UPCOMING PREMIERES, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:30 p.m., premiere of ECLIPSE piano solo on Ketevan Badridze's faculty recital Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN

ECLIPSE, a musical portrait of a solar eclipse for solo piano, is dedicated with great gratitude to Ketevan “Katie” Badridze, a stellar pianist and human being.  ECLIPSE was commissioned by a faculty development grant I received Spring 2009 from the Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend.

ECLIPSE, 18 min. duration, has three movements:

1. Radiant Inferno (dramatic musical contrasts which mirror the extremes of molten sunlight and threatening darkness);
2. The Eclipse (the Moon’s umbral shadow gradually encroaches on and then obliterates the Sun’s light;)
3. Radiance Revealed (the softly shimmering sun grows in strength and finally shines forth with renewed brilliance).

Friday, December 4, 2009, 7 p.m., International Alliance of Women in Music - Midwest Composers Recital Sherwood Conservatory of Music, 1312 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

Internationally performed Midwest area composers Dolores White, Patricia Morehead, Marjorie M. Rusche, Janice Misurell-Mitchell and Elizabeth Start will premiere new chamber works for voice, winds and strings Friday evening, December 4th, 7 p.m. at Sherwood Conservatory of Music, located at 1312 South Michigan Avenue in the south loop of Chicago.  The compositions comment on universal human experience, the awesome beauty of the natural world, dance rhythms, the mysteries of space and the search for the divine. Audience members are encouraged to meet and greet the composers and performers after the free concert. Performers include instrumentalists from MusicNOW, Accessible Chamber Music,  Dal Niente and CUBE (Elizabeth Choi, Mark Longo, Jay Pike, Dan Klinger, Patricia Morehead, Christie Miller, Lawrence Axelrod, Elizabeth Start, Matthew Ganong, Janice Misurell-Mitchell and Austin Wulliman).

Program Note for Marjorie M. Rusche's Voyageur d'Arctic :

Voyageur d'Arctic, for flute, violin, viola, and cello, is a musical Alaskan travelogue dedicated in honor of the memory of my mother, Alice Maxine (Collins) Rusche, with whom I took the trip to Alaska. Voyageur d'Arctic is part of a series of Arctic compositions which include Arctic Voyager for flute, koto, violin, viola & cello commissioned by Ensemble East West, Portland, OR and Arctic Chill for string orchestra commissioned by Aaron Berofsky for the Indiana University South Bend Philharmonic. The movements are:

1. Midnight Sun (dramatic musical contrasts which mirror the extremely long summer days and winter nights in the Arctic region);
2. Glacier Bay (features extended techniques for the instruments to portray the eerie, calm, cool, clear, ice-chunked bay);
3. Ship’s Wake (a presto perpetual motion movement inspired by the repetitive overlapping churning patterns found in the ocean trail of the ship’s wake);
4. Sealight (varied hues from light reflected on the surface of water and ice, the sun sinking into the ocean’s depths – then the gleaming moonglow).

Friday, November 6th, 2009, 9 p.m., 12th London New Wind Festival and Women in Music UK Joint Event

PIANO PORTRAITS: NIGHTWATCH Mvt. II. Bluesy Cantabile

PIANO PORTRAITS: NIGHTWATCH Mvt. II. Bluesy Cantabile will receive its London, England premiere at Regent Hall by pianist Robert Coleridge Friday, November 6th, 2009, 9 p.m. on the 12th London New Wind Festival and Women in Music UK Joint Event.

The entire 11 min. work has been previously performed by Tamar Mikeladze, piano; Recital Hall, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, 3/11/05; and premiered by Maria Stablein, piano; College Music Society Great Lakes Chapter Composers Concert, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, 4/4/03.

Thursday, February 26th, 2009, 8 p.m., Music Across the Atlantic

Indiana University South Bend Campus Auditorium; Elisabed Imerlishvili, pianist

MODERN MIXTURES: PIANO SONATA

1. Cantabile Rondo, 2. Misterioso, 3. Scherzo

MODERN MIXTURES fuses international modernist, American vernacular and Georgian folk music influences in a three movement piano sonata of 20 minutes duration.

Marjorie M. Rusche's new piano sonata premiered Friday, JUNE 27th, 2008 on the PianoForte Salon Series, 12:15 p.m., in the PianoForte Studio, Suite #825, Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL The concert was also radio broadcast live on the air on WFMT 98.7 FM, Chicago Public Radio.

Saturday, 7:00 p.m., October 25th, 2008, on New Music in the Gallery I, Chicago

CHANTING TO PARADISE, SSAA choral work

1. I Saw no Way

Marjorie M. Rusche will have Movement I "I Saw no Way" from her SSAA choral work CHANTING TO PARADISE (poetry by Emily Dickinson) performed Saturday, 7:00 p.m., October 25th, 2008 on a New Music in the Gallery I concert presented by the Chicago Composers Forum at Ossia Fine Arts Space, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL The concert will be conducted by Lois Veenhoven Guderian.

Friday, 12:15 p.m., June 27th, 2008 on the PianoForte Salon Series, Chicago

MODERN MIXTURES: PIANO SONATA

1. Cantabile Rondo, 2. Misterioso, 3. Scherzo

Marjorie M. Rusche's new piano sonata will premiere Friday, JUNE 27th, 2008 on the PianoForte Salon Series, 12:15 p.m., in the PianoForte Studio, Suite #825, Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL The concert is also radio broadcast live on the air on WFMT 98.7 FM, Chicago Public Radio.

