The concert is Saturday (the 12th) at 8pm and it's in uptown Harrisburg at the Temple Ohev Sholom (it's on Front Street just below Seneca). And I'll be doing a pre-concert talk beginning at 7:15pm so please consider dropping in for that, too.For more information, check out these posts:
Part 1 - JACK comes to town
Part 2 - An introduction to three composers on the program: Philip Glass, Caleb Burhans and the Odd Man Out, Guillaume Machaut
Part 3 - An introduction to Iannis Xenakis but more a consideration of listening to unfamiliar (and especially new) music, going back to the days when Brahms and Mozart were "new" and "challenging."
By the way, I'm so excited - Elliott Carter's 103rd Birthday is on a Sunday this year! December 11th - mark your calendars, now! (Here's a post about last year's birthday.)
- Dick Strawser
Dick,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this inspiredly-enlightening leadup to the Jack Quartet performance. I got so much more out of it than I otherwise would have.
Will plan on checking in here from now on whenever I can. Was the performance as you had expected?
Thanks, Nancy -- actually, the performance was better than I'd expected! What an amazing ensemble! I was delighted with their performance and also delighted Harrisburg audiences took to the Xenakis enough to enjoy the performance even if they didn't care for the piece.
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