Jacob Druckman, Earl Kim and Mario Davidovsky are guest composers.
Miss Valente will also take the solo part in Earl Kim's evocative "Where Grief Slumbers."
Mr. Schulte was at his best in Earl Kim's Caprices (1980), a set of short but vital character pieces.
On the program are works by Brahms, Charles Ives, Elliott Carter and Earl Kim.
Following post-graduate work at Princeton with Roger Sessions and Earl Kim, he spent four years in Korea (1964-68) doing research on Korean court music.
Earl Kim, the superintendent of the Verona school district, decried the vindictive talk on the Star-Ledger's site.
As a composer and a teacher of composers, Earl Kim espoused a principle so simple it should have seemed obvious.
Earl Kim (1920-1998) was a Korean-American composer.
Anthony Brandt, liner notes to "Earl Kim" (New World Records, 2001)
The program also included the New York premiere of a delightful fantasy by Earl Kim, "The Seventh Dream" (1986).