July 30, 2013 / 7pm
Housing Works / 126 Crosby Street NYC
CD Launch: Timo Andres
Celebrating our Third Studio Album Release
FEATURED GUESTS
Timo Andres, Composer / Pianist
Leo Carey, Editor, The New Yorker
Peter Mendelsund, Art Director
On The Program
Timo Andres: Home Stretch
Timo Andres: Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno*
Timo Andres: Mozart "Coronation" Re-Composition*
*Metropolis Ensemble commissions
About the Concert
FREE cocktail reception for all guests following the event.
Housing Works Bookstore is pleased to host a discussion with pianist/composer Timo Andres, artist/book designer Peter Mendelsund, and The New Yorker's Leo Carey. Andres, whose most recent album, Home Stretch, explores and recreates pieces by Mozart and Brian Eno, is a huge admirer of Peter Mendelsund, who has designed book jackets for iconic authors such as Joyce, Kafka, Cortázar, and Foucault. Together with the help of critic Carey, they will talk about their respective "anxiety of influences" and the ways in which they hope to remain faithful to a tradition while making it their own. Andres will also perform his own music and works by Brian Eno and Mozart on piano. Copies of Home Stretch, which releases that day, will be on sale.
On Home Stretch (Nonesuch Records), Andres performs with Andrew Cyr and Metropolis Ensemble, pairing the title work with two newly commissioned works* of reinventions by musical heroes Mozart and Brian Eno: Mozart's "Coronation” concerto and Paraphrase on Themes by Brian Eno. Preorder from Nonesuch today and receive an exclusive print of the first page of the Home Stretch score, autographed by the composer.
The album was recorded at Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood with producer David Frost. It is Andres's second album with the Nonesuch label; his first, Shy and Mighty, was praised by the New York Times for its "inventiveness and originality," and by the Guardian for the way it "glides across stylistic boundaries in a totally unselfconscious way."
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ALBUM CREDITS
Produced by David Frost
Recording engineers: Tim Martyn and Charlie Post
Edited and mixed by David Frost and Tim Martyn
Piano technician: Barbara Renner
Recorded September 6 - 7, 2011 in Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts
Piano Courtesy of: Steinway and Sons
Major Support for Home Stretch was generously provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Robert D. Bielecki, Crosswicks, Mikhail Iliev, The June K. Wu Artist Fund with additional support from Deutsche Bank USA, Kenny Greif, Cristiane Lemos, Jennifer and Eduardo Loja, Rodney McDaniel, Carol Whitcomb, Roy and Diana Vagelos.
Special Thanks: Stephanie Amarnick, David Kaplan, Adrian Knight, Britton Matthews, and Jenna Mulberry.
"Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno" and Mozart "Coronation" Re-Composition are Metropolis Ensemble commissions (2010).
Metropolis Ensemble artists appearing in Home Stretch: Andrew Cyr, Conductor; Timothy Andres, solo piano; Lance Suzuki, Flute; James Austin Smith, Oboe; Carl Oswald, Oboe; Adrian Morejon, Bassoon; Rebekah Heller, Bassoon; Danielle Rose Kuhlmann, Horn; Leelanee Sterrett, Horn; Paul Murphy, Trumpet; Jeff Missal, Trumpet; Conor Hanick, Piano; Britton Matthews, Percussion; Sean Statser, Percussion; Violin: Owen Dalby, Amalia Hall, Sheryl Hwangbo, Siwoo Kim, Kristin Lee, Sean Lee (Concertmaster), Miho Saegusa, Emily Smith, Elly Suh, Emma Sutton, Tema Watstein; Viola: David Auerbach, Phil Kramp, Eric Nowlin; Cello: Na-Young Baek, Ashley Bathgate, Hiro Matsuo; Bass: Rachel Calin, Evan Premo