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Alexandra Moravec '03 said she was "fascinated by the idea of people's hopes for the lives of their loved ones against all odds...
...think Faust is an impressive speaker, and I'm glad she's going to be the head of Radcliffe--she's clearly very intelligent and knowledgeable," Moravec added...
...older American tonalists as David Diamond and Ned Rorem and weakened in the '80s by the deliberately repetitive music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. But minimalism has proved too simple-minded to satisfy serious listeners hungry for accessible yet challenging new scores. Liebermann, Daniel Asia, Jorge Martin, Paul Moravec and George Tsontakis were among the first younger composers to snub its stuttering chatter in favor of a full-blooded style that is at once unmistakably contemporary (Liebermann, for instance, was influenced by the great 20th century Russian symphonist Dmitri Shostakovich) and rooted in the techniques of the past...
Emotional directness is the hallmark of the New Tonalism. "Musically, I say what I mean and mean what I say," explains Moravec. "The irony in my music is not glibly postmodern but rather the essence of making audible the human experience of ambiguity." Though Liebermann employs all the tools of the up-to-the-second composer--he even has a website, www.lowellliebermann.com--he too is quick to spurn the cheap irony of such trendy postmodernists as Britain's Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face). "We live in a sarcastic age," Liebermann says with a shrug. "A lot of intellectuals are uncomfortable...
...soul, renew its faith and hope...give me some vision of the future." Their confident vision of the future of American classical music is on display all this season, giving concertgoers and record buyers who are tired of warmed-over Brussels sprouts more reasons for standing ovations. Last November, Moravec's electrifying Mood Swings premiered in New York City, and three more New York premieres follow this May--Tsontakis' Ghost Variations for piano, Martin's song cycle The Glass Hammer and Liebermann's Trumpet Concerto. Just out from Summit Records is The Symphonic Works of Daniel Asia...