October 11, 1992
RUSSIAN STUDIES PROGRAM
CONTINUUM®
Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, Directors
Nan Hughes, Mezzo Soprano
David Krakauer, Clarinet
Cheryl Seltzer, Piano
Mark Steinberg, Violin, Viola
Joel Sachs, Piano, Conductor
Music from Moscow and St. Petersburg
8s00 P.M.
Qalina Ustvolskaya (b. 1919)
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1949, revised 1975)
Espressivo
Dolce
Energico
Sofia Qubaidulina (b. 1931)
Roses (1972): Five Romances to poems by Gennadi Aygi
A dream: The way across the field
Strange Bird
Roses in the hills
A field in midwinter
And: The roses wither
Sergei Slonimsky (b. 1932)
Coloristic Fantasy (1972)
Alfred Schnittke (b. 1934)
Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1968) "Quasi una sonata"
In one movement
Elizabeth Hall
INTERMISSION
Elena Firsova (b. 1950)
Dream (1988)
(text: Boris Pasternak)
Sonata for Clarinet Solo (1976)
In one movement
Leonid Hrabovsky (b. 1935)
Introduction and Nine Miniatures on poems of Velimir Klebnikov
(Commissioned by Continuum)
CONTINUUM® is a service mark of the Performers' Committee Inc., Cheryl Seltzer and Joel
Sachs, directors.
This concert is made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Knight Foundation and the Jesse Ball duPont Fund.
