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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 30, 1998 David Verbraska, Esq. 7 Van Rensselaer Way Glenmont, NY 12077 Dear Mr. Verbraska: Thank you for your enthusiastic letter and copy of your resume. Unfortunately, there are no positions available in the First Lady's Office at this time. However, I have forwarded your resume to the Office of Presidential Personnel in hopes that an interesting opportunity becomes available. Best wishes. Sincerely, Mener Melanne Verveer Chief of Staff to the First Lady NOV 06 1998 13:14 FR 518 463 8657 TO 12024566244 P.02/04 VIA FACSIMILE 7 Van Rensselaer Way Glenmont, NY 12077 November 6, 1998 Melanne Verveer Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady The White House Washington, DC 20502 Dear Ms. Verveer: Please consider me for a staff position at The White House. I have the professional maturity, personal flexibility and ideological dedication to the Administration's ideals to make a substantive contribution to your efforts. Experience: Leadership positions within highly competitive and pressured environments include Confidential Assistant to Governor Mario Cuomo; attorney/lobbyist with New York's top ranked lobbying firm; and director of government affairs for a prominent business/civic association. In 1996, I was an intern in White House Legislative Affairs. Skills: Development and implementation of all phases of communications strategy and government policy are the core of my career. Substantive writing experience includes high profile speeches, press releases, policy presentations, and in-depth research & analysis. Management background includes directing broad lobbying campaigns, facilitating project teams including senior government and Fortune 50 corporate executives, and mediating commercial/legal conflicts. A variety of opportunities are of interest, my main objective is to join the important work of the Administration as soon as possible. I am prepared to relocate within weeks and an FBI background check is already on file. Thank you for your consideration and continued best wishes. a Sincerely it pleasure meet again was her treduring recent to New First cad1 one trops for oF Schumer- to David Verbraska, Esq. NOV 06 1998 13:14 FR 518 463 8657 TO 12024566244 P.03/04 DAVID H. VERBRASKA, Esq. 7 Van Rensselaer Way, Glenmont, NY 12077 (518) 767-2610 EXPERIENCE NEW YORK CITY PARTNERSHIP & CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Albany and New York City Leading business and civic association. Founded by Rockefellers. Time Warner, Inc. - current chair. Director of Government Relations - January 1998 - Present Develop and implement legislative, regulatory and public relations campaigns to advance the organization's interests in high technology, economic development, housing and education. Devise internal and external communications strategy to positively position the organization utilizing traditional and new media outlets. Engage in presentations and promotional writing. Coordinate with a team of Fortune 50 executives to accomplish specific program goals. Negotiate with government and private/public sectors in high-pressure competitive environment. Manage administration and personnel issues for the state office. Generate ideas for Partner/Member outreach including web site, publications, and events. WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & DICKER, Albany, NY and New York City International general practice law firm. Associate Attorney/Lobbyist - March-December 1997 Government Relations (top ranked lobbying group in New York): initiated efforts to advance the legislative and regulatory goals of clients, including Fortune 100 companies and associations. Litigation: researched and drafted legal pleadings, managed discovery issues, and represented clients at conferences in multi-million dollar civil liability lawsuits. Developed and wrote legal advisories, speeches for partners/clients, and marketing material. Featured presenter in statewide seminar series on premises liability issues. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, DC White House East Wing - Summer 1996 Summer Intern - Office of Legislative Affairs Drafted Presidential talking points and messages to Congress. Edited National Security Council memorandum to the President for grammar and style. OFFICE OF NEW YORK GOVERNOR MARIO M. CUOMO, Albany, NY and New York City Confidential Assistant to the Governor - 1992 - 1995 Exercised a broad research, analysis and advocacy mandate. Created multi-media communication campaigns to advance organization priorities; served as press liaison; and wrote gubernatorial speeches, presentations, press releases, etc. Recommended gubernatorial policy on a variety of economic development and social issues. Supervised design and completion of projects for Research Department. Facilitated interoffice and constituency collaboration on gubernatorial agenda items. Directed "New Ideas" development for inclusion in annual State-of-the-State program. Speechwriter (1992). Assistant Research Director (1990-1991). Research Associate (1989-1990). NIXON, HARGRAVE, DEVANS & DOYLE LLP, Albany, NY Northeast regional general practice law firm. Student Law Clerk - Spring and Fall 1996 Lobbied state Legislature for increased budget appropriations for health corporations. Researched and drafted memorandum of law, briefings and client pleadings. Areas of law included corporate, securities, environmental, health and municipal. NOV 06 1998 13:15 FR 518 463 8657 TO 12024566244 P.04/04 David H. Verbraska, page 2 NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, Justice Thomas W. Keegan, Third Judicial Department Student Law Clerk, Clinical Legal Studies Program - Fall 1996 Drafted judicial opinions. One unedited opinion was profiled in New York Law Journal. MEDIATION PROGRAM, Law, Order and Justice Center, Schenectady, NY Certified Dispute Mediator, 1987 - - 1991. Honors Program Intern, 1987 - 1989 Mediated 30+ domestic and commercial cases referred from Family and Small Claims Courts. Directed mediation case management from consultation with judges to client follow-up. EDUCATION STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Albany, NY Master of Business Administration Enrolled in evening MBA program ALBANY LAW SCHOOL OF UNION UNIVERSITY, Albany, NY Juris Doctor - December 1996 Admitted in New York. Rank: Top 10% (Third Year), Top 20% (Second Year) Senior Writing Requirement: A- Major Research Papers: "White Collar Crimes" A- and "Government Ethics" A STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Albany, NY Master of Arts - Public Policy, August 1991 cum laude. Concentration: Public Law Master Thesis: A- SIENA COLLEGE, Loudonville, NY Bachelor of Arts - American Studies, May 1989 cum laude. Presidential Scholar, Minor: Political Science, GPA 3.8 Honors Programs: History and Peace Studies Honor Societies: Phi Gamma Mu and Phi Alpha Theta ACTIVITIES PROFESSIONAL Member, Business Law Section, American Bar Association (since 1992). Member, Business Law & Young Lawyers Sections, NY State Bar Association (since 1992). Co-Founder, Legislative Committee, Albany County Bar Association (1997). Co-Founder, Government Alumni Group, Albany Law School (1997-Present). COMMUNITY Co-Founder, Law Exploring Post (1997). Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America (1985). RECREATIONAL Hiking & Boating - Treks include to Northern Maine, Florida Keys and Rocky Mountains. Foreign Travel - Venezuela, West and East Europe, Morocco, Israel, and Egypt. ** TOTAL PAGE. 04 ** THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 29, 1998 Mr. Stephen Vann Eos Orchestra 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902 New York, NY 10013 Dear Mr. Vann: On behalf of the First Lady, thank you for your letter and offer for the Eos Orchestra to perform at the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Awards. We look forward to the performance! Very best wishes. Sincerely, New Chief of Staff to Melanne Verveer the First Lady @ R Eos October 2, 1998 Artistic Director First Lady Jonathan Sheffer Hillary Rodham Clinton Board of Directors The White House Laurence Cohen, Esq. Madison Cox Old Executive Office Building, Room 100 Benjamin Doller Washington, DC 20500 John Lyons Joan Reagin McNeill Ann Sheffer Dear Mrs. Clinton, William Wright II Andrew Zobler, Esq. It was a great honor to have met you recently in East Hampton at the home of Jonathan Advisory Committee Randall Bourscheidt Sheffer and Christopher Barley. I am writing to express our interest in a performance Karen Chester by the Eos Orchestra, led by Jonathan Sheffer, Artistic Director, for the National Medal John Corigliano David Del Tredici of Arts and Humanities performance on November 5, 1998. Charles Hamlen Harold Farberman Harry Kraut As you know, Mr. Sheffer is the conductor and Artistic Director of the Eos Orchestra. Isaac Mizrahi Now entering its fourth season, Eos focuses on American contemporary music, with an Michael Tilson Thomas emphasis on the rediscovery of neglected works and composers. The Orchestra Executive Director performed twice as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, most recently with a Leonard Stephen Vann Bernstein world premiere of his 1974 ballet Dybbuk. The Orchestra records for BMG Director of Operations Classics (RCA), and our most recent CD, the complete piano and orchestra works of & Finance Laura Kemsley Ames George Gershwin (advance copy enclosed), is due for worldwide release in January. The Eos Orchestra can be seen and heard on the A&E Network Biography series on November 30 in a biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. For this National Medal of Arts and Humanities performance, we propose a program of approximately 30 minutes, consisting of two quintessentially American works: the ever-popular Rhapsody in Blue, and Aaron Copland's effervescent Appalachian Spring. This program is a prelude to the Millenium, since the year 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of Aaron Copland's birth. Should a shorter program be needed, we would perform only the Rhapsody in Blue - approximately 20 minutes. I have enclosed additional information about the Orchestra, and look forward to further discussions. It would be our great honor and privilege to perform at this important arts ceremony. Best wishes, Stephen Vana Stephen Vann cc: Hon. Bill Ivey, Melanne Verveer, Capricia Marshall, Ellen McCulloch-Lovell www.eosmusic.com 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902, New York, NY 10013 Tel. 212.691.6415 Fax 212.691.6648 E-Mail [email protected] Eos From the Winter 1998 Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, Cassettes and LPs: Piano Concerto in F; Rhapsody in Blue; Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra; Variations on "I Got Rhythm" (M) Classic FM Dig. 76505 57012-2. Michael Boriskin, The Eos Orchestra, Jonathan Sheffer. This is the most seductive pairing of the Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F to have come our way for a long time. The performances have a superb sense of style, and are for the 1990s what Bernstein's famous versions were for the 1950s and '60s. Michael Boriskin is a native New Yorker, and he and Jonathan Sheffer immediately establish a partnership which brings an idiomatic and freshly individual approach to these two concertante masterpieces, which uniquely span the jazz world and the ethos of the concert hall. The keenly sophisticated and inventive "I Got Rhythm" Variations are no less glittering and are wonderfully infectious. The Eos Orchestra is a group of first-class freelance musicians from the New York area: the individuality of their response is immediately set by Todd Levy's naughtily provocative clarinet glissando at the opening of the Rhapsody. The first big tutti brings a splendid jazz-band sound, and later, when the great lyrical tune arrives, a sultry saxophone colouring spices the strings. The orchestral detail throughout is a joy (especially illuminating in the less-inspired Second Rhapsody), while in the concerto the big climaxes open out to engulf the listener expansively and ardently. Boriskin's brilliant pianism is wittily skittish in the most infectious way, both in the Rhapsody and in the delectably played central section of the concerto's slow movement, which Neil Balm has opened so languorously with his trumpet. The finale brings dazzling yet totally unforced bravura from ever nimble fingers, matched by sparkling orchestra rhythms. The recording is first rate. This is not to be missed. ROSETTES To a very few records and cassettes we have awarded a rosette: Unlike our general evaluation, in which we have tried to be consistent, a rosette is a quite arbitrary compliment by a member of the reviewing team to a recorded performance which, he finds, shows special illumination, a magic, or spiritual quality that places it in a very special class. The choice is essentially a personal one (although often it represents a shared view), and is some cases it is applied to an issue where certain reservations must also be mentioned in the text of the review. The rosette symbol is placed immediately before the normal evaluation and record number. It is quite small - we do not mean to imply an "Academy award" but a personal token of appreciation for something uniquely valuable. We hope that, once the reader has discovered and perhaps acquired a 'rosette' CD, tape or LP, its special qualities will soon become apparent. