The perpetually groundbreaking Kronos Quartet welcomes a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of guest artists and ensembles to celebrate its 50th anniversary at Carnegie Hall, including a preview performance of Michael Gordon’s gfedcba, which receives its world premiere in March by the Kronos Quartet at Cal Performances in Berkeley.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Yo Shakespeare performed by Carnegie Hall American Soundscapes Festival
New York, NY
Kronos Quartet gives preview of ‘gfedcba’ at Carnegie Hall for their 50th Anniversary
All Vows (2006, rev. 2014) 9'
solo cello
Carnegie Hall Corporation
Travel Guide to Nicaragua (2022) 70'
for solo cello and 24 voice choir
solo cello, SATB
Carnegie Hall, Penn Live Arts
Travel Guide to Nicaragua is premiered by The Crossing and cellist Maya Beiser
On November 16 in Philadelphia at Congregation Rudolph Shalom and November 17 at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, The Crossing and cellist Maya Beiser (Donald Nally, conductor) premiere Michael Gordon’s new work Travel Guide to Nicaragua. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, Travel Guide to Nicaragua is written for The Crossing and cellist Maya Beiser, with projections by Laurie Olinder and lighting by Eric Southern…
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When a Critic Hosts the Premiere
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Zachary Woolfe
February 14, 2020
“Please silence your cellphones.”
There are few phrases I hear more often in my life as a music critic. But it was strange — like a child playing dress-up — to speak the sentence myself, and in the incongruous setting of my own living room on a rainy evening earlier this week…
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A Composer Reconstructs Painful Family Stories
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…melodies played with virtuosity by Beiser served as Gordon’s own response to his family’s stories, bridging those complicated and often painful chronicles with arcing and achingly emotional replies.
A Jewish Family Mystery at Carnegie Hall
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In this moving and intricate piece, music becomes a powerful medium that can not only fill in the gaps left by the inadequacies of language but also expressively mirror them…
Biography
Michael Gordon’s music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker‘s Alex Ross, “the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism.”
Over the past 30 years, Gordon has produced a strikingly diverse body of work, ranging from large-scale pieces for high-energy ensembles to major orchestral commissions to works conceived specifically for the recording studio…
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