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PAGE 6 PRESSREPUBLICAN THEARTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER8,199£ \I try to write good music for people who are young musicians. It doesn't have to be childish or simplistic. I have glissandos on strings and a lot of trombone. I wanted them to get a workout.\ ., Walker's piece 'suite' music of AYO concert By ROBIN CAUDELL Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker bask- ed under sunny skies and 80- degree weather in Sarasota, Fla., while snowflakes fell on the shoulders of the Adirondack Youth Orchestra last Sunday. AYO rehearsed the music of American composers for their upcoming concert, which includes \Concert Suite,\ composed by Walker. When the work is performed Sunday, Dec. 10, at the Platt- sburgh City Hall Rotunda, it will be for only the second time, and Walker will be there. \It was written for the Bridge- port, Conn., Youth Orchestra,\ said Walker in'a phone inter- view. \I was commissioned to write a piece under 10 minutes in length, something young people could play. \I don't usually write for youth orchestras. I think of young or- chestras as having a lot of energy. I tried not to make it overly complex, and I didn't try, to keep it simplistic.\ A rarity among composers, Walker supports herself solely by writing. A resident of Braintree, Vt., she has a catalog of more than 90 commissioned works for orchestra, band, chorus and chamber ensembles. Her music is published by E.C. Schirmer of Boston (choral, vocal and keyboard works) and MMB Music of St. Louis (orchestral' and instrumental works). Walker's commissions for the '95-'96 season include a \Tuba Concerto\ for Mark Nelson and the Millikin-Decator Symphony, a \Violin Concerto\ for Susan Pickett and the Walla Walla Symphony, a set of \Amefican River Songs\ for chorus and chamber orchestra for the Assabet Valley Mastersingers and a third \String Quartet\ for the Quapaw Quartet of the Arkansas Symphony. \I try to write good music for people who are young musi- cians,\ she said. \It doesn't have -y.' -^•PIKS T^ip^T^r^r- ... . mmmtm&v'- Staff Phofo/pblJinSaUdf Conductor William Phillips rehearses the Adirondack Youth Orchestra for an upcoming concert, \Music of American Com- posers,\ Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. at the Pittsburgh City Hall Rotunda. The program features the works of Aaron'Copeland, John Williams and Gwyneth Walker. General admission is $5; students and senior citizens $3. Tickets may be purchased at the door. „ to be childish or simplistic. I have glissandos on strings and a lot of trqmbone. I wanted them to get a workout.\ In her program notes, Walker writes: \The intention in writing the 'Concert Suite' was to create music with a directness and freshness of sound well-suited to a youth or community orchestra. Thus, the three movements of the 'Suite' speak in a language that is often open and sparse^ while emphasizing rhythmic energy and clarity of musical line. This is particularly 'Ameri- can' music, drawing upon folk, jazz and rock idioms.\ \I like the piece a lot,\ said Myriam Sollman, AYO concert- mistress. \It's good. It doesn't have all the melody in the first violin section. It spreads it out among the orchestra.\ \In the first movement, there is some jazz,\ said violinist Jacob Teter. \Mr. Phillips, our conduc- tor, is trying to show us this music is coming from \(Aaron) Copeland. He's the originator of American music.\ In addition to Walker's work, the concert highlights \Ap- palachian Spring\ by Copeland and \Selections from E.T.,\ by W^ \The music is challenging,\ said Surjit Chandhoke, who plays viola. \We're working on perfecting it for the \concert. I'm sure the concert. will go well. We're really close to making it sound really well as a full or- chestra.\ Giving art for the holidays Museums offer art-inspired gifts and reproductions By JOAN BRUNSKILL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - You can't buy a Vermeer but you don't need to settle for a postcard, if you want to give your nearest and dearest something from a museum. As you poke around the gift shops you'll find most museums feature some unusual items, related to their own collections, that you won't see all over the place. For example: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates its smart new building, designed by ar- chitect Mario Botta, with a $16.95 picture frame echoing the blond wood and black stripes of the atrium. Local artist Kathleen Lynagh took the shapes in Botta's design as inspiration for a range of jew- elry, including rings, cuff links and bracelets, in materials such as silver and copper pearls. Prices range from $84 to $306. Combine surrealism with tradition and you have a Salvador Dali snow dome! \Melting Watch Snowdome\ encloses a tiny little watch in bright blue, duly drooping over its bare branch. When you shake it,\ snow flurries glitter over the scene. Cool. It's priced at $19.95 and it's sold at the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla. The New York Public Library, celebrating its 100th birthday, of- fers a centennial T-shirt with its jazzy \Library\ logo, for $16.95. Its bookshop also has a reproduc- tion of one of the library's treasures, a neat little clay tablet dating from 2300 B.C. in- scrutably inscribed with ancient cuneiform writing, to use as a paperweight, priced at $12. And since its specialty is books, there's a new one with an- swers to more whodunit clues than most of us could possibly ask, \Mystery and Crime: The. New York Public Library Book of Answers.