Friday, May 8 at 6:30pm
1 East 42nd Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10017
“Contemporary music is not the music of the future nor the music of the past but simply music present with us: the moment, now, this moment.”
An evening concert – FREE admission, reception to follow – of following works:
Yu-Chun Chien: Co-Composition
Cellist, Calvin Chan
John Cage: Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Piano, Adrián Blanco
Yu-Chun Chien: Decomposition
Piano, Adrián Blanco and Yu-Chun Chien
Henry Cowell: The Banshee
Piano, Adrián Blanco
Pedal, Yu-Chun Chien
Yu-Chun Chien: To the Convergence
Piano, Yu-Chun Chien
J. S. Bach: Contrapunctus V from Die Kunst der Fuge
Piano, Hsi-Wen Hui
Yu-Chun Chien: Orchestration of J. S. Bach’s Contrapunctus V from Die Kunst der Fuge, for piano quintet
Players, Ming-Yuan Chuang, Er-Hsuan Li, Pin-Chun Liu, Wei-Ting Lo, Hsi-Wen Hui
Helmut Lachenmann: Guero
Piano, Adrián Blanco
Yu-Chun Chien: Marvels; Endless
Violinist, Chang-En Lu
Also,
Poem-reading: Every Day is a Beautiful Day
Anne Goldberg
Text-reading: Excerpt of Cage’s Composition as Process, III. Communication
Text-reading: Excerpt of Lachenmann’s The Beautiful in Music Today
Alex Burtzos
Singing: above performers along with Ya-Lan Chan, Yi-Hsun Tang, Tzu-Ting Tsai