Darmstadt Essential Rep: Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen December 2, 2010

Pre-concert recorded lecture (from 1960) by Stockhausen on his approach to electronic music. Program includes:

Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56) feat. a four-channel version prepared by the Computer Music Center, Columbia University

Kontakte (1958-60) feat. Denise Fillion (piano), Chris Graham (percussion), and Levy Lorenzo (electronics)

Mikrophonie (1964-65) feat. the Iktus Percussion Quartet with Levy Lorenzo and Elad Shniderman (electronics)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization.

One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular-music artists. His works, composed over a period of nearly 60 years, eschew traditional forms. In addition to electronic music both with and without live performers they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments, songs, chamber music, choral and orchestral music, to a cycle of seven full-length operas.

Special Thanks to Terry Pender and the Computer Music Center, Columbia University.

Darmstadt Essential Repertoire is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.

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