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Eos Eos Stephen Vann Executive Director 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902 New York, NY 10013 Tel. 212.691.6415 Fax 212.691.6648 E-Mail [email protected] www.eosmusic.com Eos Eos Orchestra Fact Sheet Founded in 1995 by conductor & artistic director Jonathan Sheffer Commitment: To present engaging musical programs to a diverse audience. Focus: Innovative programming, rediscovery of important neglected composers and works, and collaborations with other artistic disciplines to produce new and exciting performances. The Orchestra is composed of 65 of New York City's top freelance musicians. Presents annual subscription series of four concerts Performs at Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall and at the New York Society for Ethical Culture Auditorium Recordings: Eos has released 2 CDs with BMG Classics - The Music of Paul Bowles and Music for Merce. Eos has recorded 2 additional CDs: music of George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, scheduled for release in the Fall of 1998 on BMG Classics. Books: Eos has published three books - Paul Bowles: Music, Perceptible Processes: Minimalism and the Baroque, and 1939: Music and The World's Fair. A book on Leonard Bernstein at Harvard will be published in January 1999. Radio: Can be heard on National Public Radio during 1998 in the U.S. and Europe The Eos Orchestra was presented at the Lincoln Center Festival in '96 and '98. Festivals: Eos presents an annual interdisciplinary festival involving music and other art forms, publishes a volume of essays and images to accompany the festival and records compact discs. Television: Eos will appear on the A&E Biography series in a Beethoven feature. Support: Contributions to Eos come from over 400 donors, including the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and many individual supporters. www.eosmusic.com 7/31/98 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902, New York, NY 10013 Tel. 212.691.6415 Fax 212.691.6648 E-Mail [email protected] Eos Eos Orchestra History Established in 1995, the Eos Orchestra is committed to presenting engaging musical programs to a diverse audience. Our focus is on innovative programming, the rediscovery of important neglected works and collaborations with other artistic disciplines to produce new and exciting performances. The main activity is the annual subscription series of the Eos Orchestra, an ensemble composed of up to 65 musicians, conducted by founder and Artistic Director, Jonathan Sheffer. Through the approach to performance and choice of repertoire, Eos seeks to be a driving force in the revitalization of the live music listening experience. Eos' annual concert season is held at venues such as Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and the New York Society for Ethical Culture. To serve the broadest audience possible, Eos presents an annual interdisciplinary festival involving music and other art forms, publishes a volume of essays and images to accompany the festival and records compact discs. To date, Eos has published three books - Paul Bowles: Music, Perceptible Processes: Minimalism and the Baroque, and 1939: Music and The World's Fair and has released two CDs with BMG Classics - The Music of Paul Bowles and Music for Merce. Eos has recorded two additional CDs for BMG Classics (RCA): the music of George Gershwin, scheduled for worldwide release in January 1999, and the music of Aaron Copland, scheduled for release in Fall of 1999. The Eos Orchestra was invited to perform at the inaugural Lincoln Center Festival in 1996, and returned to the 1998 Festival with a program entitled "Literally: Bernstein," works composed by Bernstein accompanied by texts from a variety of literary sources, including the world premiere of his ballet, Dybbuk, in its first concert performance. The Eos Orchestra will appear on the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E) in a Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. In addition, the Eos Orchestra can be heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today series in the United States and on public radio in Europe throughout 1998. rev. 9/25/98 Eos JONATHAN SHEFFER Founder & Artistic Director JONATHAN SHEFFER is a composer and conductor who has moved freely in creating and interpreting music over a wide spectrum. Born in New York City, he attended Harvard University where he studied composition, producing a variety of vocal and theatrical works, including the college's traditional Hasty Pudding Show. His teachers at Harvard included Leonard Bernstein, Jay Gottlieb, and Leon Kirchner. After graduation, he worked in the New York theatre as a pianist and coach while pursuing further studies at The Juilliard School with Renée Longy and Michael Czajkowski. Mr. Sheffer also studied counterpoint and composition with Mr. Czajkowski at the Aspen Music School. A conducting career for Mr. Sheffer emerged from his film composing. After recording three film scores with the Seattle Symphony, he made his debut in 1991 with the San Diego Symphony. He has since conducted the Oregon Symphony, OK Mozart Festival, Minneapolis Chamber Orchestra, Rutgers Summerfest Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Pro Arte Orchestra of London, and has returned three times to lead the Seattle Symphony. In 1992, he served as assistant to Michael Tilson Thomas with the London Symphony Orchestra and L'Orchestre Nationale de France. Mr. Sheffer pursued further conducting study with Jorma Panula, Tsung Yeh, Yuri Simonov, and Harold Farberman. His orchestral compositions include a ballet (which he also conducted) for a benefit at Lincoln Center (October 1993), and a Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra, which had its premiere in Stockholm in November 1996, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Six Piano Pieces, written in 1996, was choreographed by Robert LaFosse and presented for the New York City Ballet Guild. Eos Orchestra was founded by Jonathan Sheffer in 1995 and inaugurated at Alice Tully Hall with a festival of music by expatriate novelist Paul Bowles. Eos was then presented in two concerts as part of the Lincoln Center Festival '96. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sheffer stepped in on one week's notice to conduct the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in four sold- out evenings with the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1997, he conducted the Brooklyn Philharmonic in performances of the Mark Morris dance company at BAM. Eos returned to the Lincoln Center Festival in 1998 with a sold-out program entitled "Literally: Bernstein," including the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's ballet, Dybbuk, in its first concert performance. A prolific composer of music for theatrical films and television, Mr. Sheffer has written a number of scores for Hollywood films, including Pure Luck, Darkman (with Danny Elfman), Omen IV, Bloodhounds of Broadway, In a Shallow Grave, and for PBS, Andre's Mother. More recently, Mr. Sheffer has conducted the recording of the scores to several of Hollywood's biggest films, including Michael Collins, Batman Forever, Interview With the Vampire, Alien 3, A Time To Kill, Heat, Batman & Robin, and Sphere. Mr. Sheffer's works for the theater include two musicals, Ladies in Waiting and Going Hollywood, and a one- act opera, The Mistake. An early work, Camera Obscura, will be performed this summer at the Festival des Arcs in France on a double bill with Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. His next operatic project, Blood on the Dining Room Floor, with text from the story by Gertrude Stein, will receive its premiere at the WPA Theater in NYC in May 1999. Eos Concert Programs - 1995 to Present DATE PROGRAM September 19, 1995 MUSIC OF PAUL BOWLES Festival Alice Tully Hall Igor Stravinsky Suite #2 for Small Orchestra (1925) Aaron Copland Music for the Theatre (1925) Paul Bowles Pastorela: First Suite (1947) Paul Bowles Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs (arr. Sheffer, 1995) Paul Bowles Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra (1946) September 20, 1995 MUSIC OF PAUL BOWLES Festival - Bowles Chamber Music The New School Six Latin Pieces for Piano: Huapango #1, Tierra Mojada, El Bejuco, la Cuelga, Orosf, Huapango #2 (El Soll (Miriam Conti, pianist) Blue Mountain Ballads for Piano and Baritone (Chris Trakas, baritone; Jonathan Sheffer, piano) Seven Short Preludes for Piano (excerpts): 1, II., III., VI. Guayanilla, VII. Impasse de Tombouctou (Allison Voth, pianist) September 21, 1995 MUSIC OF PAUL BOWLES Festival Alice Tully Hall Paul Bowles Incidental Music from "The Glass Menagerie" (1944) (Rosemary Harris & Tom Hulce, actors) Paul Bowles Suite for Small Orchestra (1932-33) Peggy Glanville-Hicks Letters from Morocco (1952) [text by Paul Bowles] (Peter Kazaras, tenor) Paul Bowles Noonday, Suite of Mexican Dances (1937) Silvestre Revueltas Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca (1935) Paul Bowles The Wind Remains: A Zarzuela Based on Federico Garcia Lorca (1941-42) (Choreography: Robert LaFosse, stage director, Tina Landau) July 25, 1996 HYPERINSTRUMENTS TRILOGY at the Lincoln Center Festival 1996 Alice Tully Hall Hyperinstrumental music by Tod Machover: Begin Again, Again for Hypercello (1991) Matt Haimovitz, soloist Song of Penance for Orchestra & Hyperviola (1992) Paul Silverthorne, soloist Forever and Ever for Orchestra & Hyperviolin (1993) Ani Kavafian, soloist July 28, 1996 MERCE CUNNINGHAM: MUSIC at the Lincoln Center Festival 1996 Alice Tully Hall John Cage The Seasons John Cage Credo in Us Morton Feldman Ixion Alexei Haieff Princess Zondilda and Her Entourage Lou Harrison The Open Road Eric Satie Sting of the Jellyfish (Ruse of Medusa) November 23, 1997 Workshop Benefit Performance of Santa Fe Opera "preview" Apartment of Peter Lieberson & Douglas Penick Ashoka's Dream Leonard Bernstein Concert Programs - 1995 to Present Page 2 January 20, 1997 PERCEPTIBLE PROCESSES: MIMIMALISM & THE BAROQUE Festival Alice Tully Hall Arvo Pärt Tabula Rasa Ani Kavafian & Benny Kim, violins Steve Reich Eight Lines Philip Glass Violin Concerto Eric Wyrick, violin Handel Solomon: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba Handel Lucrezia (staged dramatic cantata) Julianna Gondek, mezzo-soprano January 22, 1997 PERCEPTIBLE PROCESSES: MIMIMALISM & THE BAROQUE Festival Bach From the Well-Tempered Clavier (arr. Sheffer) John Adams Shaker Loops John Adams Nixon in China (Act III) February 17, 1997 THE CONCERTO GROSSO Society for Ethical Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, Nr.7 (1714) Culture Auditorium Bohuslav Martinu Concerto Grosso (1948) Ernest Bloch Concerto Grosso #1 (1925) Philip Glass Concerto Grosso (1992) Alfred Schnittke Concerto Grosso #3 (1985) Eric Wyrick & Ellen Payne, violins March 17, 1997 MYTH & MYSTIC Alice Tully Hall John Tavener The Protecting Veil (1987) Steven Isserlis, violoncello Peter Lieberson King Gesar (1992) (semi-staged) Kurt Ollmann, baritone March 22, 1997 WALL TO WALL BERNSTEIN Symphony Space The Works of Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish Symphony No. 3 [excerpts] (1963) Benediction from Concerto for Orchestra (1986-89) Dance Suite for Brass Quintet (1989) Piccola Serenata (1979) Silhouette (Galilee) (1951) So Pretty (1968) Angelina Réaux, soprano Serenade (After Plato's Symposium) (1954) Ayako Yoshida,violin Three Dances from "On the Town" Leonard Bernstein's Broadway song collection sung by Peter Kazaras & Harolyn Blackwell May 12, 1997 Benefit for Classical Action Alice Tully Hall J.C. Bach Sinfonia for Double Orchestra Mark Adamo Late Victorians (excerpts) (1996) Robert White, tenor Maurice Ravel Prelude from le Tombeau de Couperin Billy Strayhorn Lament for an Orchid Claude Debussy The Children's Corner Suite (excerpt) J.S. Bach Aria from Cantata No. 104, Wachet Auf (arranged F. Hersch). With the Fred Hersch Trio Haydn Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, Farewell Symphony Classical Action Variations (1997 