Videos “The Run to the Sea, (2016)” and “Thalassa, (2017)” were performed at
LESHOWITZ RECITAL HALL
Montclair State University
1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043
June 20, 2017 8:00PM
DIMENNA CENTER, CARY HALL
450 W 37th St. (between 9th & 10th Ave) New York, NY 10018
June 22, 2017 8:00PM
Jonathan Sinagub, images and visual art
Fred Adler, piano
Alexandra Sessler, soprano (Thalassa)
Sarah Bonomo, clarinet
Samsun van Loon, cello
Jonathan Sinagub and Fred Adler initiated the Paterson Project of music and images as friends with merged interests: a modern classical music composer, with a passion for and fascination with the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and a visual artist with a great love for the town of Paterson and the work of William Carlos Williams.
The Run to the Sea is a trio for clarinet, cello and piano with visuals by Jonathan Sinagub; inspired by and taking its name from Book IV of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson". Originally planned as the last book of “Paterson”, Book IV deals with the most essential matters, as seen from near the end of very productive life. Memory and nostalgia are part of it; acceptance of death, also.
Thalassa is an extended song accompanied by clarinet, cello and piano based on an excerpt from Paterson, Book IV. It continues and expands the themes of The Run to the Sea, now with explicit text from the poem about acceptance of mortality and the inevitability of death. Its references to Classical Greek mythology and history also seem to appeal for the return of something essential lost in modern life.
The Performers
Frederick Adler
Fred Adler, MD, is a composer, pianist and medical doctor, living in San Francisco. He studied piano with Mortimer Markoff and composition with Dale Polissar, and in recent years has studied with Bright Sheng. Fred has long been inspired by William Carlos Williams both personally and professionally. Like Williams he is a generalist physician working to try and care for patients with limited resources. As an artist, a composer since age 15 and pianist since age 10, he has been inspired by the example of William Carlos Williams and his combination of the work of an artist and of a medical doctor.
At age fifteen Fred saw a televised documentary about Dr. Williams, and from it carried images with him throughout his life. It has given him hope that one could develop as an artist amid the controlled chaos of a generalist clinician’s life, a concrete example of what the physician-artist must do.
PatersonProject.com/Frederick-Adler-Paterson-ComposerFrederickAdler.com
Jonathan Sinagub
Jonathan Sinagub is a visual artist and architect in New York City. He is a Member of the American Institute of Architects and holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and a B.A. in Art/Architectural History from Columbia University.
Jonathan’s fascination with the town of Paterson, NJ has been long-lasting; he wrote his Masters thesis on the urban redevelopment of Paterson. In later years he has been fascinated by creating art as imagery in Paterson and the Great Falls. Jonathan’s still images and video are featured throughout the performances as a visual interpretation of the music, and the music as an auditory interpretation of the images.
PatersonProject.com/Jonathan-Sinagub-Paterson-visual-artist
Samsun van Loon
Samsun Van Loon, cellist, San Francisco, began his studies at CMC with Noriko Kishi and continued at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jean-Michel Fonteneau. There he studied as a quartet cellist with the Alexander, Miro and Takacs string quartets. During that time he received the M. Alan Neys Award for first prize at the Pacific Musical Society’s annual competition, as well as first prize in CMC’s own concerto competition, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Music Honors Award.
Samsun has recorded for the Phoenix Spring Ensemble as well as the Arcos Chamber Orchestra’s Portrait of Anders Eliasson on the Neos label, and has been critically praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “promising talent” with “the rhetorical polish of a skilled storyteller.” He is a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco.
ChamberMusicSocietySF.org
Julia Sarah Bonomo (purposefully initialed after J.S. Bach)
Sarah Bonomo, clarinetist, San Francisco has a Master of Music, Clarinet Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Bachelor of Music, Clarinet Performance plus a Bachelor of Science, Economics from Florida State University.
Sarah is a founding member of The Collective and of One Found Sound, an un-conducted collaborative chamber orchestra in the Bay Area committed to changing the face of classical music. She gave her Carnegie Hall debut May 2, 2011, as a founding member of the award-winning woodwind quintet Terpsichore Winds.
OneFoundSound.orgJuliaSarahBonomo.com
Alexandra Sessler
Alexandra Sessler, soprano, San Francisco, holds a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami. She has received additional training in programs including La Scuola Italia in Italy, University of Miami at Salzburg in Austria, and Intermezzo.
Alexandra has been featured as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus in works including Stravinsky’s Mass, Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Mass Transmission by Mason Bates. She is also regular member of San Francisco's newest all-professional chamber choir headed by Ragnar Bohlin, Cappella SF. Alexandra has frequently performed with the San Francisco Opera Guild, Pocket Opera, Lamplighters Music Theatre, Golden Gate Opera, West Edge Opera and Prodigal Opera. She has been seen in leading operatic roles including Nedda in I Pagliacci, Pamina and The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, and in supporting roles such as Despina in Così fan tutte, Sara in Armienta’s La Llorana, and Elizabeth Keckley in John Cepelak’s Lincoln and Booth
· AlexandraSessler.com
