No Exit and Chester Englander April 2022: New Music for Cimbalom and Ensemble
No Exit April 2022 Program (Click for complete PDF)
“TThis was not an easy concert to digest. Themes were confrontational and the music was challenging. However, it offered an understanding of how the world sounds harsh and violent and cold, though not always, and not completely.”
-Jacob Strauss, ClevelandClassical.com (May,2022)
Hong-Da Chin (b.1985)
String Quartet No.8 – Night Descending (1995-97)
Per Nørgård (b.1932)
I.Prologue – Eulogy
II.Man – Animal
III.Voyage
IV.Night Descending
V.Epilogue – Elegy
Duke Re-Dux (2021) “World Premiere”
Edward Smaldone (b.1956)
Ecstatic Waves (2020) “World Premiere”
Douglas Knehans (b.1957)
I.Searise Breaking
II.Enfoamed Rock
III.Unreturning Tides
Review
May 18, 2022
No Exit: Sounds of Despair at SPACES Gallery (Apr. 29)
by Jacob Strauss, clevelandclassical.com
Preview
April 22, 2022
Chester Englander with No Exit: “The Big Cimbalom Thing”
by Mike Telin, ClevelandClassical.com