Absolute Percussion Quartet (featuring
William Paterson alumni Justin Wolf,
April McCloskey, Mike Sperone, and Joe
Bergen) will be joined by the WPU New
Music Ensemble in a complete
performance of Steve Reich's
monumental classic Drumming in
celebration of the composer's 70th
birthday.

Eric Moe's music has been described as "maximal minimalism", "Rachmaninoff in hell," and "music of winning exuberance." This dynamic young composer and pianist, who "subversively inscribe[s] classical music into pop culture" (NY Times) will perform his piano solo Legend of the Sad Triad. The concert will also feature Frederic Rzewski's politically charged and dramatically theatrical masterpiece Coming Together based on the Attica prison riots in 1971. Peter Jarvis conducts the WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles.

Featuring two new works by WP faculty
composers: Intervening Riff for
percussion quartet and jazz trumpet by
Timothy Newman, with Matt Schulman as
soloist, and John Link's Bar Hopping for
vibraphone solo, performed by New
Music Series Director Peter Jarvis.
WPUNJ percussion faculty member
Payton MacDonald will conduct
members of the WPU Percussion and
New Music Ensembles.

This celebration of 2007 composer in residence Daniel Levitan will include the world premiere of a new work performed by a DoubleStop--the percussion duo consisting of New Music Series Director Peter Jarvis and April McCloskey. The concert will also feature performances by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and WPU Percussion ensembles. A panel discussion with Daniel Levitan will follow the concert, moderated by WPU composition faculty member John Link.

Michael Lipsey has performed with the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, Tan Dun, New York New Music
Ensemble, New Music Consort,
Newband/Harry Partch Instrumentalism,
BBC Symphony, Ensemble Sospeso,
Steve Reich Ensemble, Susan Botti
Ensemble, Riverside Symphony, SEM
Ensemble and Modernworks. He has
performed on over 25 recordings on the
SONY, Mode, Delos International,
Naxos, Albany, Tzadik, CRI, and Werzo
Labels. Lipsey is a founding member of
the Talujon Percussion Quartet. and New
Music Ensembles.

Solo recital by percussionist and WPU faculty member Thomas Kolor performing works of Iannis Xenakis and John Cage. Tom Kolor is a member of the Talujon Percussion Quartet, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Newband, Ensemble Sospeso, and Ensemble 21, and is a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York New Music Ensemble, Continuum, Da Capo Chamber Players, Group for Contemporary Music, Mosaic, Speculum Musicae, and the Orchestra of St Luke's. As a soloist, he has given premi?res of works by Milton Babbitt, Wayne Peterson, John Zorn, Tania Leon, and Jerome Kitzke.

Featuring Strange and Sacred Noise by Alaskan composer John Luther Adams whose work is grounded in the physical, cultural and spiritual landscapes of the North--place as music, and music as place. This vast sonic landscape will be co-conducted by WPU faculty member Payton MacDonald and WPU student Ned Stroh.

Two sides of a tumultuous decade. French composer
Darius Milhaud's jazz-inspired ballet La Création du
Monde tells the story of the creation of the world
through African folk traditions and the music of Harlem
dance halls in the '20s. This exuberant work is paired
with George Antheil's pioneering Ballet mécanique a
masterpiece of the 1920s avant-garde for four pianos
and twelve percussion (including an airplane motor!)
Performed by the WPU Percussion and New Music
Ensembles, conducted by Peter Jarvis. The concert
will also feature a special screening of Fernand
Léger's short film Ballet mécanique.