Eos Commission) composed by William Bolcom, John Corigliano, David del Tredici, & Elliot Goldenthal Concert Programs - 1995 to Present Page 3 February 2, 1998 FROM THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR Festival Alice Tully Hall Aaron Copland From Sorcery to Science [staged puppet show] Aaron Copland Film Score to "The City" (excerpts) Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Variants of "Dives & Lazarus" George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue [theater version] Michael Boriskin, pianist George Gershwin Dawn of a New Day (arr. Sheffer) Michael Feinstein, singer/pianist William Grant Still Song of a City March 28, 1998 THE SAXOPHONE CONCERT Society for Ethical Igor Stravinsky Ebony Concerto Culture Auditorium R.R. Bennett Concerto for Alto Saxophone & String Orchestra John Harle, soloist Darius Milhaud la Création du Monde Jonathan Sheffer Concerto for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra John Harle, soloist April 23, 1998 CONCERTO GROSSO II Society for Ethical Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 2 Culture Auditorium Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Concerto Grosso (1985) Alfred Schnittke Concerto Grosso #1 (1914) Eric Wyrick and Ellen Payne, soloists Blomdahl Concerto Grosso (1944) May 21, 1998 Composer Rediscovery: ALEXEI HAIEFF, "THE AMERICAN STRAVINSKY" Society for Ethical Alexei Haieff Eclogue for Harp & Strings Culture Auditorium Alexei Haieff Princess Zondilda & Her Entourage Alexei Haieff Divertimento Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella (complete ballet, rev. 1965) Paula Rasmussen, Carl Halvorson, Andrew Schroeder, soloists Staging by Peter Kazaras, choreography by Sean Curran July 23, 1998 LITERALLY: BERNSTEIN at The Lincoln Center Festival '98 Alice Tully Hall Bernstein Songfest (excerpts) (Angelina Reaux, mezzo-soprano, Richard Bernstein, baritone, Philip Cutlip, bass) Bernstein Serenade (Anne Akiko Meyers, violin) Bernstein Dybbuk (world premiere, concert version) Eos Orchestra Eos Lectures & Symposia DATE PROGRAM September 20, 1995 MUSIC OF PAUL BOWLES Festival The New School Symposium: Panelists included Paul Bowles, Jonathan Sheffer, Philip Ramey & John Rockwell. January 21, 1997 PERCEPTIBLE PROCESSES: Minimalism & The Baroque Festival Paula Cooper Symposium: Panelists included Klaus Kertes, Brice Marden, John Rockwell, and Robert Gallery Rosenblum. February 2, 1998 FROM THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR Festival Walter Reade Film Screening: "The City" (dir. Pare Lorentz) Theater Symposium: From the 1939 World's Fair. Panelists: E.L. Doctorow, Paul Goldberger, Vivian Perlis, John Rockwell, & Jonathan Sheffer. March 28, 1998 THE SAXOPHONE CONCERT Society for Ethical Lecture: John Harle, saxophonist; composer Richard Rodney Bennett; Culture Auditorium and conductor/composer Jonathan Sheffer. April 23, 1998 CONCERTO GROSSO II Society for Ethical Lecture: "Concert Life - What Makes a Good Program?" Culture Auditorium Panelists: Conductor Jonathan Sheffer and executive director Stephen Vann May 21, 1998 Composer Rediscovery: ALEXEI HAIEFF, "THE AMERICAN STRAVINSKY" Society for Ethical Lecture: "Alexei Haieff & Balanchine - Neo-Classicism & Ballet" Culture Auditorium Panelists: Critics Martin Bernheimer and Linda Winer; conductor Jonathan Sheffer July 8, 1998 Leonard Bernstein and his Collaborators Kaplan Penthouse at Moderated by Jonathan Sheffer, artistic director of the Eos Orchestra, with panelists Lincoln Center including Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim. July 13, 1998 Leonard Bernstein Barnes & Noble at The Eos Orchestra will present a lecture and performance, free to the public, at Lincoln Triangle theBarnes & Noble located across from Lincoln Center. July 20, 1998 Leonard Bernstein as Student: Classical Education for Musicians Kaplan Penthouse at Moderated by Alexander Bernstein with panelists including composer and pianist Lukas Lincoln Center Foss, Ron Gwiazda from the Boston Latin School and Jonathan Sheffer, artistic director of the Eos Orchestra. July 23, 1998 Leonard Bernstein as Teacher: The Young People's Concerts and The Norton Kaplan Penthouse at Lectures. Lincoln Center A discussion featuring panelists involved in these ground-breaking programs. Rev. 6/23/98 Eos Eos Orchestra - Discography PAUL BOWLES: MUSIC BMG Catalyst 09026-68409-2 © 1996, BMG Classical Compositions from the popular expatriate novelist. All world-premiere recordings. The Eos Ensemble with Jonathan Sheffer, conductor Alan Feinberg & Leslie Stifelman, pianos; Lucy Schaufer, mezzo-soprano; Carl Halvorson, tenor; Kurt Ollmann, baritone Pastorela: First Suite (1947) Suite for Small Orchestra (1932-33) Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra (1946) The Wind Remains: A Zarzuela based on Federico Garcia Lorca (1941-42) Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs (arr. Sheffer) MUSIC FOR MERCE BMG Catalyst 09026-68751-2 © 1997, BMG Classical Works written for choreographer Merce Cunningham. All world-premiere recordings. The Eos Ensemble with Jonathan Sheffer, conductor John Cage The Seasons (1960) Lou Harrison The Open Road (1947) Alexei Haieff Princess Zondilda and Her Entourage (1946) Morton Feldman Ixion (1958-1960) John Cage Credo in Us (1942) GERSHWIN - THE COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO & ORCHESTRA The complete Gershwin piano & orchestra works, including the original theater version of Rhapsody in Blue. Eos Orchestra with Jonathan Sheffer, conductor and Michael Boriskin, piano George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin Concerto in F George Gershwin 2ⁿᵈ Rhapsody George Gershwin / Got Rhythm Variations Recorded in February 1998 for BMG Classics. Release planned for Spring 1998. AARON COPLAND: AMERICAN MASTER The composer's original chamber version of Appalachian Spring and a program of American masterworks. Eos Orchestra with Jonathan Sheffer, conductor Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring (original instrumentation for 13 instruments) Aaron Copland Billy the Kid Aaron Copland Music for Theatre Recorded in February & April 1998 for BMG Classics. Release planned for Fall 1998. All recordings are distributed world-wide by BMG Music. They are also available through Eos Music, 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902, New York, NY 10013. Phone inquiries: 212-691-6415. Fax inquiries: 212-691-6648. Email: [email protected]. rev. 5/5/98 Eos Eos Orchestra - Books PAUL BOWLES: MUSIC A collection of essays, letters, interviews and writings that describe and evoke the musical world of composer and author Paul Bowles. Edited by Claudia Swan. Foreword by Jonathan Sheffer. Contributors: Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Eli Gottlieb, Philip Ramey, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, K. Robert Schwarz, Howard Taubman, & Ben Yarmolinsky. Design: Bureau, NY. 152 pp.; 32 ill. © 1995 Eos Music, Inc. ISBN 0-9648083-0-7. PERCEPTIBLE PROCESSES: MINIMALISM & THE BAROQUE This book features extraordinary images and essays exploring two groundbreaking artistic movements -- the Baroque and Minimalism - periods of contained musical gestures. Edited by Claudia Swan. Foreward by Jonathan Sheffer. Contributors: Paolo Berdini, Elizabeth Bergman, Eli Gottlieb, Philip Ramey, Steve Reich, K. Robert Schwarz, & Ben Yarmolinsky. Design: Bureau, NY. 86 pp.; 26 ill. © 1997 Eos Music, Inc. ISBN 0-9648083-1-5. 1939: MUSIC & THE WORLD'S FAIR This volume celebrates New York City's centennial with a collection of archival photos and essays exploring the impact of the World's Fair in its own time and its reverberations over the past five and one- half decades. Edited by Claudia Swan. Foreward by Jonathan Sheffer. Contributors: John Bell, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Miles Krueger, Howard Pollack, & Robert Rosenblum. Design: Bureau, NY. 96 pp.; 26 ill. © 1998 Eos Music, Inc. ISBN 0-9648083-2-3. BOXED SET: Volume 1 Paul Bowles: Music Volume 2 Perceptible Processes: Minimalism & the Baroque Volume 3 1939: Music & The World's Fair Edited by Claudia Swan. Design: Bureau, NY. © 1998 Eos Music, Inc. ISBN 0-9648083-3-1. All publications available through Eos Music, 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902, New York, NY 10013. Phone inquiries: 212-691-6415. Fax inquiries: 212-691-6648. Email: [email protected]. rev. 5/5/98 CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Bernstein Revisited: A Master Of It All Barton Silverman/The New York Times IN HONOR OF BERNSTEIN AND THE CENTENNIAL Leonard Bernstein, whose works will be played tonight at a free concert in Central Park, conducting the New York Philharmonic in the park in August 1986. E1 Weekend MOVIES K FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1998 PERFORMING ARTS The New York Times By ANTHONY TOMMASINI of Central Park, an event officially Other coming events in the festival the Music Shed. I was allowed to sit To the bass players he said at one Whenever Leonard Bernstein had to list his profession on some offered as part of the New York City promise more adventurous offer- next to the violins for all the rehears- point, "That low tune should be like official form, like his income tax returns, he did not write composer, 100 Centennial festivities. The con- ings. In addition to the Eos Orchestra als. Chaliapin singing." To a quartet of conductor, pianist or any other limiting term. He called himself a cert was jointly produced by the Lin- concert, the pianist and conductor Bernstein walked in for the first bassoons he explained that a particu- musician. He liked the word's embracing quality and venerable history. coln Center Festival. Skitch Hender- Michael Barrett will direct a pro- session that summer on a hot August lar passage was not a fanfare. "Ever In earlier eras, all professional musicians were composers as well as son and the New York Pops, and the gram called "The Unknown Bern- afternoon, wearing jeans and a heard a Russian choir singing in performers, not to mention teachers, proselytizers, organizers and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, will stein" on July 20 at Alice Tully Hall, sweatshirt that had Harvard spelled elongated notes?" he asked. And to a get things going. Then the lyricists presenting smaller-scaled works for in Hebrew characters. Short of whatever else it took to keep the tradition going. battery of brass players during the Betty Comden and Adolph Green will voice, piano and chamber ensemble. Yet in evaluating Bernstein, people still look at his accomplishments breath, stooped in the shoulders, his fortissimo glissandi in the primordi- separately. They argue over the quality of his compositions, his conduct- sing songs from the great show they The Hamburg Ballet, in three per- sizable paunch sagging, he looked al "Spring Rounds" section, he said, wrote with Bernstein, "On the formances at the New York State endearingly unmythic. The students "This has to be an assortment of ing, his piano playing, even his legacy with the New York Philharmonic, of which he was music director for 11 dynamic years from 1958 until 1969, Town." Finally, Mr. Masur and the Theater, on Wednesday and July 18, greeted him with applause, whoops groans and wails and troll sounds." Philharmonic will offer a tribute to will give the United States premiere and bravos. when he was made laureate conductor. But viewed in toto, which is the After two days, Bernstein and the two quintessential New Yorkers, of "Bernstein Dances," with a score way he viewed himself, he was one of the most dominant musicians of First thing, Bernstein established students had worked, in exhausting this century. And the best thing about the Lincoln Center Festival's Gershwin and Bernstein. Mr. Masur that uses songs and music from all the seriousness of the work at hand, detail, through the first long part of current Bernstein Celebration is the chance it provides to consider the will conduct Bernstein's Overture to stages of Bernstein's career. and the importance of the tradition this two-part piece. Coming back "Candide" and the Symphonic Yet the most intriguing events wide scope, and some little-explored corners, of his work. he represented, by explaining that from a rehearsal break (every 45 Dances from "West Side Story." I may be two symposiums at the Kap- the orchestra parts on all the music minutes or so, Bernstein, having per- Bernstein, who would have turned 80 on Aug. 25, died eight years ago, bet that Bernstein would have pre- lan Penthouse in Lincoln Center's stands were his own, a gift from his spired right through his sweatshirt, enough time, perhaps, for a re-evaluation of his work to make sense. ferred a program that also included Rose Building. The first, on July 20, mentor, and Stravinsky's friend, needed