NYNME: Boulez at 100, Celebrating His Legacy

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation welcomes the New York New Music Ensemble for the second installment of their 5th annual residency series at 87 Eldridge Street. Please join us on Monday, March 10th, at 7pm for a celebration of Pierre Boulez.

BOULEZ AT 100: CELEBRATING HIS LEGACY

This year is the centenary of Pierre Boulez, a unique artist who transformed our music world in myriad ways. Two very different Boulez works reveal disparate styles and periods in his creative output. The early Sonatine (1946) for flute and piano revels in serial complexity and muscular virtuosity; Derive I (1984), one of a series of works where the composer reworks and re-imagines fragments from earlier pieces, deals with ornamentation and contemplative stasis. Jeffrey Mumford’s a garden of flourishing paths is a lithe and lyrical tribute to his teacher Elliott Carter. The concert concludes with James Wood’s, Crying Bird, Echoing Star-a work that explores the composer lifelong fascination with birdsong and astronomy.

Program:
Pierre Boulez – Derive I (1984)
Jeffrey Mumford – a garden of flourishing paths (2008)
Pierre Boulez – Sonatine (1946)
James Wood – Crying Bird, Echoing Star (2001)

Ensemble:
Daniel Druckman, percussion
Emi Ferguson, flute
Chris Finckel, cello
Stephen Gosling, piano
Karen Kim, violin
Adrián Sandí, clarinet *
Eduardo Leandro, conductor

*Guest Artist

Artwork by Richard Hennessy