2011-2012 Calendar

The Equinox Chamber Players are very grateful to all of our sponsors!

July 23, 2011 The Equinox Chamber Players celebrate of the opening of the new Delta Dental Theater in a Gala performance at the Lumiere Theater. For more information, visit www.ddhtstl.org.

August 20, 2011 WQXR, NYC 105.9 fm Dark Winds Rising, Phillip Bimstein, Equinox Chamber Players. Albany 946.

September 22, 2011 The Bushy Wushy Rag, by Phillip Kent Bimstein Equinox Chamber Players. Starkland 214.

September 25th, 2011 10:00 a.m. The Equinox Chamber Players perform a program of international music during the 10:15a.m. worship service at Webster Groves Presbyterian Church. Prelude begins at 10a.m. The program includes Spirituals, an Indian Raga, Klezmer dance, Venezuelan children's song, Argentinian Tango and more. Webster Groves Presbyterian Church, 45 W. Lockwood Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119

October, 2011 World Series! Home Team: For World Series week, baseball stories from the Public Radio Hall of Fame: Host Gwen Macsai takes a swing at singing the National Anthem. Composer Phillip Kent Bimstein plays ball with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Bushy Wushy Beer Man". Barrett Golding spends a season with the Rookie League. Singer/playwright Terry Allen defines the many meanings of Dug-Out, amid the emerging early 1990s sport of professional baseball. http://hearingvoices.com/news/2011/10/hv073-home-team. Host: Gwen Macsai of WBEZ RE:sound

YOUTUBE - Batter up! Excerpt from The Bushy Wushy Rag, featuring Robert Logan.

October 21, 2011 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (repeated 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.) Tune in to "Cityscape" (FM 90.7) with host Steve Potter. Celebrate the present World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and "those other guys" with a musical tribute performed by the Equinox Chamber Players. Hear the voice of Jack Buck, the screams of the fans, sounds of Busch Stadium and voice of Robert Logan, A.K.A the Bushy Wushy Beer Man, in The Bushy Wushy Rag, by Phillip Kent Bimstein. "It's a Winner!!!" Cityscape is produced by Mary Edwards and Libby Franklin.

November 6, 2011 2:30 p.m. The Shepley Program of Music and Art presents the Equinox Chamber Players at Christ Church Cathedral, 12th and Locust. Come hear a wonderful program of French, Latin and American music, including Mosaics by St. Louis composer Robert Charles Howard. Free parking. Free admission.

November 10th, 2011 7:30 p.m. Women in the Arts -2011. The Equinox Chamber Players perform a collaborative concert featuring a cast of all-female composers in honor of Women in the Arts - 2011. The program features works by Beth Denisch, Barbara Harbach and Cynthia Folio, and includes selected movements of by Gay Holmes Spears, Valerie Coleman and Gwyneth Walker. Guest percussionist Shane Williams performs with Equinox on Denisch’s Jordan and the Dog Woman, inspired by Jeanette Winterson's surrealistic novel, Sexing the Cherry. Harbach's Freeing the Caged Bird, inspired by the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Sara Teasdale and Emily Hahn, is accompanied by introductions presented by scholar Kathleen Nigro. J.C. Penney Conference Center | One University Boulevard | St. Louis, MO 63121 | (314) 516-5961 | Map

Friday, Nov 11, 2011 7:30 p.m. Music of Beth Denisch Hailed as a composer whose music has "fierce rhythmic patterns," (NY Times) and is "brimmed with personality," (Boston Globe), Beth's repertoire of chamber music is comprehensive and runs the gamut from thoughtful and meditative to wild and powerful.

This evening's program opens with the Forth Project, a set of six miniatures for solo piano based on the paintings of Mark Forth. The performance is accompanied by slide projections of his paintings. The next work, Star ll, features bassoon and percussion and uniquely incorporates traditional and graphic notation with improvisation.

The first half of the program ends with a stirring work, Night Forest Fantasia for viola, celeste and percussion. The score calls for virtuosic performers, (which we were fortunate to have on the UMSL faculty!) Tonight we also feature the world premiere of Denisch's Love Is, Love Says, a choral work inspired by the poetry of Samual Hanser. Jim Henry leads the Vocal Point singers in this soulful piece. We end our performance this evening with Jordan and the Dog Woman written for woodwind quintet and percussion. The music was inspired by Jeanette Winterson's phantasmagorical novel Sexing the Cherry and was commissioned and recorded by the Equinox Chamber Players.

Featuring the Equinox Chamber Players, Shane Williams - Percussion, Alla Voskoboynikova and David Doran - Piano, Joanna Mendoza - Viola, Vocal Point singers, conducted by Jim Henry.

210 J.C. Penney Conference Center | One University Boulevard | St. Louis, MO 63121 | (314) 516-5961 | Map