Music

Music In Time

Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston

Music of Wolfgang Rihm
Saturday, May 29, 5:00pm
The composer of the opera Proserpina is known for a vast body of instrumental work that explores and expands the palette and aesthetics of contemporary music. Rihm views his work as fluid, sometimes modifying and transforming “finished” works over time. This program featured a rare performance of his blazing and intense Chiffre-Zyklus.

Music of Neely Bruce
Wednesday, June 2, 5:00pm
Neely Bruce, the conductor of the Spoleto production of Flora, an Opera, is a prolific composer whose music spans the stylistic spectrum from interpretations of Americana to post-minimalism. This program included the world premiere of Three Sonnets of Eileen Albrizio, a tribute to New Orleans composer Louis Chauvin and his Heliotrope Bouquet, and parts of Bruce’s Music for Dancing. Performers included members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and singer Zachary Stains.

Christian Wolff on Merce Cunningham
Sunday, June 6, 5:00pm
One of the most unheralded composers of our time, Christian Wolff’s music explores the social,physical and spatial relationship of musical events. His tribute to Merce Cunningham, Merce, bears remarkable analogy to the process and grace of Cunningham’s choreography.

Brooklyn Rider
Tuesday, June 8, 5:00pm
Thursday, June 10, 9:00pm
Brooklyn Rider is a genre-defying string quartet that explores and mixes both the standard repertoire and the cross-disciplinary new music being created today. The four members have individually been long associated with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and formed the quartet to pioneer new paths in the possibility of post-classical music. On June 8, Rider offered a program illuminating Debussy’s influence on contemporary composition, showcasing Debussy’s String Quartet Op. 10, and Philip Glass’s rarely performed String Quartet No. 4. On June 10, the group performed a late-night program by composers including Giovanni Sollima, Colin Jacobsen, John Cage, Ljova, and Cafe Tacuba, and other signature works from Brooklyn Rider’s repertoire.

Music in Time series director John Kennedy’s participation is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.