MEDIA CONTACT: Judy Moore at (847) 491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu

April 27, 2004

Eight Hours of Free Music

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University’s New Music Northwestern will present eight continuous hours of more than a dozen performances of contemporary composed and improvised music during the fifth annual New Music Marathon from 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 2.

The music will begin on the Evanston campus at 2 p.m. at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, and conclude at 10 p.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive. All of the events are free and open to the public.

The schedule of music events coordinated by artistic director Amy Williams and campus locations are as follows:

MARY AND LEIGH BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART

Print, Drawing and Photography Study Center, second floor:

2 p.m. Performance by flutist and composer Robert Dick

3 p.m. Solo works of Bernard Rands, Robert Dick, Kaija Saariaho and William Coble performed by Geoffrey Deibel, Molly Barth and Matt Albert

4 p.m. Pinotage will play works of Bernard Rands and Karim Al-Zand

James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati Auditorium, main floor:

2 p.m. Germany’s experimental ensemble Intégrales will play works of Burkhard Friedrich, Jennifer Walshe and Michael Maierhof

3 p.m. Elliott Sharp’s “The Velocity of Hue” for guitar and computer

4 p.m. Works of Amnon Wolman, performed by Molly Barth and Jennifer Walshe

5 p.m. Five instrumentalists will improvise music while video artist Charles Woodman controls live video during the “Sound and Image: An Improvisational Suite” performance

OUTSIDE ON PLAZA BETWEEN THE BLOCK MUSEUM AND PICK-STAIGER CONCERT HALL

5 p.m. Performance of Amnon Wolman’s “New (NU) Work”

PICK-STAIGER CONCERT HALL

Lobby

6 p.m. Elliott Sharp’s “approaching the arches of corti” and “Syndakit”

8 p.m. Quintet Attacca will play works of M. William Karlins, Roberto Sierra and Collin Anderson

Stage

7 p.m. Pianist Amy Dissanayake’s “Tango Project”

8 p.m. Performance by pianist Winston Choi and flutist Thomas Robertello

9 p.m. Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble will play works of Bernard Rands and Elliott Sharp and works of Amnon Wolman and Virgil Moorefield

Funding for New Music Marathon has been provided by the Northwestern University School of Music, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Kulturbehörde Hamburg, and Northwestern University’s Program for Studies in the Imagination and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.

For more information, call Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at (847) 491-5441.