MODERN MIXTURES fuses international modernist, American vernacular and Georgian folk music influences in a three movement piano sonata of 18 minutes duration.

Hsiao-Ling Lin (www.hsiaolinglin.com), a recent graduate of Maestra Eteri Andjaparidze's studio at DePaul University in Chicago, will premiere the MODERN MIXTURES: PIANO SONATA along with works from the standard repertoire. A versitile performer, pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin has performed widely as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Russia, Australia and her native Taiwan. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, Music Adacemy of the West in Santa Barbara, International Festival-Institute at Round Top and Banff Centre for the Arts. A chamber music enthusiast, Ms. Lin has collaborated with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Minnesota Orchestra. As an orchestral keyboardist, Ms. Lin has worked under the baton of Joseph Silverstien, Kazuyoski Akiyama, Jefferey Tate, Ludovic Morlot, Benjamin Zander and Cliff Colnot in prestigious halls such as the Jordan Hall in Boston and the Sydney Opera House. Ms. Lin has premiered both solo and chamber works extensively and has played with various contemporary ensembles. She also appeared live on radio stations such as Boston's WGBH and Chicago's WFMT. Her principal teachers include Eteri Andjaparidze, Victor Rosenbaum, Irma Vallecillo, Boris Lvov, Ling-Ju Ou and Yi-Hsien Chang.

Music Across The Atlantic (Encuentro entre la IUSB y el CONSMUPA)

Salon de actos del Museo de Bellas Artes de Oviedo; Dia 19 de diciembre de 2007, 19 Horas

TONE POEMS FOR BASSOON AND PIANO 1. Turnings, 2. Nocturne, 3. Scherzo; Rafael Zanon, fagot; Sergey Bezrodny, piano.

MOOD ETUDES 6 estudios para dos clarinetes en Si bemol 1. Searching, 2. Suave, 3. Frolicsome, 4. Broody, 5. Pastorale, 6. Multiples; Miguel Angel Font, Bb clarinete; Rocio F. Garin, Bb clarinete. 7

PARANORMAL TRANSITS: COSMIC CLOWNS

narrator, oboe, bass, percussion, dancer

Sunday, October 7, 2007, 1:35 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.

Location 3A, Preston Bradley Hall, 3rd Floor, Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Composers Forum MUSICIRCUS

PARANORMAL TRANSITS: COSMIC CLOWNS for narrator, oboe, bass, percussion and dancer transports us to the emotionally rich and fluid transitional worlds between flesh and spirit. The texts -- by the composer -- are a collage of dream states, perceived spirit visitations, Biblical passages, newspaper clippings, and overhead conversations.

COMMENTS, a short song cycle for soprano and piano. 8 min. Poetry by Dorothy Parker.

Laurel Thomas, soprano; Jeffrey Jacob, piano Composition Recital, Recital Hall, Room 158 Northside Hall, Indiana University South Bend8:00 p.m., Thursday, March 29, 2007

CHRISTMAS POSTLUDE, In Dulci Jubilo and Stille Nacht arr. for organ. 3 min. First United Methodist Church, South Bend, IN, Betty Woodland, organist, December 17, 2006.

ARCTIC VOYAGER for flute, koto, violin, viola, and cello will premiere on a “Global Voyages for Six 2006” this fall with Tessa Brinckman and Ensemble East West in Portland, Oregon.

Ms. Rusche will curate the concert, relating each musical piece to the theme of “journeying”, noting how the internal creative process is externalized, how external events are incorporated into musical narrative, and how geography and a sense of “place” influence musical composition.

Other works being presented on the “Global Voyages for Six 2006” concerts are Gordon Lee’s arrangement of Jim Pepper’s Wichi-Tai-To (Native American jazz); Piazzolla’s Libertango arranged by Mark Fish (Argentinean); Bongani Ndodana’s Trio (South African); Albert Roussel’s Serenade Op. 30 (French); and Iris Sharaishi’s Saga No Aki (American Japanese).

Ms. Rusche will moderate an open rehearsal/workshop at the Belmont Library Friday, September 8, 11:30 a.m., and will be a “Wednesday Feast” speaker, September 13, 6:45 p.m. (the feast starts at 5:45 p.m.), regarding her compositional work at the First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder, Portland, OR, 503-228-7331.

Sunday, September 10, 2006, 3:00 p.m.            First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder, Music & Art Concert Series

Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:00 p.m.          Midland Regional Library, 805 SE 122nd, Portland, OR, 503-988-5392

Sunday, September 17, 2006, 2:00 p.m.           Multnomah Downtown Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave, 503-988-5382

This project is supported by funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, Oregon.

Program Note: Arctic Voyager, for flute, koto, violin, viola, and cello, is dedicated to Tessa Brinckman & Ensemble East West in honor of the memory of my mother, Alice Maxine (Collins) Rusche, with whom I took the trip to Alaska. Arctic Voyager, an arrangement of an earlier work of mine, Arctic Chill for string orchestra, has four movements with a total duration of 15 minutes: Midnight Sun (dramatic musical contrasts which mirror the extremely long summer days and winter nights in the Arctic region); Glacier Bay (features extended techniques for the instruments to portray the eerie, calm, cool, clear, ice-chunked bay); Ship’s Wake (a presto perpetual motion movement inspired by the repetitive overlapping churning patterns found in the ocean trail of the ship’s wake); Sealight (varied hues from light reflected on the surface of water and ice, the sun sinking into the ocean’s depths – then the gleaming moonglow).