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posted - 2010-07-20
Roger and Rob perform -The Global Significance of Bartok's Method A Symposium
Bridging Musicology and Composition:
The Global Significance of Bartok's Method
A Symposium and Festival
Organized by the Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College
Cambridge, England
From 12 to 14 August, 2010
Roger Zahab, violin & Robert Frankenberry, piano
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 6 pm
Philip N. Thompson: Emergence (1997)
Eric Moe: Blue Air (1996)
Judith Weir: Music For 247 Strings (1981)
J.H.Kwabena Nketia: Bolga Sonata (1958)
Roger Zahab: radiant (2004)
Béla Bartók: Second Sonata (1922)
posted - 2010-07-10
night and starlight
night and starlight will be performed by the
Tuscarawas Philharmonic and Eric Benjamin, music director, on April 10, 2010 Saturday at 7:30 pm.
Also on the program is the Ohio premiere of Eric Benjamin’s setting of Emily Dickinson:
“Hope is the thing with feathers” with the Oberlin College Women’s Chorale under the direction of Dr. Jody L. Kerchner, and three movements from Holst’s The Planets.
Dover High School Auditorium
520 North Walnut St
Dover, OH 44622
posted - 2010-04-08
interwoven graces
The Phoenix Concerts celebrates its fifth season with The Hymn Tune Project, ten premieres commissioned for its new Ensemble-in-Residence, The Finisterra Piano Trio.
Zahab's interwoven graces will be paired in concert with the original works that inspired it, performed by vocalists Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby, in this one-hour program.
Friday, May 28, 2010 — St. Matthew & St. Timothy, NYC
Saturday, May 29, 2010 — Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
posted - 2010-03-06
a later memory
for alto or baritone saxophone was commissioned by Christian Secrist. The five minute solo explores the introspective side of the saxophone.
posted - 2010-02-12
current projects underway
- a chamber opera version of Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol with flexible instrumentation and production formats. scored for violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion, other options include handbells (for the carols) and flute. The vocal score will be arranged for piano four-hands.
- entelechron symphony for large orchestra in varied time zones
- at the piano: transformed recollections of Thomas F. Hutchins as musician, teacher and instigator
posted - 2009-08-03
A New Choral Work
Roger has been commissioned to write a work for the Music & Architecture Project at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. The result, Be Joyful, is a setting of the last words of Saint David of Wales for SATB choir and organ with optional solo violin and cello parts. It will be premiered on All Saints Day, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Calvary Episcopal Church under the direction of Alan Lewis.
posted - 2009-07-03