to change), he sensed that the While he was alive, his presence was too galvanizing. This is the view of Jonathan Sheffer, a composer and conductor who will direct the Eos less familiar works. Even during fes- "Leonard Bernstein as Student: Serge Koussevitzky, who had always young players could use a lift. So he tive outdoor concerts, Bernstein Classical Education for Musicians," used them. "So honor these parts," gave them a choice. Orchestra in a festival program called "Literally Bernstein" on July 23 liked to challenge listeners. will explore Bernstein's schooling Bernstein instructed the orchestra "I'll tell you what," he said. "Ei- at Alice Tully Hall. In the program notes for this concert, Mr. Sheffer I will never forget a summer con- and training. The other, on July 23, is with the gravity of a Talmudic schol- ther we can play through Part One compares the death of a "towering personality" like Bernstein to the death of a parent, which "may be both tragic and the first opportunity for cert I heard him do with the New "Leonard Bernstein as Teacher: The ar. The young musicians were in for fun, no stopping, no matter what York Philharmonic in a tent on the Young People's Concerts and the awe. happens, I promise. Or we can begin clarity." campus of C.W. Post College when I Norton Lectures." This should pro- The rehearsals were exacting and detailed work on Part Two." The This week and next, the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur vide a helpful context for Bernstein's students looked at each tentatively at is offering two programs as part of the celebration, presenting Bern- was in high school during the mid- detailed. Despite his penchant for stein's first two symphonies, "Jeremiah" and "The Age of Anxiety," 1960's. The program was Beetho- work, because everything he did was easily getting emotive and weepy, he first, but soon the consensus among ven's "Eroica" Symphony and Stra- driven by a passion, even a compul- was single-minded and mentally so- them was clear; they wanted to be- along with music by composers Bernstein championed, most notably sion, to teach. vinsky's "Rite of Spring." And in ber, never asking for a particular gin work on Part Two, they wanted Mahler. Bernstein's early symphonies are the efforts of a clearly gifted I witnessed the exhilaration of his Bernstein's readings, there was a passage to be "anguished" or "joy- Bernstein to keep teaching them, de- young musician to fashion American jazz, Hebraic chant, Mahlerian striking reciprocity between the teaching up close during the summer ous" or anything so vague. All his manding of them and revealing the angst and Stravinskian propulsiveness into big, sweeping statements. Classical symphony, which he made of 1987 at the Tanglewood Music Cen- suggestions were explicit and musi- secrets of this astounding piece. The How we react to them today probably depends upon whether they strike sound audacious and modern, and ter in Lenox, Mass. For six days, cally referential. fun of playing it would come soon us as the searching sound of an imperfect but impassioned new voice or Bernstein rehearsed a student or- the path-breaking 1913 ballet, which enough. the slapdash product of an overreaching composer with vacuum-cleaner chestra in "The Rite of Spring," in was thrilling and terrifying, yet ears. Bernstein will loom over a free concert tonight on the Great Lawn seemed compositionally inevitable. preparation for a special concert in E6 THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY. JULY 10, 1998 Revisiting Leonard Bernstein, the Magnetic Master of It All In explaining sonata form, he can't Once Bernstein left the full-time In 1973, Mr. Sheffer was taking a I answered by mentioning several. Continued From Weekend Page 1 avoid using what he calls those "nas- Philharmonic post, he slowly with- class with Bernstein, who was then a of his recordings as a pianist that In July 20 ty road map signs," the sectional drew from the Young People's Con- guest professor at Harvard, when genuinely treasure, especially an ar- The Young People's Concerts rep- terms he had "never been fond of" - certs. Did he also sense that televi- one day Bernstein showed up with resting 1947 performance of Cop- "LEONARD BERNSTEIN AS STUDENT: CLASSICAL EDUCATION FOR MUSI- resent an entirely different facet of exposition, development and reca- sion was already getting restless the just-completed score for "Dyb- land's Piano Sonata. CIANS," Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Bernstein the teacher. And it's easy pitulation. But he explains the over- with substance? It's a question that buk" in a four-hand piano arrange- Bernstein brightened. Building, 165 West 65th Street, 10th to poke fun at his persona from these all concept in terms of simple three- should be put to one panelist in the ment. With a student pianist to help "The one I like is my record of the floor. A discussion featuring panelists famous live-broadcast perform- part (ABA) form, and boosts the symposium about the concerts: Rog- Mozart Piano Quartets with mem- who shared Bernstein's education at out, Bernstein played the score right ances: Uncle Lenny, the cool daddy confidence of his young listeners by er Englander, the producer at CBS Harvard. 6 P.M. Free. through, Mr. Sheffer said. At the end, bers of the Budapest Quartet," he of music education who will make it giving them a diversity of compre- who was responsible for these vision- the giddy composer leaped to his feet said. "Now that one is good." "THE UNKNOWN BERNSTEIN," Alice ary broadcasts. Tully Hall. A program of small-scale all clear for us, or, in Tom Wolfe's hensible examples, from nursery memorable phrase, Bernstein, "the tunes to a Bizet aria. Bernstein's legacy as a conductor and shouted, "Another Leonard works for voice, piano and smaller in- rests safely with his enormous and Bernstein triumph!" strumentation. Performers include village explainer." Singing a Beatles Song indispensable recorded discography. He was seldom so confident. All his Paula Robison, flutist; Carter Brey, A Celebration But looking at tapes of these con- But to assess the depth of his legacy life, Bernstein worried that other cellist; Michael Barrett, pianist, and others. 8:30 P.M. certs today reveals what an astonish- Just when he senses the kids need as a composer, his music will need musicians considered him a brilliant ing achievement they were. Bern- The Bernstein Celebration at a charge, he uses a Beatles song, greater exposure. A little more toler- but superficial Jack-of-all-trades. July 23 stein was the first great artist to Lincoln Center Festival '98 "And I Love Her," to illustrate a comprehend the power of television ance in university circles would help This struck me the only time I ever point, playing it on the piano, singing interviewed him, during those "Rite runs through July 23 at Lin- "LEONARD BERNSTEIN AS TEACH- as an educational medium, and he it in his croaky baritone and inviting too. Of particular interest in this of Spring" rehearsals at Tangle- coln Center. Individual tickets ER: THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CON- knew he had the perfect combination them to laugh a bit at him, which regard should be Mr. Sheffer's per- are $20 to $60. Tickets are CERTS AND THE NORTON LEC- formance of the seldom-heard Bern- wood. Bernstein was reluctant to do TURES," Kaplan Penthouse, Rose of telegenic charisma and musical they do. But as the camera pans the stein score to the Jerome Robbins interviews just then, having just available at the Avery Fisher Building, 165 West 65th Street, 10th brilliance for the job. Nothing educa- audience, you see the face of en- ballet "Dybbuk Variations," first been burned by Joan Peyser's tell- Hall box office or through Cen- floor. A discussion featuring panelists tional television has done since has thralled children who get the point. all, salacious, unauthorized biogra- tercharge, (212) 721-6500. involved in these programs. 6 P.M. Eventually he discusses the com- performed in 1974 by the New York Free. surpassed these broadcasts. plex, gigantic form of the first move- City Ballet. phy. So to win his confidence, I men- Take, for one, a program from the "LITERALLY BERNSTEIN," Eos Or- tioned that I had studied with a re- fall of 1964, "What Is Sonata Form?" ment of Mozart's "Jupiter" Sympho- "The point of this entire program Tuesday chestra, Alice Tully Hall. Program in- To begin, Bernstein walks to the po- spected colleague of his, the pianist cludes a world premiere concert per- ny, which he performs with the Phil- is to demonstrate the sophisticated Leonard Shure. NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: BERN- formance of "Dybbuck"; "Songfest" dium and greets the audience, filled harmonic twice, and very well in- literary and intellectual aspects of STEIN/COPLAND/IVES/GERSHWIN, excerpts and "Serenade." 8:30 P.M. with youngsters, by saying: "It's deed. Never in this program do we Bernstein's compositions," Mr. Avery Fisher Hall. 8 P.M. Bernstein's good to be back after a nice summer. hear one word about Mozart the Sheffer said recently. A Mini-Tirade "Jeremiah" (Symphony No. 1) will be And since you are all looking so Wunderkind or Mozart the strug- Referring to "Dybbuk," which re- performed, along with works by Ives, He seemed warmer for a moment, Gershwin and Copland. bright and ready for work, I decided gling Viennese composer. It's all lates the Hebrew tale of a young man but immediately launched into a to try something I've avoided for close listening, analysis, comparison and woman whose love and intended mini-tirade about the way he was Wednesday years. Not because it's so difficult, and the joy of digging deeper into marriage had been sworn to by their perceived. but because so many words have music. fathers, even before the children "BERNSTEIN DANCES," New York "I get in trouble for doing every- been spilled about it in music appre- State Theater. A ballet revue by John Other Young People's Concerts were born, Mr. Sheffer added: "I thing," he said. "The composers Neumeier based on the music of Leon- ciation classes." were similarly substantive. Bern- think it's one of Bernstein's most don't consider me a real composer, ard Bernstein. The Hamburg Ballet. 8 Ready for work? Cultural pro- stein explored modern music, modal intensely composed works. The form the conductors don't consider me a P.M. gramming today is more concerned music, opera, jazz, the music of Sibe- of each movement brilliantly reflects real conductor and the pianists don't NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: BERN- with entertaining or even placating lius. He even did one program exam- what is happening in the story. It's consider me a real pianist." STEIN/COPLAND/IVES/GERSHWIN, viewers than with asking them to sit ining Beethoven's rejected sketches rigorous, attentive to the numerology What was going on? Was he Avery Fisher Hall. 8 P.M. up, pay attention and work. Of for the Fifth Symphony and speculat- of Hebrew alphabet and the mysti- shamelessly fishing for a compli- course, Bernstein knew how to make ing as to why he rejected them. July 18 cism of numbers. It will surprise ment? Or was the world's most fa- work fun, not just because he was so people." mous classical musician revealing "BERNSTEIN DANCES," New York engaging, but because he made com- his true insecurity, thinking that I, no State Theater. 