SPECTRUM XXI International Festival of Spectral Music October 12, 2009

DUMITRESCU / AVRAM - “RETROSPECTIVE”: Music for solo instruments

DUMITRESCU: “METAMORPHOSES ” (1967) for clarinet solo (Rane MOORE) / “DIACHRONIES (II)” (1967) for piano (Anthony CHEUNG) / AVRAM : ”QUATRE ETUDES D’OMBRE” (1992) for bass flute (Alice TEYSSIER) (w.p.) / DUMITRESCU : “MULTIPLES (VII) - a new rhythmic project for percussion” (1972) with Alex LIPOWSKI, Gustavo AGUILAR, Petru TEODORESCU/ AVRAM: “PENUMBRA” (2002) (w.p.) for bass clarinet / DUMITRESCU: “NUCLEAR AURA” ( 2009) for clarinet (w.p.) (Rane MOORE ) / DUMITRESCU: “MOVEMUR (II)” for cello (1978) / AVRAM : “AXE” (1998) for cello (David REQUIRO)
AVRAM: “QUINCONCE” (2002) for viola and electronics / DUMITRESCU: “FÜR ELIZE(BETH)” (2009) for viola (w.p) (Elizabeth WEISSER) / DUMITRESCU: “SOUND SCULPTURE (II) ” (1964-2009) for piano (w.p.) (Anthony CHEUNG) / AVRAM: “TELESMA VII” (2009) (w.p.)
for 3 percussion players and electronics (AGUILAR-LIPOWSKI-TEODORESCU)

Tuesday, October 13 at 7.30 pm @ “ The Warehouse”
BERGERSEN STRING QUARTET
DUMITRESCU: “Memorial/Alternances” (1968) / AVRAM : “Swarms (III)” (1992-2009) (w.p.) / DUMITRESCU: “SPECTRUM” (2008)

HYPERION Ensemble, BERGERSEN String Quartet, TALEA Ensemble
conductors: Iancu DUMITRESCU, Ana-Maria AVRAM

Petru TEODORESCU: “Super Novae (II)” for ensemble and computer sounds (w.p.)/ Costin CAZABAN: “Pax Vobiscum” for ensemble and computer sounds / Mario DIAZ DE LEON: “Gost War” for percussion and tape (w.p.) (Alex LIPOWSKI) / Ana-Maria AVRAM: “Hylé (II)” for viola, ensemble and electronics (w.p.) (Elizabeth WEISSER) / Iancu DUMITRESCU: “Le Silence d’Or” for ensemble and electronics

Thursday, October 15 at 7.30 pm @ “The Warehouse”

DUMITRESCU : “ RETROSPECTIVE”: Electronic music”
“Soleil Explosant”, “Implosive Eternity”, “Oiseaux Céléstes”

Hyperion Ensemble, Bergersen String Quartet, Talea Ensemble
conductors: Iancu DUMITRESCU, Ana-Maria AVRAM, Tim HODGKINSON

Tim HODGKINSON: “ICI-BAS” for ensemble (2009) (w.p.) Ana-Maria AVRAM : “TEXTURES V” for 2 bass clarinets and ensemble (2009) (w.p.) (T. HODGKINSON, R. MOORE) / Iancu DUMITRESCU: “INFINITY (II)” (w.p.) for bass clarinet and ensemble (Tim HODGKINSON)

“Spectral music is not an epiphenomenon, an accident, an odd eccentric
on the musical map, deprived of any consequences, but a vast ocean,
fed by numerous rivers and brooks increasingly vigorous. Besides,
spectralism comes in Romania from a natural language, at an
anthropological level, directly connected to the very acoustic base
of the sound.” Harry Halbreich

“These Romanians are engaged in a similar kind of sonic research to
that which resulted on the masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio
Morricone: collective endeavour, genuine "deep listening". The results
are similarly overpowering, a million miles from the tooting
inconsequence or most of what passes for New Music in the classical
world." Ben Watson

“Dumitrescu's work is a negation, from the depths, of everything in
contemporary music symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of
a radical loss of purpose." Tim Hodgkinson

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