"Midnight to Noontime" In Just Over an Hour

CHICAGO - Sept. 10, 2015 - PRLog -- Joseph Rescigno will guest conduct Roosevelt’s CCPA Contemporary Ensemble in its first concert of the 2015-16 season, on Friday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the seventh-floor Ganz Hall of Roosevelt University, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

The varied program of music from the 20^th and 21^st centuries will include Notturno Romano by Nicolas Flagello, with whom Maestro Rescigno studied, plus works by Luigi Dallapiccola, Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell and Silvestre Revueltas. The concert also will include a world premiere, Infinite Gaze, by CCPA Associate Professor of Music Composition Dr. Kyong Mee Choi. The concert will be recorded for possible broadcast.

“I’ve called the concert ‘Midnight to Noontime’,” says Maestro Rescigno, “because in a little over an hour, the music will trace a progression from night to day, from dark to light.

“We start with Dallapiccola, in a Spanish village square in the middle of the night. We move to Rome for Flagello’s version of night music. Dr. Choi’s piece offers different views of the Earth and other celestial bodies from the perspective of deep space. Babbitt’s work is not the least bit programmatic, but its sound world evokes the stars. We begin to see daylight with Cowell’s Sinfonietta, which gets rather peppy, and end up in the sun with the revelry of the Revueltas, whose rhythms approach those of salsa.”

“MIDNIGHT TO NOONTIME”

CCPA Contemporary Ensemble

Joseph Rescigno, conductor

Complete Program:

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) – Piccola musica notturna (1954)

Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994) – Notturno Romano (1942)

Kyong Mee Choi (1971) – Infinite Gaze (WORLD PREMIERE)

Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) – Composition for twelve instruments (1948, rev. 1954)

Henry Cowell (1897-1965) – Sinfonietta (1928)

Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) – Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (1936)

The concert will be performed without an intermission

Friday, October 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Ganz Hall

Chicago College of Performing Arts | Roosevelt University

430 South Michigan Avenue, 7^th Floor

Chicago, IL 60605

This concert is free and open to the public.
Tickets are not required; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Guests without a Roosevelt ID may be required to show photo identification

to enter the Auditorium Building.

For more information call: 312/341-2352

http://www.roosevelt.edu/News_and_Events/Calendar/EventDetails.aspx?ccpaid=206870


About Joseph Rescigno

Joseph Rescigno has conducted for more than 50 companies on four continents. Since 1981, he has served as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee (WI), where he has conducted some of the company’s most challenging repertory. He also has been Music Director of La Musica Lirica, a summer program for singers in Northern Italy, since 2005. And he served as Artistic Director of Metropolitan Orchestra of Greater Montreal, Quebec for four seasons.

In his permanent and guest engagements, Maestro Rescigno traverses the repertory from new works like Minoru Miki’s Jōruri andDon Davis’s Río de Sangre (both world premieres under his baton) to rarities like Rossini’s 1816 La Gazzetta. He also champions neglected contemporary works like Barber’s Vanessa, while conducting a broad swath of operas from the standard literature. This includes Mozart’s seminal pieces; works from Italian composers like Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, and Puccini; romantic French operas of Bizet, Gounod, and Saint-Saëns; and works from the German school, particularly those of Wagner and Richard Strauss. In addition, Maestro Rescigno has conducted masterworks of the choral literature as well as symphonies and concertos from the baroque to the contemporary—sometimes from the keyboard in works from earlier eras.

As a guest artist, Maestro Rescigno has conducted the New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Seattle Opera, Atlanta Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Omaha, Arizona Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Vancouver Opera, Hungarian State Opera, Teatro Bellini, l’Opéra de Marseille, and l’Opéra de Montréal, among others. The symphony orchestras he has conducted include the Montreal Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony, both of which he has led in their regular subscription series as well as in opera productions. In addition, he won Quebec’s Prix Opus for a program of all five Beethoven piano concertos with Anton Kuerti and the Metropolitan Orchestra of Greater Montreal.

Maestro Rescigno’s discography includes recordings of the aforementioned world premieres, Río de Sangre (for Albany Records)and Jōruri (for Dreamlife Corp.). He recorded two solo operatic anthologies for Analekta of Canada featuring Lyne Fortin (Mozart) and Diana Soviero (the highly regarded Verismo). Also for Analekta, he conducted three symphonic albums with works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn.

This native New Yorker comes from a long line of musicians on both sides of his family. He trained as a pianist and has been studying and performing music since childhood. His uncle was the prominent conductor Nicola Rescigno, a founder of both the Dallas Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He holds a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music and studied with distinguished teachers and composers in the United States and Europe. Maestro Rescigno further apprenticed with eminent conductors and has since been privileged to collaborate with prominent musicians of three generations.

A born teacher, Joseph Rescigno derives tremendous gratification from working with young musicians in student orchestras and singers in master classes. Recent university opera engagements include Verdi’s La traviata at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and Rossini’s rarely-performed La Gazzetta at New England Conservatory. Multi-lingual, he readily gives lively and informative talks before performances, illustrating examples on a piano when possible. He is also working on his first book, The View from the Pit: Where Theater Meets Music.  http://www.concertatore.com