Stockhausen and Boulez at Darmstadt in 1962. Photo from The Guardian.
The Week Ahead: Nov. 28-Dec. 4
The New York Times, November 28, 2010
As plugged in this week's Arts & Leisure, the fine folks who bring you Darmstadt "Classics of the Avant-Garde" events sporadically throughout the year will open their third-annual Darmstadt Essential Repertoire festival at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on Wednesday. As always, despite the namesake allusion to modernist severity, the programming swings all over the place.
The series starts with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and other new-music luminaries playing Luciano Berio's first 10 Sequenzas. Thursday's program includes three seminal Karlheinz Stockhausen pieces: Gesange der Jünglinge, Kontakte and Mikrophonie. On Friday, Petr Kotik conducts the S.E.M. Ensemble in John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (with Joseph Kubera at the piano) and additional works by Christian Wolff and Kotik. Kubera returns for the final concert on Saturday, during which he'll play An Hour for Piano by Tom Johnson; sharing the bill is violinist Mary Rowell, who unveils her new arrangement of the "Knee Plays" from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. You'll find me at the first and last of these concerts; were it possible, I'd catch 'em all.
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