In a society where music often exists simultaneously as a document – for example a score or recording – and as a potential live performance, the performing artist is confronted with a question:  what are the unique offerings of live performance? Tonight’s concert offers five pieces and their diverse answers to this question.

Moving from the physical manifestation of sound to the emotional motivation behind it, the full realization of these works is only available in the moments they are exchanged between the performer and audience.  A case for live performance is made not with the risk for failure or presentation of the performer as hero, but with compositional ideas that live fully only within the moment of performance.

Program:

Helmut Lachenmann's Pression

Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons

Martin Bresnick's Songs of the Mouse People

Jay Mikelman's It rains when you're here and it rain's when you're gone

Jackson Mac Low's Asymmetries 94 and 409

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