Recital Series
Rushes Ensemble
October 23, 2015
Board of Officers Room
With one of the most unorthodox ensembles imaginable, New York City-based Michael Gordon, composer and founder of the iconic Bang on a Can collective, offers a sonic meditation for seven bassoons in its New York City premiere. Best known for music driven by rhythmic intensity and power, Gordon explores interweaving textures and the timbre of a surplus of double reeds to form a steadily pulsating, unbroken wall of woodwind sound.
New York Premiere
Performances
Friday, October 23 at 8:00pm
Program
All-Michael Gordon Program
Rushes
“Even within the classical-music world … an ensemble of seven bassoons is a conspicuous novelty. [Rushes] makes one wonder what took so long.”
The Boston Globe
Gallery
Support
The Recital Series is supported in part by a generous grant from Gwen Norton on behalf of the IKBS, and by The Reed Foundation.
The Recital Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Also in the Series
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Alina Ibragimova
With a recent five-star performance at Wigmore Hall of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, violinist Alina Ibragimova revisits these cherished works in in an all-Bach program in the beloved Board of Officers Room.
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Recital Series
Lindemann Young Artists
Hear three of the next generation of opera greats from the program — soprano Christine Price, tenor Andrew Stenson, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel — in an intimate evening of song in the Board of Officers Room.
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Recital Series
Ian Bostridge & Wenwen Du
British tenor Ian Bostridge presents an artfully curated program of songs exploring the music and poetry of the Great War, including works by soldier composer George Butterworth and Britten’s setting of poems about children in wartime.
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Recital Series
The Night Dances
Acclaimed actor Charlotte Rampling and renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton bring together Sylvia Plath’s haunting poetry and Benjamin Britten’s powerful music for the US premiere of The Night Dances, an intimate melding of artistic voices.
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Recital Series
David Fray
French pianist David Fray harnesses the delicacy and richness of color in his playing to interpret three Schubert sonatas in the Board of Officers Room.
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Recital Series
Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber
After inaugurating the reopening of the Board of Officers Room in 2013, baritone Christian Gerhaher returns with his longstanding recital partner Gerold Huber for a program that highlights the Viennese peak of the art song tradition.