Event overview
PhD Student Paul Cassidy (piano) performs classics of 20th century American piano music.
Philip Glass: Music in Contrary Motion
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Alvin Curran: For Cornelius
Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
Rzweski studied with Luigi Dallapiccola, and began a career as a performer of new piano music, often with an improvisatory element. A few years later he was a co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum. Musica Elettronica Viva conceived music as a collective, collaborative process, with improvisation and live electronic instruments prominently featured. Many of Rzewski's works are inspired by secular and socio-historical themes, show a deep political conscience and feature improvisational elements.
Democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental, Curran travels in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, and makes music for every occasion with any sounding phenomena -- a volatile mix of lyricism and chaos, structure and indeterminacy, fog horns, fiddles and fiddle heads. He is dedicated to the restoration of dignity to the profession of making non-commercial music as part of a personal search for future social, political and spiritual forms.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Mar 2014 | 1:00pm - 1:45pm |
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