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William Kraft
Encounters X
Kurt Rohde
Under the Influence
Alexandra du Bois
An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
The Opening Night Benefit celebrates the coming season and our new 3-CD release of the monumental Encounters series of William Kraft on Cambria Master Recordings, with international distribution by Naxos.
Against the background of the exciting 20th anniversary Armory Center art exhibition Inside/Out, featuring works by such luminaries including Ed Ruscha, and Betye Saar, the Opening Night Benefit will include delicious treats from El Portal, Green Street, Europane, and wonderful wines.
We will offer an opportunity for the audience to have composer William Kraft and our musicians autograph our newest recording. Proceeds from the Benefit will provide an important funding match for our U.S. State Department sponsored cultural exchange with Vietnam. We will also be joined by composers Alexandra du Bois from New York City and Kurt Rohde from San Francisco.
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm
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Alexandra du Bois
Bryant Medley
John Adams
Shaker Loops
Carlos Chávez
Cuatro Melodías Indias
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music is the voice of New Classical Music, our 21st century vision for concerts combining the wisdom of tradition with the color of diversity. This concert previews Southwest Chamber Music's tour to Guadalajara, Mexico in December, sponsored by the NEA and the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of L.A. at the prestigious and largest Spanish Book Fair Arts Festival (FIL) in Guadalajara, Mexico. The ensemble will reunite with beloved soprano Suzanna Guzmán.
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Photo Betty Freeman
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Pre-concert TalEuropane,k at 7:30 pm
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John Cage
Child of Tree for Amplified Cactus
Four for String Quartet
27'10.554" For a Percussionist & String Player with 45’ for a Speaker— “The Ten Thousand Things”
4’33”
These concerts are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the music of Cage in a
perfect environment of 50 pieces created by Cage’s friend Robert Rauschenberg
at the Gemini G.E.L. studio here in Los Angeles. The Rauschenberg works are
from the Stone Moon Series, Samarkand Series and Cardbird Series, and feature
the first poster for Earth Day. The first concert will include a performance of
Cage’s landmark silent piece, 4’33”, a perfect finale to the Zen intent of his music.
Possibly the most beautiful and peaceful concert one can experience, Litany for a
Whale and Postcard from Heaven will provide a moving portrait of this iconic
American composer as we begin Cage 2012, a three year series culminating in
his centennial year.
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Photo Betty Freeman
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm
Call 800-726-7147 for Availability
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John Cage
In a Landscape
Litany for the Whale
Postcard from Heaven
These concerts are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the music of Cage in a
perfect environment of 50 pieces created by Cage’s friend Robert Rauschenberg
at the Gemini G.E.L. studio here in Los Angeles. The Rauschenberg works are
from the Stone Moon Series, Samarkand Series and Cardbird Series, and feature
the first poster for Earth Day. The first concert will include a performance of
Cage’s landmark silent piece, 4’33”, a perfect finale to the Zen intent of his music.
Possibly the most beautiful and peaceful concert one can experience, Litany for a
Whale and Postcard from Heaven will provide a moving portrait of this iconic
American composer as we begin Cage 2012, a three year series culminating in
his centennial year.
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An unveiling of Southwest Chamber Music's historic
Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange. Sponsored in part by the State Department, this musical exchange with Vietnam is the largest ever in the nations’ shared history. Grammy Award-winning conductor and
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt will give an overview of the project’s performances and community events.
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Photo Nick Ruechel
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Alexandra du Bois
An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
Vu Nhat Tan
Trang-Moon/Meditation (U.S. Premiere)
Kurt Rohde
Under the Influence
Nguyen Thien Dao
A Mi K Giao Tranh (U.S. Premiere)
Tôn Thât Tiêt
Mémoire de la rivière (U.S. Premiere)
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Nguyen Thien Dao
Dôi for Bassoon & Percussion (U.S. Premiere)
Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour le Fin du Temps
Tôn Thât Tiêt
Les jardins d’autre monde (U.S. Premiere)
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Tôn Thât Tiêt
Niem (U.S. Premiere)
Alexandra du Bois
Chanson d'Orage
Phạm Minh Thành
Thiên Thai (U.S. Premiere)
Kurt Rohde
Seeing Things
Vu Nhat Tan
Green Silk Improvisation (U.S. Premiere)
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Photo Nick Ruechel

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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Claude Debussy
Danse sacrée et danse profane
Vu Nhat Tan
Phô (U.S. Premiere)
Alexandra du Bois
Within Earth, Wood Grows (U.S. Premiere)
Nguyen Thien Dao
Au dessus du vent (U.S. Premiere)
Toru Takemitsu
Archipelago S. for 5 Ensembles
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Photo Betty Freeman

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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Kurt Rohde
Still Distant, Still Here (U.S. Premiere)
John Cage
Atlas Eclipticalis
Elliott Carter
On Conversing with Paradise (U.S. Premiere)
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Photo Ben Jenken
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Maurice Ravel
Ma mère l’oye
Phạm Minh Thành
Thang Long (U.S. Premiere)
Alexandra du Bois
A Requiem for the Living
Kurt Rohde
Oculus
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists.
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Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 pm |
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Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Tôn Thất Tiết
Poèmes (U.S. Premiere)
Arnold Schoenberg
Five Orchestra Pieces
Alexandra du Bois
I Wonder as I Wander
Vu Nhật Tân
Ky Ức (U.S. Premiere)
Igor Stravinsky
Dumbarton Oaks
The largest cultural exchange in the history of Vietnam and the United States comes to Los Angeles
in April and May! The Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange will take Southwest
Chamber Music to Vietnam in March, and bring 19 Vietnamese composers and musicians to L.A. in
April/May. Concerts, public events, and educational activities will feature these wonderful guest artists
alongside our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this
historic exchange, hear premieres of exciting new works from U.S. and Vietnamese composers, and
get to know these exciting young artists..
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