2 and 8 P.M. plex musical concepts understand- able and audible. doubt, was another one of those pian- ists who didn't consider him a real pianist. Eos Eos Orchestra Jonathan Sheffer, Artistic Director & Conductor PRESS MATERIALS For more information, contact: Laura Kemsley Ames Director of Operations & Development 212.691.6415 tel / 212.691.6648 fax [email protected] / www.eosmusic.com September 8, 1998 Vol. XLIII No. 36 America's Largest Weekly Newspaper www.villagevoice.com Kaballistics Lilith particularly fortunate, given an ending where Climmerglass Opera neither Eve nor Lilith find victory but are bound Dybbuk agonizingly to each other for eternity. Eos Orchestra Drattell's music feeds on that friction and Lincoln Center Festival, July 23 hurls at you a shrewdly balanced mixture of grating dissonance, throbbing lyricism, dark- BY LEIGHTON KERNER shadowed threnody, and pounding percussion. Yes, she's basically a conservative, but Drattell, he common noun is "cabala," like a few other composers on the current scene, signifying a secret, perhaps con- knows how to charge up the diatonic engines spiratorial system of mystical lore and burn up the road. Soprano Lauren Flani- or even secular dealings among gan, whose turf reaches from Off-Broadway and individuals. The low end of the Glimmerglass to La Scala, and for whom Drat- category is "cabal," of which you may choose tell has written much other potent music, from among the range of current examples in soared and blazed as Eve. She also curdled politics, the arts, and commerce. The proper blood with her (required) screams. The rest of noun Kabbalah refers to a Hebraic system of the cast came from Glimmerglass's junior con- theosophy that involves not only apocryphal, tingent, and that included the visually and vo- cautionary legends, but also elements like cally sultry Elizabeth Shammash as Lilith. Glim- numerology and special letters and words im- merglass's music director, Stewart Robertson, posed on any attempt to interpret the stories. conducted the singers and an often boiling Why such a topic turns up in a report on chamber orchestra with electric precision. The piece, by the way, was to have been performed in New York last year at the perfectly suitable Dicapo Opera Theater under 92nd Street Y auspices, but a dispute with the musicians' union scrubbed it. However, since Drat- tell is resident composer for New York City Opera, as well as Glim- merglass, maybe Lilith can even- tually be staged here, complete with the long stretches of chilling music (played at Glimmerglass) for the dancing monsters. THE KABBALAH'S dybbuk leg- end is better known than the Lilith affair, thanks largely to S. Ansky's 1920 play, Between Two Worlds, a title that has almost universally dis- appeared in favor of the subtitle, The Dybbuk. (Shulamit Ran's re- cent, gripping opera on the subject restores Ansky's original prefer- ence.) Bernstein's Dybbuk, com- pleted in 1974 and first danced that year at New York City Ballet (and never again except for excerpts), with Robbins's choreography, is Deborah Drattell, the composer of Lilith, a shrewdly balanced one of the composer's most struc- mixture of grating dissonance and throbbing lyricism turally and emotionally complex works. Only the original, and per- music hinges on two works performed this haps abandoned, version of his opera A Quiet summer whose sources are part of the Kabbalah. Place compares with it in that respect. Because One is Deborah Drattell's Lilith, which had its no dance performance of Dybbuk is allowed un- the village world premiere August 16 in a concert version less Robbins's choreography is used, and be- at Glimmerglass Opera, near Cooperstown, cause he exhibited no intention to revive his bal- New York. The other is an Eos Orchestra-Lin- let up to the time of his recent death, concert coln Center Festival revival, also in concert performances are now the only way to hear this form, of Leonard Bernstein's score for the Je- nearly 50-minute score. rome Robbins ballet Dybbuk. Jonathan Sheffer conducting his Eos Or- Lilith first. According to tradition (but not chestra at Tully Hall for the Lincoln Center Fes- the Bible), Lilith was formed from earth-as tival certainly delivered a performance full of was Adam-and not from his rib; she became clashing, stomping rhythms, ghostly sound- his first wife. But she angered God by demand- clouds, and keening song. Philip Cutlip and ing rights equal to Adam's, the grisly con- Richard Bernstein (no relation to the composer) sequences of which provided the downside to negotiated their ornate chants dramatically the Glimmerglass season's celebration of Susan enough to turn the now invisible ballet into a B. Anthony-style feminism. Being rejected, Lil- scary music-theater of the mind. Bernstein may ith became a queen of demons and led men have used some of the Kabbalah's numerology into sexual perversions (inappropriate relation- (the vital 18 for blessings at prayer, for instance) ships?) that produced monsters. The libretto by and its word systems, and he may have made David Steven Cohen, better known as a TV and one of his rare, apprehensive invasions into se- film writer, begins at Adam's funeral, with Eve, rialism with this score, but what comes at you her children, and a small chorus of Lilith's prog- most strongly is the (here we go again!) friction eny at the graveside. Ritual Hebrew chant and among musical languages. Old-style Hebraic steel-edged English lamentation and vitu- chant becomes, for example, just as powerful a peration are juxtaposed throughout the brief force as the dance's atonality and ostinati. The (about an hour) work, and the friction between fact that the music ends in unearthly instru- languages shoots out the right sparks. This is mental whispers should warn you. V JEWISH THE SAMUEL EXOOUS OF AUGUST 10, 1998 CLASSICAL MUSIC PETER G. DAVIS Portrait of an Artist Lincoln Center's tribute to Bernstein is wide-ranging but far less exuberant than the man it set out to bonor: Caramoor's 'Lucrezia Borgia' bits its mark. HE MUSICAL INGREDIENTS OF THIS summer's Lincoln Center Festival were low-key and not remarkably enterprising. Even A Bernstein Cel- ebration, which seemed to want to be the festival's central musical event, came off as something of a knee-jerk occasion. I know, Leo- nard Bernstein would have been 80 this month, and his hometown had to mark the date somehow, but how much imagination does it take to hit on the idea of celebrating America's most famous musician, one whose whole life was a frantically orches- trated fiesta? Besides, his colorful legacy, al- ready tirelessly promoted by his family and those with a commercial stake in it, has enough built-in energy to sustain itself. What this celebration lacked in any case was a major-focus event that might put a fresh perspective on such an overexposed figure- a first New York performance of A White House Cantata perhaps, an effort to salvage the best music from Bernstein's spectacular 1976 Broadway flop, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Or even another attempt to disci- pline that perennially unruly problem child, Candide, would have been welcome, if only in concert. from musicals: and two chamber arrangements, Halil, a Under the banner of "Bernstein: Composer and late work originally for flute and orchestra, and the two Leonard Champion," the Philharmonic led by Kurt Masur of- meditations from Mass. Unlike some composers, whose Bernstein, fered two predictable concerts in honor of its former unpublished posthumous manuscripts often reveal ma- circa 1967. music director: His first two symphonies together with jor treasures, Bernstein apparently gave us everything music by Mahler, Copland. Gershwin, and Ives, scores he had while he was alive. closely identified with Bernstein the conductor. Any The meatiest event was presented by the Eos cham- maestro would probably be disadvantaged presiding ber orchestra conducted by Jonathan Sheffer. which over such programs, especially on this memory-charged performed three scores that may well prove to be Bern- occasion, and Masur hardly has the American concert stein's most enduring contributions to the concert idiom in his blood. Still, it was instructive to hear the repertory: the Serenade for violin, the Dybbuk ballet. two symphonies again. I've never much cared for the and Songfest, a collection of songs set to texts by a di- sweaty lamentations of the Jeremiah Symphony, in verse group of American poets. Like virtually every- which the 25-year-old composer seems to be self-con- thing Bernstein wrote, these pieces have a literary basis. sciously trying to meet the high expectations of two and all three show how passionately he responded to stern paternal figures, his actual father and conductor words and ideas when they truly fired his imagination. Serge Koussevitsky. The Age of Anxiety Symphony is a The Serenade is in effect an ingeniously plotted violin more original and characteristically exuberant piece. concerto reflecting the profound discussion of love at particularly if one just listens to the music and ignores Plato's famous dinner party in the Symposium. Dybbuk the W.H. Auden poem that the score so diligently at- may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to tempts to mirror. crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk "The Unknown Bernstein" was the subject of a con- music, cantorial prayer. and serial techniques. It's a cert prepared and presented by pianist-conductor shame that only excerpts from Songfest could be per- Michael Barrett. one of the great man's close musical as- formed-this score may be Bernstein's masterpiece, dis- sociates during his last years. Nothing startling was un- tinguished by both its careful workmanship and deep veiled in this subdued program consisting mainly of expressive resonance. Anyone who could write three amiable scraps from Bernstein's bottom drawer: brief such imposing scores would have to be numbered among piano pieces written for family and friends: songs cut America's finest composers. Arts Ideas The New York Times SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1998 FESTIVAL REVIEW/Music The Role of the Literary In the Music of Bernstein By JAMES R. OESTREICH may, in fact, have been the independ- ence of a well-trained mind that al- Leonard Bernstein, who died in lowed Bernstein to go his own way - 1990, would have turned 80 next make that ways - with such assur- month, and various aspects of his ance, flying in the face of orthodoxy remarkable life and achievements if not always fashion. have been commemorated in recent And one way was the American weeks, notably at the Lincoln Center Festival. To an extent, it was his way. That was a given in the 1977 work "Songfest," selections from education at the Boston Latin School which opened the concert on Thurs- and Harvard that was celebrated on day. Its 12 songs draw mainly on Thursday evening in "Literally: American poets, ranging from the Stephanie Berger Bernstein," the program of the Eos venerable (Whitman and Millay) to Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall that Jonathan Sheffer conducts the Eos Orchestra in a tribute called the hip (Lawrence Ferlinghetti), and ended the festival's Bernstein series. embody sympathetic and idiomatic "Literally: Bernstein" on Thursday at Alice Tully Hall. "This concert addresses the fact that Leonard Bernstein received a responses from the composer. Four numbers were presented thorough classical education, and here, those recently reorchestrated Bernstein and the Literary that literature played an enormous for small orchestra by Sid Ramin, role in his musical life," Jonathan George Steel and Charles Harmon. Ansky. This was said to be the first Sheffer, Eos's artistic director, Whitman's "To What You Said" Continued From First Arts Page complete performance of the work wrote in his program notes. made the strongest impression, in an since the year of its birth and "its An artist's education may seem an excellent reading by Richard Bern- finale in Ms. Meyers's well-matched odd thing to single out for celebra- premiere as a concert piece." tion, since it is so much of a piece stein, a bass-baritone. Philip Cutlip, a interchange with Roger Shell, the But it is not a concert piece, or at with the mature creator. But when baritone, and Angelina Réaux, a orchestra's principal cellist. least not an entirely effective one, mezzo-soprano, had appropriate the liberal arts draw scorn in many This concertolike work, for all its seeming fragmentary and repeti- sport with Gertrude Stein's inscruta- quarters and canons of all sorts are greater formality and for all the an- tious at times despite its many lovely ble "Storyette H.M." and alternated thought by some to contaminate cul- tiquity of its subject, Plato's "Sym- and exhilarating moments. ture, Mr. Sheffer's notion is mildly in works by Mr. Ferlinghetti and posium," is hardly less American The male singers were back as Julia de Burgos. provocative. Bernstein's "Serenade," of 1954, and up-to-date in sound than "Song- soloists, Mr. Bernstein again sound- Here, after all, was a composer followed in an eloquent performance fest." ing especially strong. Here, as steeped in canons, musical, literary by the violin soloist, Anne Akiko Another Bernstein way was that of throughout the evening, the orches- and otherwise; a composer who took Meyers, who persuasively evoked his Jewish heritage, which was rep- tra responded capably and eagerly to inspiration freely from his European the work's conceit of conversation. resented here by the ballet score Mr. Sheffer's direction, though the forebears and from ancient texts. The dialogue became literal in the "Dybbuk," a 1974 adaptation of a overall sonority was often diffuse. Yet was there ever a musician more Yiddish play by the pseudonymous S. In all, a stimulating evening. attuned to his own time and place? It Continued on Page B12 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1998 REVIEWS When Jazz Influences Classical By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Jonathan Sheffer, the music director and conductor of Eos Music, now in its third season, clearly has his hands on some solid