NSC June2024 Lifchitz Yellow Ribbons No 40

Описание: MAX LIFCHITZ Yellow Ribbons No. 40 (2005)
I. Distant Fanfare
II. Waging Peace
III. Days of Wrath
IV. Reveries
Max Lifchitz, conductor
The North/South Chamber Orchestra

JUNE 23, 2024

www.northsouthmusic.org

Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. Robert Commanday, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "a young composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist." The New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances” while Anthony Tommasini remarked that he “conducted a strong performance.” Payton MacDonald writing for the American Record Guide remarked ”Mr. Lifchitz is as good on the podium as he is behind the piano.”

The work is in four contrasting but inter-connected movements. The opening Distant Fanfare features the French horn and introduces the listener to the rhythmic and melodic gestures employed later in the work. The second movement Waging Peace is a song without words expressing the composer’s hope for tranquility and world harmony. The texture of the third movement – Days of Wrath – results from the coexistence of conflicting musical gestures derived from several sources including the ancient Gregorian chant Dies Irae. Reveries is an understated conclusion to the work where melodic fragments reminiscent of materials heard throughout the work float in and out of the texture.

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