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2/16/2006
Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
Public Relations Manager
New England Conservatory
617-585-1143
epfeifer@newenglandconservatory.edu
For Immediate Release:February 16, 2006
NEC's Enchanted Circle Concert Series Presents Iannis Xenakis�s Rarely Heard Kraanerg
Stephen Drury Conducts Radical Ballet Score March 7 in NEC�s Jordan Hall
�Imagine, in addition, the reports of dozens of machine guns and the whistle of bullets adding their punctuations to this total disorder. The crowd is then rapidly dispersed, and after sonic and visual hell follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust and death. The statistical laws of these events, separated from their political or moral context, are the same as those of the cicadas or the rain. They are the laws of the passage from complete order to total disorder in a continuous or explosive manner. They are stochastic laws�� --Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music, 1955
New England Conservatory�s Stephen Drury will conduct the Callithumpian Consort in Iannis Xenakis�s rarely heard, evening-length ballet score, Kraanerg, March 7 at 8 p.m. in NEC�s Jordan Hall. The Callithumpian Consort is a loose aggregation of NEC students, alumni, and new music enthusiasts that has performed locally, on the East Coast, and in Europe
Composed in 1969 for the opening of the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada, Kraanerg is an electro-acoustic work for small orchestra and tape (and, originally, dancers). The title means �Youth-Energy� and the work was inspired by the youth rebellions taking place in the late sixties and by Xenakis�s own experiences fighting in guerilla battles against the fascists in Greece.
Describing the work, online reviewer R. Hutchinson writes: �Over 74 minutes, "Kraanerg" alternates between live orchestral sections and electronic tape sections (of pre-recorded orchestral sounds)�The (live) music features rapid staccato outbursts from trumpets and trombones, woodwinds and strings, and glissandos -- the sound associated with Xenakis ever since his revolutionary Metastaseis. The tape sections utilize various levels of sound alteration -- some passages are slightly distorted, and others leave no trace of the original instruments. This results in a fascinating range of textures -- the mysterious sheets of electronic sounds at times sound like the shimmering aurora borealis. The overall effect of this stochastic, electro-acoustic music, undergoing continuous transformation, is like witnessing the awe-inspiring organic processes of nature majestically unfold.�
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 National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
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posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
2/16/2006 12:02:00 PM
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