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

May 3, 2005

Eight Hours of Free Music at Northwestern Evanston Campus May 22

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University’s New Music Northwestern will present eight continuous hours of more than a dozen performances of composed and improvised contemporary music during the sixth annual “New Music Marathon,” from 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 22.

The music events will be held on the Evanston campus. They begin at 2 p.m. at the University’s 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 listed below are free and open to the public.

MARY AND LEIGH BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART

Print, Drawing and Photography Study Center, second floor:

2 to 2:50 p.m. Italian flutist Mario Caroli will perform Salvatore Sciarrino’s “Opera for Flute”

3 to 3:50 p.m. Performance by guitarist Seth Josel and saxophonist Masahito Sugihara

4 to 4:50 p.m. Northwestern marimba virtuoso Michael Burritt and the Chicago-based ensemble dal niente will perform Morton Feldman’s “Instruments III”

5 to 5:50 p.m. Music from France performed by flutist Mario Caroli and saxophonist Masahito Sugihara

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

2 to 2:50 p.m. Performance of works for instruments and electronics by School of Music faculty member Virgil Moorefield, Northwestern music students Jeffrey Weeter and Jonathon Kirk, Northwestern music technology student Mark Cartwright and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana graduate student Kyongmee Choi

3 to 3:50 p.m. Videos of actor James Dean will be juxtaposed with pieces by composer John Cage

4 to 4:50 p.m. Performance by bassist Robert Black

5 to 5:50 p.m. Performance by cellist Scott Kluksdahl

PICK-STAIGER CONCERT HALL

Pick-Staiger Stage:

6 to 6:50 p.m. ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) performs works by Iannis Xenakis

7 to 7:50 p.m. Works composed by David Lang performed by the ensemble “eighth blackbird” and the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble

8 to 8:50 p.m. ICE performs works by Northwestern University School of Music faculty members Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, Jason Eckardt, Jay Alan Yim and Stephen L. Syverud

Pick-Staiger Lobby: 9 to 9:50 p.m. Marathon Improvisation featuring more than a dozen performers

Northwestern University School of Music faculty member Amy Williams coordinated the 2005 New Music Marathon.

Funding for “New Music Marathon” has been provided by the Northwestern University School of Music (Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean), Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Northwestern University’s French Interdisciplinary Group and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.

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