Music festival features free nightly concerts
Monday, February 11, 2013
Music festival features free nightly concerts
The second annual Festival of Contemporary Music at OSU runs Tuesday through Thursday this week with free nightly concerts starting at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts. Different groups and pieces will be featured each day including the Frontier New Music Ensemble on Tuesday, Forrest Pierce and the Cortona Sessions on Wednesday and The Contemporary Cello on Thursday.
Music featured for the nightly concerts:
Tuesday, 2/12, 8 p.m.: Frontiers New Music Ensemble performs one of the most important works of the 20th Century, “Pierrot Lunaire” by Arnold Schoenberg, as well as works by Bresnick, Karaca, Carter, and Jacob Ter Veldhuis.
Wednesday, 2/13, 8 p.m.: Guest Artists from the Cortona Sessions for New Music perform music by Forrest Pierce, David Rakowski, and Cortona Sessions Composition Fellows
Thursday, 2/14, 8 p.m.: Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello; Mary Fukushima, flute; Michael Kirkendoll,piano - Performing George Crumb's “Vox Balaenae” (Voice of the Whale) plus works by Xenakis, Messiaen, Du Yun, and Nicholas Omiccioli