financial sources and generous patrons. Be- sides presenting concerts, Eos has organ- ized interdisciplinary festivals, released CD recordings and even published three books. But concerts are its main concern, and Saturday night's orchestra program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which focused on 20th-century composers from the classical tradition who have been influenced by jazz, was a typically ambitious Eos Mu- sic event. The largest works were two recent con- certos written for the impressive British saxophonist John Harle, who was the fea tured soloist. The 1988 Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra by the Brit- ish composer Richard Rodney Bennett is a rhapsodic piece in which an intriguing sense of detachment between soloist and orches tra is often created. There are long stretch es where the alto saxophone almost floats ruminatively or quizzically, above fidgety string writing with just hints of jazz in it The main problem with the other work featuring Mr. Harle, the Concerto for So prano Saxophone and Orchestra composed in 1966 by Mr. Sheffer, is the scoring: a large orchestra (here more than 60 players with a healthy contingent of brass and per cussion) often overpowered the plaintively reedy tones of Mr. Harle's instrument. M Sheffer likened the form of his concerto to a tone poem, but it just sounded amorphous The program also offered two contrasting jazz-spirited works. Stravinsky's brilliantly economical "Ebony Concerto" was written in 1946 for the Woody Herman jazz band The music sounds like the work of a compos er who has heard all about jazz, but not exactly heard it himself. Still, it is a bracing and perky piece. Darius Milhaud's ballet score "La Cré ation du Monde" was written by a French- man who had absorbed jazz firsthand in Harlem. But, though Milhaud's evocations are more authentically jazzy, the music suffered by comparison with Stravinsky's. Mr. Sheffer and his players brought skill and verve to all the performances. TimeOut Jan 29-Feb 5, 1998 Issue No. 123 $1.95 FLASH! The scoop from the Sundance New Yc Film Festival HELP! Apartment cleaning Natasha Gregson Wagner services and Heather Graham YUM! beguile Robert Downey Jr. in Two Girls and a Guy Hot chefs' Favorit Tomorrow never dies: futuristic images on a ticket Fairy gathering NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMBUNATION 1939 BOOK book, left, and a postcard from the 1939 World's Fair. The Eos Ensemble revives music from TICKETS 1540 work's Tin Pan Alley origins without 1375 entirely forsaking the concert world." Flushing Meadows' 1939 World's Fair Sheffer agrees. "Every performance of the Rhapsody you ead out past Flushing Meadows, predict the hear today Is done with 50 strings, H and you'll see the remnants of future more and it just seems over the top," he the future-or, to be more accurately explains. "Gershwin was most at precise, the relics of the "World than anything home in the Broadway pit, and of Tomorrow," as the 1939 World's else at the '39 personally that's the way I think his Fair humbly billed itself. Fair? Sheffer says it did, work should be done." But as the Eos Ensemble's stating in his program So prevalent was Gershwin's director Jonathan Sheffer points book that both the rural spirit that-with the help of his out, hearing the musical echoes of simplicity of The City and lyricist brother Ira and the that year takes a little more effort, the parallel harmonies of Sorcery death two years earlier. "Gershwin orchestrator Kay Swift-he provided since most of the works written for clearly anticipated Copland's folksy was the spiritual godfather to the '39 the Fair's theme song, "Dawn of a the occasion have maintained Americana period of the 1940s. Fair," says pianist Michael Boriskin, New Day," sung this week by about as much cultural currency But Copland's presence paled in who performs Rhapsody in Blue in its Michael Feinstein. as the Unisphere. comparison to that of George 1926 chamber orchestration, which Commissioning a dead Gershwin Eos's idea to resuscitate music Gershwin, who dominated the exists only in manuscript at the over a live William Grant Still (the from the 1939 World's Fair proceedings despite his untimely Library of Congress. "Jackie Robinson of classical originated in 1995, when Copland The chamber version music," as Sheffer terms him) is a biographer Vivian Perlis alerted was the one Gershwin touchy racial subject even today. Sheffer to the composer's music for himself played, since Still was originally selected as the From Sorcery to Science-a puppet today's standard full- Fair's official composer by a blind play commissioned for the 1939 orchestra version wasn't listening panel. His daughter, Judith, Fair's House of Pharmacy. The published until 1942. has claimed publicly for years that score has languished, unperformed, Authenticity aside, both her father's piece, Song of a City ever since. Sheffer and Boriskin- (an anthem for chorus and While tracking down the score currently recording orchestra opening Eos's concert), in the Library of Congress, Sheffer Gershwin's complete was relegated to the Fair's also found the composer's score to works for orchestra and Perisphere when organizers Pare Lorentz's 1939 futuristic film, piano for BMG Conifer- discovered he was black. The City. For Sheffer, who also claim a preference for Judith Still has few official composes and conducts in the smaller version. corroborators, and Sheffer refuses to Hollywood, the discovery of both "The Rhapsody can take sides. But the composer's works was overwhelming. survive anything," says daughter does have one bit of "Copland didn't consider himself Boriskin. "But if you think history to support her claim: Her above or beyond anything," he says. about the spirit of the father couldn't even enter the "He did it all, and each of these piece-a brash snapshot fairgrounds to hear his music until works has all the excitement of of the whole jazz age- the designated "Negro Day." someone trying out a new medium." then a leaner, more -Ken Smith And the fact that both were written athletic orchestration for the World's Fair raises an Gershwinner: Michael Boriskin plays music by the makes that point The Eos Ensemble performs at Alice interesting question: Did the music 1939 World's Fair's favorite composer. brilliantly. It shows the Tully Hall on Monday 2. 1.95/$2.95 Outside NY Metro Area Jan 29-Feb 5, 1998 115 peyona 31880 884 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER SAN FRANCISCO, CA DAILY 128,736 FRIDAY APR 4 1997 Cage: "The Seasons," "Credo in Us"; Harrison: "The Open Road"; Haieff: "Princess Zondilda and her Entourage"; Feldman: "Ixion." Eos Ensemble conducted by Jonathan Sheffer. BMG Classics 09026-68751. One of the records of the year. It was a brilliant idea to assemble some of more illustrious scores spe- cifically composed for dancer-cho- reographer Merce Cunningham in the early part of his career. The execution by New York's superb contemporary music group hits the heights, too. Here's Cage, offering both a no- tated score in "The Seasons" and chance elements in "Credo in Us." Here's Lou Harrison, before Asian music found its way to the heart of his aesthetic. Here's the under- rated Alexei Haieff and Morton Feldman with the music that ac- companied Cunningham's memo- rable "Summerspace." In short, this is a portrait of the American avant-garde at a particu- lar point in its history and should interest both dance and music fans alike. Grab it up; releases like this don't remain long in the catalog. The New York Times FRIDAY. JANUARY 24, 1997 CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Minimalism as an 18th-Century Idea Sheba" and Mr. Glass's Violin Con- the momentary glint of sunlight on a By PAUL GRIFFITHS certo (with Eric Wyrick as soloist, raised sword or the odd tuck of a charmingly and unpretentiously giv- passing uniform. Jonathan Sheffer is a musician ing us his practice session), two of The worry at these concerts was of with a mission, or rather with sev- the works in Monday's concert, there rather too many odd tucks. Mr. eral missions. Speaking on Tuesday is not much further to go. Mr. Pärt Sheffer likes not only intelligent pro- night at a symposium he had organ- has said how much he loves Vivaldi, grams but also long ones: the three ized at the Paula Cooper Gallery in and "Tabula Rasa," played at the pieces before intermission on Mon- Chelsea, he defended with quiet in- same concert, bore him out, as it day - the Pärt, the Glass and tensity the essentialness of concerts, always does. Reich's "Eight Lines" - would have for immediacy of contact between On Wednesday Mr. Sheffer cheat- been sufficient for an entire concert. public and performers, and unpre- ed a bit by giving us his own arrange- Rehearsal time must therefore have dictability of content. He also wants ments of pieces from "The Well- his concerts to make a point. Tempered Clavier," done up to in- been at a premium, which might "Programming," he has written, clude chasing Reichian marimbas account for some raggedness from "constitutes the very identity of an and Adamsish strong pulsations (as the strings (in togetherness and in ensemble." And in two Alice Tully well as weird touches of Alfred tuning) and a hesitancy in the key- Hall concerts with his own Eos En- Schnittke). Even so, afterward, the board playing that sapped energy semble, on Monday and Wednesday, real Adams - "Shaker Loops" and from the Reich. he showed us what he meant. the third act of "Nixon in China" - Mr. Sheffer is a decisive conduc- Previous Eos endeavors have fo- came from a different world. tor, and when his players are totally cused on the music of a writer (Paul History advises caution in compar- with him, as they were in the Glass Bowles) and choreographer ison. Creative rediscoveries of Bach and the Handel, what results is excel- (scores written for Merce Cunning- date back to Mozart, by way of We- lent. But he needs to temper his ham); this time the theme was larg- bern, Stravinsky, Brahms, Beetho- enthusiasm with practicality. er and more conjectural. It had OC- ven and almost everyone else: it is a "Nixon," though, is music that curred to Mr. Sheffer, as it must long conversation that the minimal- adores enthusiasm, and this taste of have occurred to many of us listen- ist phone call has a place in. And, as the score, coming nearly 10 years ing to the C major Prelude from the was suggested at the symposium, the after the premiere, sharpened the first book of "The Well-Tempered connection depends not on Bach as feeling that a full-scale production is Clavier" or the opening of Handel's played in 1997 but on Bach as heard overdue. When one comes, it could "Zadok the Priest," that minimalism in the 1950's and 60's, when the mini- was invented in the 18th century. malist generation was growing up: usefully employ Mr. Sheffer's cast. Hence his idea of presenting music the Bach of Glenn Gould and Wendy James Maddalena, the original by Bach and Handel alongside that of Carlos. Nixon, showed again the quiet lyrical Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Philip Glass Musicians now, responding to ex- desperation of a man both impatient and John Adams. periments in Baroque style that have and impotent; Juliana Gondek The lessons of these concerts, how- intervened, would be inclined to clucked prettily as Pat; Peter Ka- ever, did not have much bearing on phrase more freely, as the delicious zaras was stunning as the wild Mao the thesis. Once one has noted the oboes did in "The Queen of Sheba." of this opera (madman or dream- common foundation in arpeggios of What has come to matter is less the er?) and Chris Pedro Trakas took us Handel's "Entrance of the Queen of drill of battalions of arpeggios than gently into the night as Chou En-lai. American Record Guide November/December 1996 BOWLES: First Suite; Suite for Small Orch- director Jonathan Sheffer) are charming set- estra; 2-Piano Concerto: The Wind Remains: tings of a fascinating diversity of writers, Secret Words including Lorca. Jane Bowles, Gertrude Stein, Carl Halvorson, t: Lucy Schauffer, mz: Kurt and Bowles himself. As Virgil Thomson re- Ollmann, bar-Catalyst 68409 (BMG) 70 minutes marked. "The texts fit their tunes like a peach The Bowles music revival continues right its skin." Tenor Carl Halvorson. baritone Kurt along with the literary one. Compared to the Ollmann, and mezzo Lucy Schaufer sing Koch disc I reviewed in the last issue, which sweetly and unaffectedly, which is the way to offered Bowles's earlier chamber works, this do Bowles. In his informative annotation, K new program is both broader in range and Robert Schwarz quotes Bowles as saying that warmer in sensibility. The Eos Ensemble is singing should aim at "distorting speech the simply smashing: authoritative and