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Five Questions - Lowell Liebermann
Five Questions - Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann is in Chicago as the featured guest composer with The Chicago Chamber Musicians' Composer Perspectives concert on Wednesday evening, December 7 in Ganz Hall. Composer Perspectives concerts feature a pre-concert talk, performance with the composer presenting the program and post-concert reception with the composer and artists.
Here are Chicago Classical Music's five questions for Lowell, and his responses:
CCM: What do you listen to on your iPod?
LL: I'm not even sure where it is right now! The only thing on it is actually my own complete works: I only use it when travelling to do a residency at whichever university so that I don't have to lug a suitcase of cds. Otherwise, since I spend my working days either composing or practicing for performances, I tend not to listen to a lot of music in my down time. And when I do, I prefer it live.
CCM: What is the most adventurous thing you've ever done - musically or otherwise?
LL: Move from Manhattan to New Jersey.
CCM: Have you ever had to learn a piece of music you initially disliked and then come to love it once you had mastered it?
LL: Yes, the Gershwin Preludes.
CCM: If I weren't a composer, I would be...
LL: a chef....I seem to enjoy feeding people whether through the ears or the mouth.....
CCM: My favorite moment of any day is....
LL: when I realize I have nothing left to do. Actually that happens about two days a year.
Comments
Composers Perspectives Dec. 7 Program
Thu, 12/8/2011 - 3:31pm — Nick at Norton ...Being able to attend the Lowell Liebermann Composer Perspective program last evening was a rare treat. Hearing what drives the creativity of a great artist, directly in his or her own voice is a privilege and certainly creates great insight into their art.
Mr. Liebermann was very generous in sharing his thoughts about his motivation and his candid ideas about what drives his creative process.
The concert itself was a delight. Three diverse works picked by Mr. Liebermann as some of his favorites that demonstrated his wide range of musical expression, and a piece that was influential on Mr. Lieberman as a young composer: The Sonata for Violin and Cello by Maurice Ravel.
The performances of CCM regulars, Jasmine Lin, Rami Solomonow, Clancy Newman, Meng-Chieh Liu, and guests: violinist Matthias Tacke, and flutist Demarre McGill were all outstanding, as was the amazing singing of John Michael Moore in Liebermann's "Six Songs on Poems by Raymond Carver, Op. 80"
CCM is to be commended for presenting the Composer's Perspectives Series. It's a great addition to the Chicago chamber music scene.
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