PAST SEASONS
AN EVENING WITH NEW YORKER MUSIC CRITIC ALEX ROSS
November 2, 2010
Alex Ross returns to the Evolution Series to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Listen To This. Ross is the author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2007 and a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His new book ranges "from Bach to Bjork and beyond" in an effort to "approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere but as a way of knowing the world."
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION
December 6, 2010
Evolution presents composer David Lang’s Bach-inspired recasting of Hans Christian Andersen’s haunting parable, featuring vocalists Elizabeth Hungerford, Kristen Dubenion-Smith, Lee Mills and Michael Droettboom, with musical direction by Judah Adashi. Tim Page of the Washington Post, a member of the jury that awarded Lang’s piece the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music, writes: “I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a new, and largely unheralded composition as I was by David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion, which is unlike any music I know.”
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
February 8, 2011
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music,” the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) makes its Baltimore debut on the Evolution Series with music by Marcos Balter, Elliott Carter, Mario Diaz de León and Steve Reich, and world premieres by Phyllis Chen and Du Yun.
THE MUSIC OF DEREK BERMEL
March 8, 2011
The New York-based composer-clarinetist joins the Evolution Series for an evening devoted to his solo and chamber works: Turning for solo piano, Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet, Twin Trio for flute, clarinet and piano and Soul Garden for string sextet. In addition to Bermel, featured performers include pianists Stephen Gosling and Lura Johnson, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and solo violist Victoria Chiang, as well as violinists Jennifer Herrera and Kathryn Kilian, violist Jaclyn Dorr, and cellists Jill Collier and Peter Kibbe. As the Boston Globe puts it, “this is the kind of [music] that makes your day.”
