NEC Centennial Celebration of Earle Brown & Morton Feldman + Callithumpian Consort

About this event

NEC faculty Stephen Drury created the Callithumpian Consort in the belief that new music should be an exciting adventure shared by performers and listeners alike, and that the brand-new masterpieces of our day are beautiful, sensuous, challenging, delightful, provocative, and a unique joy. Callithumpian’s repertoire is the new and unusual, encompassing a huge stylistic spectrum from the classics of the last 100 years to works of the avant-garde and experimental jazz and rock. It is grounded in the musical discoveries of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Zorn, Giacinto Scelsi, Morton Feldman, and Iannis Xenakis.

The Earle Brown/Morton Feldman Centennial Celebration at New England Conservatory was made possible in part by a generous contribution from the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust. ARTIST(S) Enchanted Circle presents the Callithumpian Consort Stephen Drury, artistic director

Shion Suzuki, flute Gleb Kanasevich, bass clarinet Wesley Hopper, trombone Lilit Hartunian, violin Stephen Marotto, cello Benedict Koh, double bass Jeff Means, percussion, Mike Williams percussion Jeff Platz, electric guitar Isabella McCormick, harp Benjamin Katz, harpsichord Stephen Drury, piano, conductor Kyuree Kim, piano William Drury, conductor

PROGRAM

Morton Feldman: For Aaron Copland Earle Brown: Nine Rarebits Earle Brown: Three Pieces for Piano (1951) Earle Brown: Times Five Christian Wolff: Moraei (premiere) --commissioned in part by Jeffrey Duryea and the Callithumpian Consort

intermission

Morton Feldman: Bass Clarinet and Percussion Earle Brown: selections from Folio II Earle Brown: Available Forms I

From New England Conservatory