March 29, 7:30pm
JACK highlights the intimate history of a friendship between Pierre Boulez and John Cage 100 years following Boulez’ birth. His string quartet Livre pour quatuor was finished just as he began an intimate correspondence with John Cage, whose own String Quartet in Four Parts was written at this time.
My own piece, Escape Rites, responds to some of their concerns at this time, creating sound aggregates from a 25-tone scale, which is serialized to create micro and macro level details of the work, as well as each note of the scale being rhythmically “locked” in its place in an over or undertone series of polyrhythms and tied to a characteristic extended technique.
Program:
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor
Eva-Maria Houben, Nothing more
Anton Webern, Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, op. 9
John Cage, String Quartet in Four Parts
Austin Wulliman, Escape Rites
Anthony Cheung, Twice Removed