JACK Quartet performs Feldman, Cage, Brown, and Webern June 5, 2011

The JACK Quartet - called “brilliant” by Alex Ross - plays a program titled “IT STARTED ON EIGHTH STREET” dedicated to Feldman and his trailblazing compositional associates in early-1950s New York City. John Cage’s gorgeous String Quartet in Four Parts, Earle Brown’s open-form String Quartet, and Feldman’s first brief essay in the genre, Structures for string quartet, are played alongside Webern’s microscopic Bagatelles, which anticipate the pointillistic textures of Feldman’s music by nearly half a century. Crane Arts, a leading site for avant-garde visual art and music, brings to mind Feldman’s close associations with both worlds in his own time.

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