Bringing Weird Music to Fort Worth

An article discusses how Herb Levy brings new and strange acts to his area.

Levy has already introduced Fort Worth to the likes of solo vocalist and contemporary composer Jaap Blonk and performance artist Rinde Eckert. Last month, he brought to town Ellen Fullman, who plays a 300-foot-long string instrument. This weekend, Levy will inaugurate a series of contemporary music concerts at Van Cliburn Recital Hall. Called Other Arts, the series begins with a concert by pianist Louis Goldstein performing pieces by 20th-century innovator Morton Feldman. The next day, Goldstein plays works by Feldman contemporary John Cage. Two more concerts will take place in spring, one with electronic composer Carl Stone, and the other with the Wayne Horvitz Gravitas String Quartet, which fuses structured compositions and improvised jazz.