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Ensemble Sospeso: Morton Feldman's "For Christian Wolff"
Ensemble Sospeso (Nicholas DeMaison and Amelia Lukas) plays Morton Feldman's three-hour duo for flute and keyboards, For Christian Wolff. An "extended waking dream," For Christian Wolff is generally regarded as the most austere of Feldman's late works, fantastically quiet, full of pitches and yet somehow never quite emerging from a perpetual state of almost-being. The audience is invited to come and go at leisure throughout the evening.
After a four-year hiatus from the New York concert scene, Ensemble Sospeso returns to present Morton Feldman's three-hour-long duo for flute and keyboards, For Christian Wolff. The concert on December 8, 2011 at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room will inaugurate Sospeso's 2011-2012 season.
An "extended waking dream," written and premiered in 1986, For Christian Wolff is scored for keyboards and flute, which will be played here by Nicholas DeMaison, the group's new Artistic Director, and flutist Amelia Lukas. Generally regarded as the most austere of Feldman's late works, For Christian Wolff is described by DeMaison as "fantastically quiet, full of pitches and yet somehow never quite emerging from a perpetual state of almost-being.
The performance will last approximately 180 minutes without pause, and the audience will be invited to come and go at leisure throughout the evening.
About Ensemble Sospeso
Since its Carnegie Hall debut in 1998, Ensemble Sospeso's performances have been described as "stunning" (The New York Times), "a wonder to watch" (The Wall Street Journal) and "gorgeously rich" (The Village Voice). The group has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall's Making Music series (under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen), and at venues including Alice Tully Hall (with Pierre Boulez in a critically acclaimed retrospective of his work), Zankel Hall, Whitney Museum of American Art, Weill Recital Hall and Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
About the Performers
Artistic Director Nicholas DeMaison is a highly regarded interpreter of new music and contemporary opera. A Composer and conductor, he also serves as Music Supervisor for the critically acclaimed production company Giants Are Small, which received national acclaim for their stagings of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen with the New York Philharmonic. (For the latter, the Philharmonic commissioned DeMaison to contribute an original electronic soundscape for Avery Fisher Hall.) He has conducted premieres and led recording projects of new pieces by over forty living composers, and was founding Music Director of Chicago's Opera Cabal, called "Chicago's most daring opera company" (Chicago Magazine). DeMaison's own music has been described as "emotionally provocative" (Time Out NY) and "faster and blippierboth ominous and playful at the same time" (Lucid Culture). This season he will direct new productions of Milhaud's Le Pauvre ...
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LocationISSUE Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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