Morton Feldman at 101
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Schubert: Moment musicaux in A-flat Major, Op. 94, D. 780
Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Geneva Lewis, violin
Kyle Armbrust, viola
Jay Campbell, cello
Born in 1926, maverick composer Morton Feldman continued a legacy of avant-garde composers inspired by art, from Erik Satie to John Cage. Feldman responded to the abstract painting of his day by striving to create a music of stillness. In his final work of 1987, the classical form of piano quartet is transformed into a delicately sensitive reflection on memory. Magical harmonies and shifting patterns; dreamlike fragments that return and hover in the air. Music of contemplation.
American artist Terry Winters’s works on paper, starting with his early drawings from the 1980’s, are equally concerned with “non-narrative” art, and his explorations of repetition and variation create an illuminating dialogue with Feldman’s music.
Three outstanding string players join pianist Sarah Rothenberg, who opens the program with a Schubert Moment musical, paying homage to one of Feldman’s greatest inspirations from the past.
Presented in conjunction with the Menil Collection exhibition, Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry
Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Geneva Lewis, violin
Kyle Armbrust, viola
Jay Campbell, cello
Born in 1926, maverick composer Morton Feldman continued a legacy of avant-garde composers inspired by art, from Erik Satie to John Cage. Feldman responded to the abstract painting of his day by striving to create a music of stillness. In his final work of 1987, the classical form of piano quartet is transformed into a delicately sensitive reflection on memory. Magical harmonies and shifting patterns; dreamlike fragments that return and hover in the air. Music of contemplation.
American artist Terry Winters’s works on paper, starting with his early drawings from the 1980’s, are equally concerned with “non-narrative” art, and his explorations of repetition and variation create an illuminating dialogue with Feldman’s music.
Three outstanding string players join pianist Sarah Rothenberg, who opens the program with a Schubert Moment musical, paying homage to one of Feldman’s greatest inspirations from the past.
Presented in conjunction with the Menil Collection exhibition, Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry
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The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St,Houston, Texas, United States
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