meticu- least amount possible". lous but also exuberant. They somehow make Yet how can sweetness and naturalness this spare, miniaturist music sound larger than have anything to do with a composer who life. That should really come as no surprise. It wrote such icy, controlled prose, and who was the Eos Ensemble, after all, that presented regarded music as remote, spatial architecture the amazing 1995 Bowles Festival in New York, rather than communication? The most senti- with the composer in attendance. having mental song here-the lovely and haunting made a rare trip to the country he has been in 'Secret Words' composed for Bowles's exile from for half a century. The pieces played best friend, composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, at that festival and on this disc had not been yet it was to her that Bowles wrote in 1948 that heard for 40 or 50 years-an appropriate gap music contains "an inherent lie" because the given how heavily Bowles is invested in being writing of it "can't possibly be communication: an outsider, existing physically and spiritually it happens, and after that one pretends one in remote outposts of the Moroccan desert. meant to be communicative". To Bowles, The Eos Ensemble plays them with a freshness music is "a communion with the unknown. that makes them seem as if they were written nothing more", yet the songs seem peculiarly yesterday. intimate and human. Perhaps the solution to For a vivid example, punch in the opening the paradox lies in the title 'Secret Words': movement of the Two-Piano concerto, widely Bowles's music does communicate, but in sec- regarded as Bowles's masterpiece, or the mari- ret ways he cannot apprehend as he writes it. achi-band 'La Lucha', which opens the First Anyone interested in these musings should Suite. Everyone plays with a crazed momen- get the recently published In Touch: the Letters tum bordering on delirium, yet preserving the of Paul Bowles. They are full of provocative, cool elegance that holds these works together. original musical commentary. And anyone Whatever else makes them cohere is mysteri- remotely interested in Bowles the composer ous; Bowles eschews all the structural conven- should grab this vividly recorded disc (listen to tions of Western concert music. There is no the biting immediacy of the brass in the open- sonata or sectional form, no development. and ing Suite). These are the most compelling, yes very little repetition of any sort. Ideas seem to communicative, performances of Bowles's simply grow out of each other, even though music now available. the idioms rapidly shift, one minute sounding SULLIVAN like Poulenc dance hall music, another like gamelan riffs, another like jazz. They can even resemble, as in the opening to the Suite for Small Orchestra, Bowles's beloved Moroccan Berber music, which he once described as "the childhood of melody". and which he excavated in his desert adventures as an amateur ethno- musicologist. Bowles's songs are simpler. more direct. more overtly lyrical than his instrumental pieces. The Wind Remains and 'Secret Words' (the latter an orchestral arrangement by Eos THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 11, 1998 F.J. van der Tol President - International Lawyers Group Arthur Andersen AOZT Kosmodamianskaya nab 52/2 Moscow 113054 Dear Mr. van der Tol: Thank you for your invitation for the First Lady to address the members of the International Lawyers Group during her recent visit to Moscow. Regrettably, Mrs. Clinton's schedule during the trip made it impossible for her to accept your kind invitation. But she has asked me to convey her appreciation for your thoughtfulness, and very best wishes in your important work. All the best. Sincerely, Melanne Verveer Chief of Staff to the First Lady 28/08 98 FRI 18:40 FAX 7 095 755 97 10 4802 ARTHUR ANDERSEN 002 Regul INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS GROUP MOSCOW, RUSSIA I.L.G. 1998-99 President: August 12, 1998 By Courier and Telefacsimile Fokke J. van der Tol (+1 202 456-9431) Board of Directors: Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton Fokke J. van der Tol Office of the First Lady phone 755-9700 telefax 755-9710 The White House tokke.j.van.der.tol@ 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. arthurandersen.com Paul Backer Washington, D.C. phone 972-6370/71 United States of America telefax 978-9441 [email protected] Yorck Jetter phone 258-3450 Dear Mrs. Clinton: telefax 258-3456 [email protected] Richard L. Wirthlin I feel honored and privileged to have this opportunity to invite you, on behalf phone 785-1234 telefax 785-1235 of the International Lawyers Group of Moscow, to address the members of [email protected] our group during your upcoming visit to Moscow. Brian L. Zimbler phone 956-3935 telefax 956-3936 We invite you to speak on a topic of your choosing. One possible topic of [email protected] great relevance for Russia is the role of the Rule of Law in a democratic, plu- ralistic society, particularly as it impacts upon human, gender, civil and in- vestors' rights. We realize that, as the date of your visit is rapidly approaching, your schedule probably allows very little free time. However, we believe that your speech to the International Lawyers Group would be of great importance for the entire legal community in Russia, where we work to promote a bright future for Rus- sia and its successful integration into the world community of democratic states. The International Lawyers Group is an association of predominantly foreign lawyers, mostly from the United States, although more and more from Russia. FAX 7 095 755 97 10 4802 ARTHUR ANDERSEN 003 ILG Mrs. Clinton August 12, 1998 Page Two These lawyers belong to the many foreign legal firms, Big Five accounting firms and multinational corpora- tions active in Russia. It is the only organization of its kind for foreign attorneys in Russia. Many of our members have studied in the most reputable law schools in the United States. Many others have also studied and practised law in various jurisdictions throughout the world. Our members represent the overwhelming majority of the foreign investors in Russia. More and more our members also represent large Russian enter- prises. Several of our members are U.S. governmental attorneys, here with the State Department and other organizations. The majority of our members are citizens of the United States and the majority of the law firms which our members represent are based in the United States. An important activity of the International Lawyers Group is our regular breakfast meetings at the National Hotel where we discuss topics which are relevant for our daily work as lawyers. For that purpose, we invite speakers who are knowledgeable and experienced in the area under attention. During the past three years, we have had the pleasure to host a large number of high profile speakers ranging from senior cabinet ministers of the Russian government to the opposition candidate for the last round of the 1996 presidential elections of the Russian Federation. We expect that your speech will be attended by the large majority of our more than 350 members. If you wish we can also invite other prominent members of the Russian legal community to this event. The ILG will co- operate with any security measures required. As mentioned above, while the ILG generally sponsors breakfast meetings, allowing our members to meet prior to the start of the working day, we will of course schedule a meeting at any other time to accommodate your schedule. If you would like to have any further information, please feel free to contact either (a) me, at the Moscow of- fice of Arthur Andersen (phone +7 501 755-9700 telefacsimile 755-9710); or (b) our senior Board Member from the United States, Mr. Richard L. Wirthlin, at the Moscow office of Latham & Watkins (phone +7 503 785-1234; telefacsimile 785-1235). Thank you for your kind consideration of our invitation. Very Truly Yours F.J. van der Tol, President International Lawyers Group THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 20, 1998 Ms. Tania Vitvitsky Sabre Foundation 872 Massachusetts Avenue Suite 2-1 Cambridge, MA 02139 Dear Tania: Thank you very much for keeping us informed about Sabre's work in promoting democracy building. We were grateful for the letter from Mathilda Babadagly. The vital work Sabre is doing in Ukraine is commendable. Best wishes. Sincerely, Melanne Verveer Chief of Staff to the First Lady 02/17/1998 10:18 6178687916 SABRE FOUNDATION PAGE 01 P SABRE FOUNDATION, INC. Scientific Assistance Project telephone 617/868-3510 872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1 fax 617/868-7916 Cambridge, MA 02139 e-mail [email protected] FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION To: Melanne Verveer At: Chief of Staff to the First Lady Date: 2/16/98 Fax: 202/456-6244 From: Tania Vitvitsky Pages (including this one): 3 Message: Dear Ms. Verveer: Attached please find a recent thank you letter from Ukraine, testifying to the important role played by Sabre's Ukrainian partner, Sabre-Svitlo, in making books available to medical doctors in Ukraine. Also attached is a recent article from The Ukrainian Weekly describing a technical assistance project in Rohatyn, western Ukraine. This is one more example of a public-private partnership: although the Rohatyn "gymnasium" project is privately funded, U.S. government funding (USIA and AID Ocean Freight Reimbursement) played an important role in helping Sabre to maintain its book and information technologies training projects in many countries, including Ukraine. I look forward to Mrs. Clinton's presentation tomorrow at the State Department. Tamia Vitnity 02/17/1998 10:18 6178687916 SABRE FOUNDATION PAGE 02 2/12/98 Sample thank you letter from Ukraine (via e-mail): Education is the best treasure society provides humans with. Wide access to modern libraries and literature is the most essential component of education. Unfortunately, during last few years Ukraine suffered lack of information which extremely affected medical staff. At the same time, doctors should be always aware of new medical achievements as well as fundamental National and foreign works. Founded by American donors Sabre-Svitlo Foundation provides unique opportunity to get acquainted with books which were not available for a long time. Scholars of Lviv Medical University, research institutes of biochemistry, medical genetics, microbiology, Institute of sport trainers as well as English-speaking medical staff make everyday use of this opportunity. I have over 30-year experience in child neurology. I am a faculty member of the Department of neurology of Lviv Medical University and cooperate with Lviv Neonathal Center which was created due to Alliance program of H. Ford Institute in Detroit and Lviv Treat and rehabilitation center Elita. I am author of over 80 scholarly publications, participated in numerous international conferences. I speak English fluently, and also may read German and French. Books I was granted by Sabre-Svitlo enable me to increase my professional level, to enhance teaching of neurology. Our Department established a series of special students scientific workshops where students delivered their papers in English. Ukrainian and foreign students of Lviv Medical University actively studied fundamentals of neurology using Sabre-Svitlo's literature. My cooperation with Treat and rehabilitation center Elita as well as scientific research in the field of the rehabilitation of handicapped children also caused active cooperation with Sabre-Svitlo. New method of child cerebral palsy treatment was developed in Lviv. Since 1990 this method is used by specialists of Elita and numerous patients from Ukraine, CIS and Europe were recovered. This method was invented by Dr. V.I.Koziavkin, honorable member of the New York Academy, director of Lviv institute of Medical rehabilitation. Great interest to this method caused organization of numerous conferences in Italy. Swiss, Germany, Poland. During these forums Dr.Koziavkin and we, his assistants, demonstrated practical results of treatment and new research methods of the Institute. Preparation to these conferences was always assisted by Sabre-Svitlo. Despite of modern information sources (Internet, Medline) available at the Institute, Sabre-Svitlo's library is the most important source for those who appreciate the book. Sabre-Svitlo's activity made our research and everyday practical work more interesting and enables us to get acquainted with high level of modern medicine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to American donors, who made Sabre-Svitlo's appearance possible, Foundation's director Olha V. Isaievych and all the staff. 