New Music Delaware Virtual Concert 1

Welcome to our first New Music Delaware Virtual Concert. New Music Delaware has witnessed a long and vibrant history at the University of Delaware (since approximately 1938). In its early days this faculty new music concert series and festival welcomed composers such as Aaron Copland and Vincent Persichetti to the UD campus. Since then the series has promoted new music through a variety of activities including, for many years, a regional composition competition. Over the past nineteen years, however, it has once again brought composers to campus for concerts of their music, as well as masterclasses, workshops and presentations with students, and rehearsals of their music with UD faculty. The New Music Delaware performers on this concert are as follows: Etienne Abelin, violin ** Noël Archambeault, voice Guillaume Combet, violin Marie-Christine Delbeau, piano Philip Duker, percussion Oksana Glouchko, piano Todd Groves, saxophone Lindsay Hartfelder, percussion ** Francesca Hurst, piano * Eileen Grycky, flute Christopher Nichols, clarinet Harvey Price, percussion Dalton Ringey, bass clarinet ** Michal Schmidt, violoncello * * guest artist ** UD graduate student This virtual concert is titled: 'George Crumb and his Legacy'. It is being presented in honor of George Crumb's 91st birthday and will feature one work by Crumb and three works by former students of Crumb. The four composers/works on this concert are: George Crumb - 'An Idyll for the Misbegotten' Daniel Dorff - 'The Seven Chakras' Robert G. Patterson - 'Way of the River' Ofer Ben-Amots - 'Montage Music' The concert is 84 minutes in length. Text for 'Way of the River': 1. from “Sun-Down Poem”—Walt Whitman FLOOD-TIDE of the river, flow on! I watch you, face to face, Clouds of the west! sun half an hour high! I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross are more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. 2. Strings in the Earth and Air—James Joyce Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet; Strings by the river where The willows meet. There's music along the river For Love wanders there, Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair. All softly playing, With head to the music bent, And fingers straying Upon an instrument. 4. from “The Elephant’s Child”—Rudyard Kipling At the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, the Crocodile winked one eye— like this! 6. The River/Deep River Deep river, my home is over Jordan Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground. Oh, don’t you want to go, to that gospel feast, That promised land, where all is peace? —anonymous I came from the sunny valleys And sought for the open sea, For I thought in its gray expanses My peace would come to me. I came at last to the ocean And found it wild and black, And I cried to the windless valleys, “Be kind and take me back!” But the thirsty tide ran inland, And the salt waves drank of me, And I who was fresh as the rainfall Am bitter as the sea. —Sarah Teasdale

Added 27 Sept 2026