\ The $11 paperback has bibliography, index plus the lowdown' on Sherlock Holmes and \Private Eyes, Grifters and Dames.\ One of the year's most ecstatically received exhibitions has been a Constantin Brancusi retrospective (now at the Phila- delphia Museum of Art through Dec. 31). One of the Romanian-born sculptor's works, the 1917 bronze \A Muse,\ is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The sweetly dreamy head, a stylized oval, has been elegantly adapted as a brooch in gold over pewter,, which the museum sells for $20, with matching earrings for $38. The San Jose Museum of Art in California once again offers the all-natural work of artist Lucinda May: her artful, one-of- a-kind birdhouses are created from materials \carefully gathered on hundreds of acres of wind-felled trees and limbs.\ Prices range from $65 to $100. Another original gift from the San Jose museum would be a set of Answer Blocks, priced at $44, This is a great-looking plaything that's also, sneakily, a math- learning tool designed to get kids to fearlessly face otherwise in- timidating math problems. It's designed by Linda Conklin, ar- tistic director of Kids Street Theatre, an educational arts pro- gram that, shares with the museum the proceeds from the sale of the blocks. And now for something 18th- century in style: a graceful little 17-inch topiary tree in a black pot, created. from dried pome- granates, pepper berries, poppy pods and artichokes, tied with a black velvet ribbon and priced at $ 11.0 from Monticello. New York's Museum of Mod-, erir Art has items from its Design Collection that can send your gift recipients storming around the house doing all the mundane stuff in fine style: for example, the Good Grips Tool Set, a smart trio of peeler-parer-jar opener in stainless steel for $20, and the classic self-defrosting Ice Cream Scoop for $16. Rather more upscale is the breathlessly sleek Digital ARTS BRIEFS AP Photo A brooch inspired a Constan- tin Brancusi bronze for sale by the Museum of Fine Arts. Wristwatch, designed by Flem- ming Bo Hansen, made in Switzerland, each watch numbered, priced at $395. They have art, too, of course. How about fine framed Matisse prints, ready to hang, 19-iiich by 15 l A -inch double- matted: \Harmony in Red\ or \Tulips and Oyster on a Black Background,\ $45 each or $80 for the set of two. When the gift list is finished, it's time to play \Warhoi Dominoes.\ For $56 MOMA sells a vividly colored set, packed in a shocking pink box, made in France of lacquered beech wood and adorned with Andy Warhol's 1966-67 \Flowers\ series of silkscreen prints. A nice reward for the shopper. Funny fun BURLINGTON, Vt. - A iif Night of 934 Laughs comes to !; Burlington City Hall at the Con- !•; tois Auditorium, Saturday, Dec. f\9 at 8:30 p.m. The show stars |; .Margaret, with a wide array of fcybr.an'd new holiday insights. Ad- jV mission is $10 for general admis- |§'. sion and $7 for senior citizens, ^students and the disabled. Tick- t; ets are on sale at the Flynn |& Theatre, 802-863-5966. Benefit concert AKWESASNE - Eddy Lawrence appears in a benefit concert for the Akwesasne Freedom Schooly ; Saturday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at the Cornwall Island Recreation Center. Lawrence is a songwriter, guitarist and singer who has released four albums of original songs. The concert benefits the Mohawk Immersion Program at the Akwesasne Freedom School. For more information, call 358-2829. Christmas concert AUSABLE FORKS - AuSable Forks Free Library presents a Christmas concert, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m. The program in- cludes traditional Irish and Scot- tish music, as well as contem- porary and original pieces, both instrumental and vocal. There is no charge for admis- sion. For more information, call the library at 647-5596. Open house FERISBURGH, Vt. - Rokeby Museum holds its annual Christmas Open House, Sunday, Dec. 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. Rokeby was home to the Robinson family through four generations and nearly 200 years. Exhibit rooms are open for guests to tour-and a special ex- hibit of Christmas cards received and sent by the family over the years is on display. For more information, call 802-877-3406. Christmas open house TICONDEROGA - The Ticonderoga Historical Society hosts a Christmas Open House Sunday, Dec. 10 from 1 to 3 pan. at Hancock House on Moses Cir- cle in Ticonderoga. AVC winter concert CLINTONVILCE - The AuSable Valley music depart- ment presents its annual winter concert at the high school auditorium Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. The middle and high school choirs and bands, jazz ensemble and jazz choirs are per- forming. There is no charge for admis- sion. Continued Pag« 7 r \FiNLirs FARM~&~COUNTRY \• (more than a hardware stored ^^•MHI ' SM M H- -' • ' ' * _^^. _ * * • ' • • WITH THIS COUPON Register To Win A Door Prize 33 Canaan Rd. Free Gift Wrapping Free Layaways Mon.-Sat.7:30am-5pni Fri.7:30onv8pm I We will not forget the kindness and support given to our familyduring the recent loss of our husband and father, William John Benware. 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