Monday Evening Concerts: The Avant Garde Through the Ages December 8, 2008

MICHAEL MAIERHOF: Sugar 1 (West Coast premiere)
JOHANNES CICONIA, MATTEO DA PERUGIA, JACOB SENLECHES, SOLAGE, JOHANNES SYMONIS, JEAN VAILLANT: Selected works from the late 14th century
VINKO GLOBOKAR: Dialog über Luft (U.S. premiere)
KEIKO HARADA: Bone # (U.S. premiere)
JOHANN J. FROBERGER: Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche
LUCIANO BERIO: Sequenza XIII (Chanson) (L.A. premiere)

Amy Knoles, piano
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cello
Eric KM Clark, violin
Shira Kammen, vielle
Susan Feldman, vielle
Phoebe Jevtovic Alexander, soprano
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Kuniko Kato, percussion
Movses Pogossian, violin

The season explodes open with Michael Maierhof’s visionary trio, a work which provoked one critic to write, "After Sugar 1, Xenakis will sound like Mozart." In a program jumping backward and forward through eight centuries, late Medieval songs and a Baroque masterpiece converse with today’s new music, as M.E.C. introduces Los Angeles to accordion wizard Teodoro Anzellotti and the concentrated musical poetry of emerging Japanese composer Keiko Harada.

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