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Collide-O-Scope Music + Adam Tendler

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Start:
December 13, 2013 8:00 pm
Cost:
15/10

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Augustus Arnone: Piano, Adam Tendler: Piano, Marianne GythFeldt: Clarinet, Greg Kowalski: video, Lou Bunk: Electronics

Tickets are $15/$10 for Students

“Are We Together?”

“in other words, you would go to a concert and you would hear these people playing without a conductor, hmm? And you would see this group of individuals and you would wonder how in hell are they able to stay together? And you would realize that they were really together, rather than because of music made to be together. In other words, … all the things that they were sounding were together, and that each one was coming from each one separately, and they were all together.”

— John Cage

Collide-O-Scope Music, led by Artistic Directors Lou Bunk and Augustus Arnone, opens its Fifth Season with a multi-media concert production featuring music by John Cage, Michael Finnissy, and the world premiere of a new work by Lou Bunk, as well as original video art by Gregory Kowalski. The program features two classic John Cage works from the late 1950′s, Radio Music (1956) and Winter Music (1957). Both works proceed from an initial static collection, consisting of, respectively, frequency tunings and a collection of vertical harmonies, which are then combined spontaneously by an indeterminate group of players and with no prescription for durations of individuals events or segments.

The simultaneous presentation of asynchronous materials is arguably the most fundamental defining feature of Cage’s output over the course of his entire career, and represents a much larger thread that is ever-present in music after the middle of the twentieth century, as in the other works on the program. Michael Finnissy’s Le réveil de l’intraitable réalité (1999), is the second Chapter in his massive eleven movement solo piano cycle The History Of Photography In Sound. This work, like all the movements in the cycle, presents a swirling montage of fragments and quotations, juxtaposed in the context of an intricate polyphonic texture where multiple streams simultaneously asserting contradictory metrical orientations is constant.

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Adam Tendler has been called “an exuberantly expressive pianist” who “vividly displayed his enthusiasm for every phrase,” and Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun once wrote, “If they gave medals for musical bravery, dexterity and perseverance, Adam Tendler would earn them all.” Joining Collide-O-Scope Music in this split bill double concert, Tendler will perform an exciting slate of solo piano works spanning several decades.  His genre-defying program includes Glass’s severe and exhilarating Two Pages (1968), Robert Palmer’s beautifully complex Three Preludes (1941), and the New York premieres of Anthony Porter’s inside-the-piano tone poem, The Slow Melt and Luciano Chessa’s haunting work for video and piano, Tomboy, which explores themes of lesbian disenfranchisement and empowerment through sound, text, and visuals.

 

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