Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival 2016
Morton Feldman
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March 31-April 3, 2016
Studio Z: 275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, St. Paul $15 / $10 students & seniors |
Zeitgeist’s 6th Annual Early Music Festival explores the powerful contributions of our musical pioneers with a celebration of composer Morton Feldman. One of the 20th century’s great visionaries, Feldman’s innovations in music notation and his free-flowing indeterminate music embraced new artistic possibilities and made a lasting impact that continues to shape new music today.
As a group of musicians dedicated to the music of our time, Zeitgeist knows the most meaningful expressions of today are informed by the musical contributions of yesterday. The annual Early Music Festival honors that artistic debt with performances of influential and rarely-heard works by 20th century masters. Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Piano Solo The King of Denmark Bass Clarinet and Percussion The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar Friday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. The King of Denmark Bass Clarinet and Percussion Voices and Cello The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar Saturday, April 2, 4:30 p.m. Clarinet and String Quartet Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. For Stefan Wolpe Only Voices and Cello Sunday, April 3, 2 p.m. Crippled Symmetry Guest performers include: Joshua Weinberg, flute; Tracey Engleman, soprano; KrisAnne Weiss, mezzo-soprano, Charles Asch, cello; the First Readings Project; James Garlick, violin; Jill Olson-Moser, violin; David Auerbach, viola; Kirsten Whitson, cello. A major figure in 20th-century music, Morton Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also begin to explore extremes of duration.
Tickets can be securely purchased by credit card or through your PayPal account in advance, or by cash, check, or credit card at the door. Tickets purchased online will be held at the door.
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