In 2003-2004, the Institute for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence Program launched Recent Pasts 20/21, a four-year initiative of chamber music concerts and lectures. Hosted by Institute Artist-in-Residence, composer Jon Magnussen, the series is designed to explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in western art music of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
This year's series features nationally and internationally known artists with performances by Bruce Brubaker, piano; Judith Bettina, soprano, with James Goldsworthy, piano; Blair McMillen, piano; and the New York-based ensemble, Continuum®. Speakers in the series include composers Milton Babbitt, Philip Glass, Andrew Imbrie, Paul Lansky and pianist/scholar Joel Sachs. Each Institute concert series includes a concert talk with the musicians hosted by Magnussen.
Tickets are free for these popular concerts, and the Institute makes
available as many tickets as possible for distribution beyond the
Institute community. For ticket information, please call (609) 734-8228 or email 
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October 15-16, 2004 |
PIANOMORPHOSIS |
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December 2-4, 2004 |
A
PRINCETON CONNECTION JUDITH BETTINA, soprano and JAMES GOLDSWORTHY, piano BLAIR MCMILLEN, piano PAUL LANSKY, composer MILTON BABBITT and ANDREW IMBRIE, composers |
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February 25-26, 2005 |
MUSIC
OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS CONTINUUM®, ensemble JOEL SACHS, conductor/scholar |
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RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION Hearing and Seeing: Philip Glass speaks with Bruce Brubaker and Jon Magnussen October 15, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall |
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| Composer
Philip Glass' repertoire ranges from opera,
dance, theater, orchestra and film. Lauded for Einstein
on the Beach and Music in Twelve Parts, Glass is also
renown for the scores for Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi
and the Academy Award nominated films The Hours, directed
by Stephen Daldry and Kundun, directed by Martin
Scorsese. Premieres in 2003 include the opera The Sound
of a Voice with libretto by David Henry Hwang, the score to
Errol Morris' new film The Fog of War, and the CD release
of Etudes for Piano Vol. I, No. 1-10 on the Orange
Mountain Music label. Glass recently premiered Orion,
a new work for ensemble and world musicians commissioned by the
Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004 at the Acropolis in Athens,
Greece. |
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A PRINCETON CONNECTION
A Princeton Connection celebrates the richness and
diversity in the work of composers associated with this town by
attempting the impossible: to present a representative spectrum
of Princeton-associated music spanning three-quarters of a
century. Including music from Roger Sessions (On the
Beach at Fontana), through the 1960s heyday of the
Columbia-Princeton Music Center, and further, to today’s
younger generation of composers – and world premieres by Su
Lian Tan, David Rakowski, and the
late Edward T. Cone.
| PERSPECTIVES:
Milton Babbitt and Andrew Imbrie, composers December 3, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in West Building Lecture Hall |
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 Photo by Bayard Carlin |
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composers Milton Babbitt and Andrew Imbrie both studied with
Roger Sessions early in their careers, and have since influenced
a wide range of contemporary musicians, in many different areas,
over an extended period of time. They continue to make important
contributions to the musical world – one from the east coast
and the other from the west. |
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| RECENT
PASTS 20/21 LECTURE "The Musical World of the South Caucasus" JOEL SACHS, conductor/scholar February 25, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. in the West Building Lecture Hall |
 Photo by Hiroyuki Ito |
| Co-director of CONTINUUM® and founder and conductor of the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, Joel Sachs is one of the most active individuals on the New York contemporary music scene. His wide-ranging interests in the world of music has led to performances and residencies in regions including Central and South America, the Near East, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. | |
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