2005-2006 Concert Season

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.

October 7-8, 2005        

SONGS — WITH AND WITHOUT WORDS
FRED HERSCH, piano

 

December 2-3, 2005        

 SNAPSHOTS AND LEGACIES:
THE MUSIC OF JOHN CORIGLIANO
 MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE, ensemble

 

May 12-13, 2006        

 GIANT PIPES AND FLOWER POTS:           
MUSIC IN THE BIRCH GARDEN
 SO PERCUSSION, ensemble
TROLLSTILT, ensemble

 

SONGS — WITH AND WITHOUT WORDS
Fred Hersch, piano
October 7 & 8, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall
 Post-Concert Talk 

“Few jazz pianists have ever struck as beguiling a balance between 
technique, feeling, insight and imagination...” (Ed Hazell, Jazziz)

Widely recognized for his ability to reinvent the standard jazz repertoire, pianist and composer Fred Hersch is steadfastly creating his own unique body of work that speaks to the gradual erasure of boundaries between the jazz and classical music traditions. Described by The New Yorker as “a poet of a pianist,” Hersch offers a program of works by Thelonius Monk and Cole Porter, and includes his own compositions. A post-concert discussion illuminates aspects of the improvisatory art and explores the connections between the jazz and classical music traditions. 

 

SNAPSHOTS AND LEGACIES:
THE MUSIC OF JOHN CORIGLIANO
MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE, ensemble
December 2 & 3, 2005 at 8:00 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall

 

Photo  by Trish Lewis 
“...bracing and beguiling, incisive and exciting.” (New York Times) 

Music From Copland House, the acclaimed resident ensemble at Copland’s longtime, landmark New York home, performs the music of Academy Award®- and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Corigliano, and music of composers who influenced him, Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland. Works on the program include: Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Poems of Bob Dylan for soprano and piano; Soliloquy for clarinet and string quartet; Snapshot: Circa 1909 for string quartet; Copland’s Sextet for clarinet, piano and string quartet; and Stravinsky’s Concertino for string quartet. 

Music from Copland House artists Derek Bermel, clarinet; Michael Boriskin, piano; and Wilhelmina Smith, cello are joined by guest artists Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano; Curtis Macomber and Jesse Mills, violins; and Hsin-Yun Huang, viola.

Pre-concert Talk, Saturday, December 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall                

Music from Copland House ensemble members speak with Jon Magnussen about the music on the program.
RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION
Past, Present and Future: John Corigliano speaks with 
Michael Boriskin and Jon Magnussen.
Friday, December 2, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.
in the West Building Lecture Hall

Internationally celebrated as a leading composer of his generation, John Corigliano has won global acclaim for his highly expressive and compelling compositions in orchestral, chamber, opera and film music.


Photo by Christian Steiner

GIANT PIPES AND FLOWERPOTS:
MUSIC IN THE BIRCH GARDEN
So Percussion and Trollstilt
May 13, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Garden

 
Hailed as “brilliant...consistently impressive” (New York Times), So Percussion performs David Lang’s meditative masterpiece, The So-Called Laws of Nature, and joins Trollstilt (Dan Trueman--Hardanger and electric fiddles; Monica Mugan--classical guitar) for Dan Trueman’s compelling electronic chamber work, Five (and-a-half) Gardens.

CONCERT TALK

May 12, 2006
12:30 p.m. in the Dilworth Room

The musicians of So Percussion and Trollstilt speak with Jon Magnussen about their music and the technology they utilize in performance. Tickets are not required.

  
RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION
A Redefined Music: David Lang speaks with Jon Magnussen
Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.
in the Birch Garden