Boston Musica Viva
Boston Musica Viva is a Boston, Massachusetts-based music ensemble founded by its music director, Richard Pittman, in 1969 and dedicated to contemporary music.
Composers and compositions
In its 44-year history, Boston Musica Viva has performed more than 600 works by over 250 composers. These include over 150 works written specifically for BMV, over 160 world premieres, and over 75 Boston premieres. Among the composers whose work the ensemble has performed are Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Taaffe Zwilich[1] John Harbison, Joseph Schwantner[2] and Steven Stucky.
World premieres
Boston Musica Viva has presented the world premieres of Thea Musgrave’s opera The Mocking-Bird, John Harbison’s A Full Moon in March, Theo Loevendie’s Gassir, the Hero, Martin Brody’s Heart of a Dog, and John Eaton’s Traveling with Gulliver.
Touring
In addition to its Boston concert season, Boston Musica Viva’s touring engagements have taken them to Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. The ensemble has made eight tours of Europe, making appearances that included the Settembre Musica Festival in Turin, Italy.
Boston Musica Viva has recorded for the Albany, Neuma, Delos, CRI, Nonesuch, Newport Classic and Northeastern Records labels.
Boston Musica Viva received an Aaron Copland Fund grant in 1993[3] and in 2003, the ensemble received the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming.
Partial list of composers with works premiered or performed by Boston Musica Viva
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Current and former members of Boston Musica Viva
Violin
Viola
Cello
Contrabass
Flute
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Clarinet
Bassoon
French horn
Trumpet
Trombone
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Percussion
Piano
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Performers who have appeared with Boston Musica Viva
- Composer, conductor and pianist Rob Kapilow
- Vocalist Dominique Eade
- Mezzo-soprano Janice Felty
- Pianist Randall Hodgkinson
- Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal
- Soprano Elizabeth Keusch
- Soprano Emily Thorner
References
- ^ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Seymour Topping; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 1-57356-111-8.
- ^ Rockwell, John. "Boston Musica Viva experiments in idioms". The New York Times. p. 10.
- ^ Dyer, Richard. "Classical Notes column". The Boston Globe.
External links
- Boston Musica Viva web site
- Richard Pittman web site
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- WGBH (FM) (1951)
- Maro and Anahid Ajemian (1952)
- Herman Neuman (1953)
- Green Bay Symphonietta (1954)
- George Szell (1955)
- Robert Whitney (1956)
- Howard Hanson / Juilliard String Quartet (1957)
- Thor Johnson (1958)
- Martha Graham / Jack Benny (1959)
- Howard Mitchell / Oliver Daniel (1960)
- Helen Thompson / William Strickland (1961)
- Bethany Beardslee / Hugh Ross / Samuel Rosenbaum (1962)
- Carl Haverlin / Claire Reis (1963)
- Walter Hinrichsen / Margaret L. Crofts / Max Pollikoff (1964)
- Henry Cowell / Avery Claflin / Elizabeth Ames (1965)
- Henry A. Moe / Lawrence Morton (1966)
- WBAI / Fromm Foundation (1967)
- Aaron Copland (1968)
- Group for Contemporary Music (1969)
- Otto Luening / Harris Danziger / Third Street Music Settlement School (1970)
- Alice M. Ditson Fund (1971)
- Leopold Stokowski (1972)
- MacDowell Colony (1973)
- Teresa Sterne (1974)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1975)
- Gunther Schuller (1976)
- Arthur Weisberg (1977)
- James Dixon (1978)
- Ralph Shapey (1979)
- John Duffy / Meet the Composer / Joseph Machlis (1980)
- Carter Harman (1981)
- Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music (1982)
- Lukas Foss (1983)
- Opus One / Max Schubel / Ernest S. Heller (1984)
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1985)
- Raymond Des Roches (1986)
- Francis Thorne (1987)
- American Music Center (1988)
- Betty Allen / The Harlem School of the Arts / Mimi Stern-Wolfe (1989)
- Center for New Music (1990)
- Boston Musica Viva (1991)
- Cleveland Chamber Symphony (1992)
- Leonard Slatkin (1993)
- Society for New Music (1994)
- Minnesota Composers Forum (1995)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group (1996)
- Speculum Musicae (1997)
- David Alan Miller (1998)
- Lou Rodgers (1999)
- Gregg Smith Singers (2003)
- Fred Sherry (2007)
- Harold Rosenbaum (2008)
- Phyllis Bryn-Julson (2009)
- innova Recordings (2012)