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Klangforum Wien Performs Stockhausen, Feldman, Furrer, Schoenberg at Alice Tully Hall; Red Light New Music Presents Further Performances of Feldman and Furrer at the Chelsea Art Museum

Apr. 01, 2009

Klangforum Wien performs Free Radicals at Alice Tully Hall on April 4, 2009, a program including over a dozen short contemporary works paired with films by Man Ray, Maya Deren, and other 20th-and 21st-century filmmakers. The program, which premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2007, is produced in cooperation with Austrian film company Amour Fou Film and Luxembourgian film company Minotaurus Film. In this unique pairing of avant-garde contemporary works of music with films, both created specifically for this project and culled from the 20th-century, Klangforum Wien presents all of the artists' works in a new light. Featured among these pairings are works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Arnold Schoenberg, and Beat Furrer. Filmmaker Bady Minck writes:

The second film Das Sein und das Nichts (Being and Nothingness) corresponds to Beat Furrer's piece, Ein Lied, das über das Ende des Liedes hinaus ein anderes Ende finden wollte (A song that aimed to find another ending beyond the end of the song). This film makes the generation of music visible, music is poured into pictures: What you see is what you hear. The film shows the dominance of music over the body, its presence and its disappearance. Conductor Beat Furrer appears as the tamer of time and the master of silence. The individual musicians are only visible in the extremely brief moments in which they play, with their bodies representing the notes on a visualized score. The progressive deconstruction of the music is accompanied visually by a deconstructed image.

New York's own Red Light New Music series also pairs Morton Feldman and Beat Furrer in a concert on April 10th at 7pm in the Chelsea Art Museum. Like Klangforum Wien's program, this concert pairs these two composers with film, this time also by Luxembourgian filmmaker Bady Minck, a founding member of Amour Fou Film and Minotaurus Film. Red Light's program features Furrer's a due and Feldman's The Viola in My Life. Soloists include Natacha Diels, flute; Yegor Shevtsov, piano; David Broome, piano; and Erin Wright, viola.

For precise ticketing and concert information for Red Light New Music, visit www.redlightnewmusic.org.

Learn more on the work of Bady Minck at www.badyminck.com.

For more information on Karlheinz Stockhausen, visit www.universaledition.com.

More information on Morton Feldman can be found at www.universaledition.com.

Visit www.schott-music.com and www.universaledition.com for more information on Arnold Schoenberg.

Learn more on Beat Furrer at www.baerenreiter.com and www.universaledition.com.

Morton Feldman
Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety (1970)
for small ensemble
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4'

Morton Feldman
The Viola in My Life 3 (1970)
for viola and piano
6'

Beat Furrer
Ein Lied, das über das Ende des Liedes hinaus ein anderes Ende finden wollte (2000)
for ensemble
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3'

Beat Furrer
a due (1997)
for viola and piano
18'

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Nr. 28 Dr. K-Sextett (1969)
for flute, bass clarinet, percussion (tubular bells and vibraphone), piano, viola and violoncello
3'

Arnold Schoenberg
Drei Stücke für Kammerensemble (1910)
for chamber orchestra
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