Concert: NachBach
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 5PM
Jonathan Godfrey (2011 Winning Composition) // Maarten Stragier, and others
Fenway Center
$15 Advanced Purchase Online
$20 At the door (cash or check)
$10 Student
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Jonathan Godfrey, guitar
Sonatina for guitar solo
Jonathan Godfrey
- Un poco marcato
- Free, like wind chimes
- Rather swiftly
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Maarten Stragier, guitar
Alexander Dunn, guitar
Robert Hanson, guitar
Colin Thurmond, guitar
with the Callithumpian Consort
Contrapunctus XIV (unfinished) from Die Kunst der Fuge
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Rane Moore, clarinet
Colin Thurmond, guitar
Nick Tolle, vibraphone
Michael Unterman, cello
Waltz
Frank Zappa
Alex Dunn, guitar
Shard (1997)
Elliott Carter (b. 1908)
Canon (1996)
Alvin Lucier (b. 1931)
Rane Moore, clarinet
Nick Tolle, vibraphone
Maarten Stragier, guitar
Elaine Rombola, piano
Michael Unterman, cello
Tony d’Amico, double bass
Music in Fifths (1969)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Rane Moore, clarinet
Elaine Rombola, piano
Michael Unterman, cello
Robert Hanson, guitar
Maarten Stragier, guitar
Colin Thurmond, guitar
This afternoon’s program can best be described as a wild game of free association around Bach’s “unfinished” Contrapunctus XIV from Die Kunst der Fuge. Whether this fugue was actually unfinished at Bach’s death or its continuation merely lost along with so many other compositions of Bach’s remains a cause for musicological debate. Bach famously left no directions whatsoever for instrumentation of this late extraordinary work. Like his great predecessor the famous american centenarian Elliott Carter delights in the exploration of contrapuntal possibilities. Like Die Kunst der Fuge, Shard dates from the later years of his career. The fugue’s economy of material and experimental gusto are pushed to the extreme in Alvin Lucier’s Canon—which also shares an imitative texture—and Philip Glass’ Music in Fifths. We are honored to collaborate for the first time with the eminent contemporary ensemble Callithumpian Consort (Artistic Director, Stephan Drury).
The Callithumpian Consort is based at New England Conservatory and was founded by Stephen Drury sometime in the 1990s. Dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience, the Consort has performed music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi, Ivan Tcherepnin, Iannis Xenakis, Lee Hyla, David Shea, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Paul Elwood, John Heiss, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, Lukas Foss, and others. Their recordings are on Tzadik and Mode Records.
