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Alarm Will Sound in The Kitchen

Oct. 01, 2006

On October 20 and 21 the unconventional young music group Alarm Will Sound will perform at The Kitchen in New York City. With programs traditionally pitting music as seemingly disparate as Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin and Wolfgang Rihm against each other, Alarm Will Sound presents another concert of surprising juxtapositions. The concert begins with arrangements of three of the rhythmically challenging and playful Player Piano Studies of Conlon Nancarrow, and features György Ligeti's Piano Concerto No. 1 before stepping back several hundred years to showcase arrangements of a series of French and Russian motets. After ranging across nearly 500 years of music history, the concert concludes a bit closer to the present with Harrison Birtwistle's 1977 work Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, a piece inspired by Paul Klee's Twittering Birds.

Our two cents says you are bound to hear something new to your ears.

For more information on Alarm Will Sound, visit their website at www.alarmwillsound.com.

For more about Conlon Nancarrow's life and works, please visit www.schott-music.com. For more about György Ligeti's life and works, please visit www.schott-music.com. For more about Harrison Birtwistle's life and works, please visit www.universaledition.com.

For more information about The Kitchen, please visit www.thekitchen.org

N.B. More of the late master composer György Ligeti’s music will be on display in October, as the New York Philharmonic performs his Lontano October 26–28. The Hungarian composer passed away in June of 2006.

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