1 hope for further cooperation and development of fruitful partnership between the USA and Ukraine. Sincerely yours, Mathilda Babadagly Assistant Professor Department of Neurology Lviv Medical University 22 Vyshenskoho Str., App. 3 Lviv, 290010, Ukraine tel. (0322) 75-96-30 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1998 No. 4 PAGE 03 Sabre Foundation and Rohatyn restore educational dreams by Irena Danysh With the partnership of Sabre, the gymnasium and the teachers who care, and students who want to learn," said CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Nestled in the hills of Ivano- board of trustees, a project of goodwill and aspiration Ms. Schneider. Frankivsk Oblast lies the small but proud town of toward fulfilling children's educational dreams was begun. Despite the lack of resources, there have been some Rohatyn. Rohatyn has several things of which to be proud: The St. Volodymyr the Great Gymnasium has both successes: the gymnasium placed fourth of 16 schools in for starters, it is the birthplace of the famous Roxalana, flourished and struggled throughout its history. Founded in the academic competitions recently held in Ivano- who in 1520, at the age of 15. was kidnapped by the Turks 1906 by a priest who was determined to save the local Frankivsk Oblast. More impressively, gymnasium stu- and found herself in the harem of Sultan Suliman II, yet young scholars from the long trek to Lviv for their exami- dents captured two positions among the 12 students cho- rose to become his cherished advisor. Before the sultan's nations, it flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, acquiring a sen from 400 contestants to study in the U.S. death, Roxalana managed to ensure that her OWN son substantial new wing to extend its capacity. During this Ms. Schneider produced a detailed report assessing the would become sultan, and thereafter she continued her time it produced many graduates renowned for cultural gymnasium's current state and its critical needs. Her eval- powerful advisory role. Today the silhouette of a mosque and political achievements both at home and abroad. uations included an itemized list of each department's consecrated to her enlivens the picturesque skyline of However, politics and impending war forced the gymnasi- basic and optimum financial and material needs, as well as Istanbut. um to close in 1939 when the library was burned down a modest wish lists of teachers of each subject. SABRE FOUNDATION But this is a story of legend and extraordinary luck from and professors and students were sent into exile. The denor foundation was very enthusiastic about ancient days. Today Rohatyn has another source of pride, The gymnasium reopened in 199L and now boasts Sabre's report and agreed to immediately respond to rec- which dominates its own skyline. approximately 360 students age 7 to 17, 60 of whom are ommendations. Sabre, the fund's board of trustees and Atop Rohatyn's higher hills sits the handsome and his- part of the primary school affiliate. Prospective students gymnasium principals have been in frequent contact to toric gymnasium (secondary school academy) of St. must pass entrance exams at the age of 12 in order to implement the agreements reached. The board of trustees Volodymyr the Great. Like Rexalana, it has been fought attend the gymnasium proper. covered all costs of the needs assessment; a wide range of over, and appropriated by, various groups for periods in its Hope in renewal notwithstanding, the school has a English-language materials obtained from Sabre's partner colorful past. (My own great-grandfather, Judge Petro number of dire needs. Recently housed in temporary quar- in Ukraine, Sabre-Svitlo; and 10 reconditioned computers Kohut, was its main champion and benefactor in the ters near the city square, as well as in a portion of the orig- with appropriate educational software procured by Sabre. 1920s.) inal building that is shared with an agricultural and techni- Lastly, on August 1, 1997, Ukraine's Cabinet of With the advent of Ukraine's independence, Rohatyn's cal school, the gymnasium's lack of space necessitates a Ministers decreed that the original gymnasium campus is teachers and parents realized that in order to instill patrio- continual shifting of students to available classrooms. to be vacated by present occupants and returned to the tism and moral values in their youth, they would need to History, for example, is taught in the chemistry room. gymnasium's use by July 1, 1998. "resurrect" their gymnasium. However, lack of proper Space is but one problem for the gymnasium. Though With these initial developments, the first steps have facilities and dire economic conditions in the country quite dedicated, the gymnasium's teachers have had to go been taken on the road toward restoring Rohatyn's prized made the survival of the fledgling school even more chal- without pay, at times for several months. In addition, institution to the place of honor in educational excellence lenging. many subjects lack basic instructional materials: physics that its original founders had dreamt for it- to the benefit 6178687916 Fortunately. through the donation of a substantial sum students have no workbooks or equipment to do any of Ukrainian children for generations to come. of money, the dream of a former "native son" to enable his experiments. The chemistry section is so ill-equipped that alma mater to experience a renaissance that would benefit even the few experiments that are carried out violate safety The Sabre Foundation Inc., founded in 1969, works to the young people of Rohatyn for years to come is becom- rules, endangering the health of students and teachers. The build free institutions and to examine the ideals that sus- ing a reality. For his gift to be wisely administered, help- cramped library, made up largely of donated books, has tain them. Its largest current project makes millions of dol- ing hands were required. not begun to meet actual needs. lars' worth of donated new books available to needy indi- Former Rohatynites - the late Otch Kudryk, Iwan Book needs are the most pressing. Last year 20 percent viduals in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Oleksyn, Ostap Shenkiryk and Ireney Prokopovych - vol- of the textbooks were obtained through the old Soviet dis- 02/17/1998 10:18 other developing regions through non-governmental part- unteered to become trustees of the generous benefactor's tribution system, and in the coming year even this will be ner organizations, libraries, universities, schools, research gymnasium fund. eliminated. The gymnasium has had to rent books from organizations and other similar institutions. In its newest In turn, the board of trustees sought out further assis- other schools in order to meet demands. Students will now initiative, Library and Information Technology Services, tance: Rebecca Schneider of the Sabre Foundation, a non- have to purchase-thein books, whose cost is estimated at Sabre helps organizations in these regions take advantage profit organization in Cambridge, Mass., and the largest $55 (U.S. dollars) per student- far more than many peo- of rapidly evolving Internet and related information tech- donor in the U.S. of educational materials to Eastern ple's monthly salary. nologies. Sabre also sponsors domestic and international Europe and the former Soviet Union. Ms. Schneider visit- Not surprisingly. Ms. Schneider concluded that even a symposia and philosophical publications exploring the ed Rohaytn in May 1997 to conduct a needs assessment of small infusion of money and materials could improve the nature and accountability of free institutions. the gymnasium's computer facilities, library collection students' situations and raise morale among faculty and For more information see Sabre's World Wide Web THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON May 20, 1998 John A. Voli 64 Pearl Street Middletown CT 06457 Dear John, Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I am glad to hear that you enjoyed your White House experience, and I know you will value it over the years as well. Thank you for all your hard work. Best wishes in all you do. Stay in touch with us. Sincerely, Me Melanne Verveer Chief of Staff to the First Lady May 20, 1998 John A. Voli 64 Pearl Street Middletown CT 06457 and / know you will value Dear John, me your Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I am glad to hear fraine that you enjoyed your experience here Thank you for all your work. while House is over me Best wishes in all you do. stay in truel with us: years, well as Sincerely, Melanne Verveer Chief of Staff to the First Lady hard 05/20/98 860/341-8253 JAV LeT: after 08/98) melanne, 202/822-6009, (DC) [email protected] although we were not able to get to know each ather, my inperience as an intern in the affire 1th Furt Lady was very positive. Cerelyone there was hind and impressive. if ll can ever be of any service to you, please do not heretate to contant me. Sincerely, John A. Voli 64 PeaRL SJ, PM s 002 of ALWAY USA 32 middletoun, CT 21 MAY 89 1998 06457 R USE ZIP COOLGE melanne VeRVeeR office of The First Lady OEOB 100 The White House washington, DC 20500 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a publication. Publications have not been scanned in their entirety for the purpose of digitization. To see the full publication please search online or visit the Clinton Presidential Library's Research Room. OS - 1998 Season 20 (ines) RON PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Eos ORCHESTRA Artistic Director, Jonathan Sheffer 1998-99 SEASON Bernstein: The Harvard Years - January 1999 (Benefit Event) Richard Stoltzman, clarinet 6:00 PM Symposium and chamber performance: Eos will present two rarely performed student works, Piano Trio and Four Studies for Woodwind Quartet, framed by a symposium exploring Bernstein's Harvard years. 7:00 PM Cocktail Reception: Meet The Artists 8:00 PM Concert: The Eos Orchestra presents the first performance since 1939 of Bernstein's incidental music to Aristophanes's The Birds, written while he was a student at Harvard. First performed in Greek, Eos will offer Bernstein's original score accompanied by English narration from the play. Soloist Richard Stoltzman will join the Eos Orchestra to perform the jazzy Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, plus the New York premiere of the Clarinet Sonata of 1941, orchestrated by Sid Ramin. "Out There" Music - March 1999 This concert features the world premiere of David Del Tredici's A Tale of Possession, a vampire monodrama for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra with text by the poet Alfred Corn. Other "out there" works include unknown arrangements by the late Spike Jones of his inimitable suites, including unique versions of Carmen and Scheherazade ("A Goose To The Ballet Russe"). Also, Eos will perform Lygeti's Mysteries of the Macabre, a work for trumpet and small orchestra excerpted from his opera. John Corigliano's Red Violin - April 1999 Eos will give the world premiere of a new suite from the upcoming film The Red Violin. The suite will include music from the soundtrack and vividly energetic cadenzas for solo violin. Other works on the program include Bartok's Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Five 10-Minute Operas - June 1999 The season concludes with a theatrical presentation of five short operas. Eos will present staged performances of A Hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber; Introductions and Goodbyes by Lukas Foss; Notre Dame des Fleurs by Peter Maxwell Davies; Camera Obscura by Jonathan Sheffer; and the world premiere of a new work by Adam Guettel. Concerts will be held at the Society for Ethical Culture Auditorium, 2 West 64th Street and will be conducted by Jonathan Sheffer. A subscription for preferred seating for all four concerts is $95. Call the Eos Office at 212-691-6415. 161 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 902, New York, NY 10013 Tel. 212-691-6415 Fax 212-691-6648 E-mail [email protected] Literally: Bernstein EOS Orchestra Photo: Susesch Bayat EOS Orchestra Literally: Bernstein An Evening of Music Inspired by Leonard Bernstein's Life-long Fascination with Famous Texts The Eos Orchestra Jonathan Sheffer, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin Philip Cutlip, baritone Angelina Réaux, mezzo-soprano Richard Bernstein, bass Works by Leonard Bernstein Serenade Excerpts from "Songfest" World Premiere Concert "Dybbuk" Performance of the Ballet Thursday, July 23 8:30 PM Alice Tully Hall Tickets: $35. Call West 65th Street at Broadway, Open Monday Saturday from 10 AM to 6 CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 or visit the Box Office at Avery Fisher Hall, PM and Sunday from Noon to 8 PM. JULY 26 LINCOLN CENTER 1 FESTIVAL 98 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION