyner and Daniel Stepner, I am happy to report on what the Boston Globe called the “keenly anticipated” premiere of Yehudi Wyner’s composition, Give Thanks for All Things for orchestra and chorus. The work had its world premiere on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 at Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory performed by the Cantata Singers and Ensemble and conducted by David Hoose, music director of the Cantata Singers. Give Thanks for All Things is based on two Psalms, poems by Richard Wilbur and Walt Whitman, a passage from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and the Breton fisherman’s prayer, “Dear Lord be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small.”
]]>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2010/10/an-interview-with-yehudi-wyner.htmlThe Berkshire Review, October 27, 2010 — Yehudi Wyner, whose career as a composer and a performing musician goes back some sixty years, finds himself entirely focused on the present at the moment, and very positively so. For one thing, Bridge Records, who have issued the most substantial body of his work on CD, have released his collected sacred music, and Mr. Wyner is very pleased to have it all together in one place. Secondly, he is anticipating the premiere of a new work, a secular cantata called Give Thanks for All Things. As he explains in the interview we now offer as our latest podcast, the work didn't come to him easily, and, although he refuses to pass judgment on it until he hears it played before an audience, he is looking forward to hearing it performed by one of his favorite groups and conductors, The Cantata Singers under David Hoose. Beyond that, he is busily at work revising his Fragments from Antiquity (1978) for a performance by his favorite soprano, Dominique Labelle, with the Lexington Symphony in February, 2011.

In this podcast we talk mostly about Mr. Wyner's formative experiences at the American Academy in Rome, musicians and composers, opera production — yes,Regieoper, too — and his own music and the musical traditions he draws upon, above all his upcoming premiere.
]]>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2010/08/festival-has-familiar-faces-if-not-always-music-for-an-anniversary.htmlNew York Times, August 17, 2010 — Other flavors of accessibility included Yehudi Wyner’s plush, decidedly nonangular “Passage” (1983) and Steven Mackey’s “Gaggle and Flock” (2001), with its thick double string quartet texture and picturesque sliding string figures, both on Saturday. 

]]>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2010/02/christopher-lydon-yehudi-wyners-life-in-music-composer-with-piano-hands.htmlHuffington Post, February 24, 2010 — Yehudi Wyner is an approachable guy in a forbidding field: contemporary "serious" music. He gives us an opening here to ask where new sounds come from. In his case new music comes out of a sort of compost of the canon, from Bach to Bartok, and then everything else he's heard over 80 years, from his father's Yiddish art songs to boogie-woogie and gospel music. "Somehow it registers in the brain and has an effect," he says of the past. The other big thing you'll be hearing from Yehudi Wyner is that his music has its very bodily beginning in his hands. It's a physical, almost gymnastic test of what ten fingers can do, want to do, find themselves doing.
]]>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.yehudiwyner.com/2/post/2010/01/the-52nd-annual-grammy-awards-arrivals.htmlLife, January 31, 2010 — Composer Yehudi Wyner and daughter arrive at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
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