Bard SummerScape is presenting the New Albion Festival, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Foster Reed’s record label known as the “voice of West Coast new music,” at the Spiegeltent from this Friday until Sunday, August 10.
The New Albion story is a great one, told well here by Alex Ross and here by Steve Smith.
The nine programs feature works by John Adams, John Cage, Henry Cowell, The Deep Listening Band, Paul Dresher, Morton Feldman, Ellen Fullman, Kyle Gann, Ge Gan-ru, Peter Garland, Erik Griswold, Lou Harrison, Erdem Helvacioglu, Daniel Lentz, Ingram Marshall, Jeffrey Roden, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Somei Satoh, Stefano Scodanibbio, Stephen Scott, Carl Stone, Richard Teitelbaum, Stephen Vitiello, Miguel Frasconi, Virgil Thomson, Slow Six, and Evan Ziporyn. Details here.
Anybody attend any of these concerts yet?
What! No midsummer (8/6) twilight performance of John Adams’s
Early New Albion masterpiece “Light Over Water”?
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Fantastic programming, and very thoughtful post, Jerry.
Thank you.