Darmstadt presents: Essential Repertoire
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” music series is proud to announce its first-ever multi-performance curation at ISSUE Project Room from October 22 through the 26th. Entitled “Essential Repertoire,” its six performances are an initial attempt to accumulate a unique and expanding collection of cherished experimental music: from the New York School through the Minimalists, European approaches, and a number of electronic practices, alongside music’s connectivity to art, performance, and multimedia. Darmstadt’s curators encourage vivid interpretations of their favorite avant-garde works from the city’s liveliest composers and musicians.
Friday, 24 October 2008
Either/Or ensemble: Early Minimalism
Either/Or
Anthony Burr - clarinet, organ
Richard Carrick - piano, organ
Jennifer Choi - violin, organ
David Shively - percussion
Alex Waterman - cello, organ, percussion
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion (1973)
Steve Reich: Four Organs (1970)
Rhys Chatham: Two Gongs (1971)
Recently praised by the New York Times as a “new and first-rate new music ensemble,” Either/Or is a chamber ensemble based in New York City, directed by pianist/composer Richard Carrick and percussionist David Shively. Either/Or draws on a pool of collaborating musicians, all of whom are active soloists in the field of new and experimental music. This mobile structure allows Either/Or to present works ranging from soloists to chamber ensembles and beyond, including unconventional formations and works with electronics. Either/Or has performed at New York’s leading venues for experimental music, including The Kitchen, MATA Festival, The Stone, the Goethe Institut, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and others. Members of Either/Or have worked closely with American composers such as Robert Ashley, Anthony Coleman, Alvin Lucier, Elliott Sharp, and John Zorn, and the ensemble has presented New York premieres of works by Karlheinz Essl, Georg Friedrich Haas, György Kurtàg, Helmut Lachenmann, Thomas Meadowcroft, and many other artists.
Either/Or is a not-for-profit corporation registered in New York State and is supported by private sponsors as well as by grants from BMI Foundation, Eiler Foundation, Landecker Foundation, Meet the Composer, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and other organizations
http://www.eitherormusic.org/