S.E.M. Ensemble in NY Reviewed

A recent performance of this new music ensemble grabs a review:

In an alternate universe where the avant-garde works of the 1950s and ’60s found a huge and enthusiastic audience, the program Petr Kotik conducted on Monday at Zankel Hall might have been a pops concert.

Three of the six works — Stefan Wolpe’s “Chamber Piece No. 1” (1964), Earle Brown’s “Available Forms I” (1961) and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Zeitmasse” (1956) — are classics of their kind, with a place in any serious history of contemporary composition. Yet they are rarely encountered, even on the new-music circuit.