Snubbing Sharon Percy Rockefeller And Her "Public Classical Station", Kennedy Center To Host 28 Works Of 16 Living Classical Composers In Single Week

American classical artists Lera Auerbach, Bruce Adolphe, Joan Tower, and Langston Hughes

First Annual John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Contemporary Music Week, May 1 to 10, 2009

ALL-LERA AUERBACH PROGRAM

The Last Letter for Mezzo, Cello, and Piano
(Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, written on the death of Rainer Maria Rilke)

Sonata for Cello and Piano

24 Cello Preludes

ALL-BRUCE ADOLPHE PROGRAM

Three Secret Stories for Violin and Piano

Wind Across the Sky: Settings of Native American Poems
for Soprano and Piano Trio (D.C. Premiere)

The Tiger's Ear: Listening to Abstract Expressionist Paintings
for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano, with Visuals

ALL-JOAN TOWER PROGRAM

Night Fields

Big Sky

Dumbarton Quintet

Incandescent

Simply Purple

For Daniel

ZWILICH - Piano Septet

KNUSSEN - Songs Without Voices

BENJAMIN - Piano Figures

CARTER - Mosaic

BIRTWISTLE - Crowd

MATTHEWS - The Island

MAW - Ghost Dances

THOMAS - Helios Choros I

KNUSSEN - Violin Concerto, Op. 30

ANDERSON - Imagin'd Corners

SCHULLER - Of Reminiscences and Reflections

SHEPHERD - Metamorphoses

THOMAS - Carillon Sky

KNUSSEN - Requiem - Songs for Sue

TURNAGE - Dark Crossing

ANDERSON - Alhambra Fantasy

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Meanwhile, the reactionary and out of touch with reality classical programming of Sharon Percy Rockefeller's Classical WETA-FM, so-called 'public radio' in 'Greater Washington', marks the twilight era of America's Reagan-Bush-Clinton years.

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