Monday Evening Concerts: American Originals January 12, 2009

MORTON FELDMAN: Viola in My Life II
ALVIN CURRAN: Schtyx (L.A. premiere)
FREDERIC RZEWSKI: 96 (L.A. premiere)
FREDERIC RZEWSKI: Pocket Symphony (L.A. premiere)

XTET:
Donald Crockett, conductor
Vicki Ray, piano
David Johnson, percussion
Movses Pogossian, violin
Sarah Thornblade, violin
Kazi Pitelka, viola
Roger Lebow, cello
Phil O’Connor, clarinet
Gary Woodward, flute

"Schtyx are charts, bones, professions, shades, numbers, glues, hypes, acts, devils, organgrindings, wood implements, jugglers, chance operations, performance art, the Yiddish underground," writes composer Alvin Curran. His wonderfully irreverent and lyrical music blends an array of compositional practices into a singular musical language. Two recent chamber works by Curran’s longtime friend Frederic Rzewski—a 4-minute canon dedicated to Elliott Carter, and the witty and improvisatory Pocket Symphony—share the program with Feldman’s hypnotic Viola in My Life II.

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