Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru

for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon

Duration: app. 9 min.

Program Notes:

Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru is a collaboration between composer Ryan Jesperson and choreographer Layton Peterson. The project originated at the Hartt School in the fall of 2005 and was premiered and performed three times over a weekend in April, 2006.

“Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru” is the Japanese translation of the phrase, “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”  The idea of the piece originates with the choreographer, who found the idea of representing the maxim in relation to dance an interesting starting point for the project. In the music, this idea is represented in three distinct motives that appear throughout the music. The first is the fast staccato passage that appears in all the instruments, the second is the dotted rhythm that appears most often in the horn, and the third is the pentatonic flute melody that pervades throughout. To which of the saying each represents is left to the listener, as is the relationship between the dancing and the music.

This piece was premiered at the University of Hartford in April of 2006 by the Hartt Contemporary players.

Fall, 2012: Joseph Abad will premiere a new Saxophone Sonata.

Fall, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

Spring-Summer, 2012: Jeux pour Jumeaux will be performed in San Francisco, CA.

Spring, 2012: Bobby Watson and the UMKC Big Band will premiere Rhapsody for Dean Moriarty in Kansas City, MO.

Spring, 2012: Ashly Evans will premiere Birdsongs in Houston, TX.

Spring, 2012: BA(da)SS will be performed by Ryan Ford in West Hartford, CT.

Spring, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

Spring, 2012: Not Death, but Love will be premiered by Ineo Saxophone Quartet.

Spring, 2012: David Tayloe will perform A Page Out of Zen in CT.

May, 2012: The Invisible, Magic, Soccer Phone will be premiered in Middlefield, CT.

April, 2012: The UMKC Opera Dept. will perform portions of Songs from Behind the Curtain.

April, 2012: David Tayloe will premiere A Page Out of Zen in NY.

Feb. 17th, 2012: The 016 Ensemble will be perform Romanza for Alto Saxophone and Violin in Manchester, CT.

Dec. 3rd, 2011: Ryan defends his dessertation, Songs from Behind the Curtain at UMKC.

July 17th, 21st, 24th, 2011: Music Faculty from the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will perform ...and those seven dwarfs in a series of concerts in Western Maine.

June 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 2011:Orphée Redux will be performed by Rhymes With Opera on their East Coast Tour (NYC, Baltimore, Hartford, Boston).

June 12th, 2011:Selection from Songs from Behind the Curtain will be performed at the John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, VA.

May 13th, 2011: The Ineo Quartet will perform the 1st movement of Not Death, but Love on their Fischoff Competition program in South Bend, Indiana.

March 19th, 2011: The Ineo Saxophone Quartet will perform ...and love is fire... from Not Death, but Love at the NASA conference in West Point, NY.

Feb. 25th, 2011: I. Jest will be premiered by Robert Olson and the UMKC Orchestra in Kansas City, MO.

Feb. 14th, 2011: Hebdomas Squatinae will be performed at the Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival.

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