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December 11th, 2007 | 7:30 pm Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall The CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, NYC Let Rocks Their Silence Break | Casey Hale Brian Lindgren, viola Allison Lander, piano Shannon Zakarison, percussion Peter Wise, percussion I wrote Let Rocks Their Silence Break in 2006. The piece arose from my frustration with the political climate of the preceding years, and the dissociative routine of daily life in a time of violence and crisis. The title is taken from the third verse of the hymn My Country, 'Tis of Thee, originally the tune of God Save the Queen. This tune formed a frame of reference for the piece, evoking as it does two generations, so to speak, of Anglo-American imperialism Casey Hale is a composer and guitarist. He received his MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Margaret Brouwer and Zhou Long, and his BA from Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower. He has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Igni Vox Productions, and the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and has had additional premieres by the American Symphony Orchestra and the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program from the American Composers Forum, and has been a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Lee Hyla, and at the Brevard Music Center with John Beall. As an instrumentalist, he has performed repertoire from the 15th century to the present, playing guitar and lute as a soloist and with ensembles both small and large, including an appearance with the American Symphony Orchestra. He is currently living in New York, where he studies with Tania León while pursuing his doctoral candidacy at the CUNY Graduate Center. return to PAST CONCERTS