Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its third annual week of Essential Repertoire at ISSUE Project Room, an adoration and exploration of the experimental tradition in classical music, named “one of the most significant presentations of the season” by Time Out New York.
Featuring Luciano Berio’s first ten Sequenzas (12/1, various soloists); Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge, Kontakte, and Mikrophonie (12/2, iKtus Percussion Quartet + Guests); Christian Wolff’s, For 1, 2 or 3 People, Petr Kotik’s Kontrabandt, and John Cage’s Concert for Piano & Orchestra (12/3, S.E.M. Ensemble); and Tom Johnson’s An Hour for Piano with the “Knee Plays” from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach (12/4, soloists Joseph Kubera & Mary Rowell).
Wednesday, December 1
Luciano Berio: Sequenzas I – X (1958 – 1984)
Claire Chase (flute), Shelley Burgon (harp), Daisy Press (voice), Stephen Gosling (piano), Chris McIntyre (trombone) John Pickford Richards (viola), James Austin Smith (oboe), Jennifer Choi (violin), Joshua Rubin (clarinet), Gareth Flowers (trumpet)
Thursday, December 2
Karlheinz Stockhausen:
Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56)
Four-channel version prepared by the Computer Music Center, Columbia University
Kontakte (1958-60)
Denise Fillion (piano), Chris Graham (percussion), Levy Lorenzo (electronics)
Mikrophonie (1964-65)
Iktus Percussion Quartet with Levy Lorenzo and Elad Shniderman (electronics) (Pre-concert lecture by Stockhausen on his approach to electronic music, recorded 1960.)
Special Thanks to Terry Pender and the Computer Music Center, Columbia University
Friday, December 3
John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958)
Christian Wolff: For 1, 2, or 3 People (1964)
Petr Kotik: Kontrabandt (1967)
Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Petr Kotik director: Joseph Kubera, Chris Nappi, Pauline Kim, Dan Peck, William Lang, Greg Hesselink, & G. Douglas Barrett
Saturday, December 4
Tom Johnson: An Hour For Piano (1971)
Joseph Kubera (piano)
Philip Glass: Knee Plays from Einstein on the Beach (1976)
Mary Rowell (violin, arrangement), Geoff Burleson and Joseph Kubera (organs), Eve Beglarian and Ekmeles vocal ensemble, Jeffrey Gavett, director (voices)
