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. |