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4/22/2005
Boston--Pianist Stephen Drury will mix it up in a FREE faculty recital that juxtaposes music from many periods and styles, Wednesday May 4 at 8 p.m. in New England Conservatory�s Jordan Hall. A musician of wide-ranging tastes, Drury will play Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales, Beethoven's Eroica Variations, and works by Ligeti, Lachenmann, Feldman, and Cage. As a kind of summary, he will conclude with John Zorn�s Carny, a phantasmagoria of musical quotations and references that was composed for Drury and two other pianists, Yvar Mikhashoff, and Anthony deMare under a grant from Meet the Composer.
A long time champion of Zorn, Drury has written about Carny in Perspectives of New Music: ��Carny cannibalizes mouthfuls of previously existing piano music. In turn, the introduction to Carny cannibalizes the rest of the piece� Each fragment -- quote, genre reference, or abstract -- affects the way we hear what follows and what came before. Previously unimaginable connections appear between Mozart and bebop. Stockhausen negates Fats Waller� Brief chunks of music by composers from Mozart to Boulez appear note for note or under various degrees of transformation. (Chopin and Schoenberg, for example are quoted in reverse; Stockhausen is overlaid with Bartok; and a left hand passage from Elliott Carter�s Night Fantasies is paired with an entirely new right hand part.)�Phrases referring more generally to genres appear (a little New Orleans funk, some boogie-woogie, a bit of cocktail piano). And there are entirely original passages which have no outside source.
�Carny accelerates and hesitates in broad yet unpredictable outlines� now coming to points of near stasis, now revving up gradually, now scurrying off; now erupting in a frenzy. And what is the listener to make of the nuclear holocaust that occurs just before the coda�? What light does it cast on the preceding furious pile-up of Liszt, Carter, Nancarrow, cartoon music, Ives, and Art Tatum? Are we now paying dearly for the previous fun and games? Or is this apocalyptic climax just another cartoon mushroom cloud?�
�Ultimately, is there or can there be a justification within the artwork itself for all these references and quotations? I dunno. Art is always ahead of theory.�
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes�thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC�s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of �From the Top,� a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by more than two hundred stations throughout the United States.
posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
4/22/2005 10:44:00 AM
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