Program:

Chopin - Mazurkas, Op. 24

Schoenfield - Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

Françaix - Wind Quintet No. 1

Ben performs with the Curtis New Music Ensemble for the following program:

This exciting concert features musical and academic explorations of the 20th century, including works by Curtis alumni, inspired by the “Bold Experiment” initiated by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in 1924 when she opened a conservatory in Philadelphia. The program will feature late Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classical and avant-garde composer George Crumb’s foreboding “voyage of the soul,” Black Angels, for electric string quartet. Subtitled “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land,” this gripping piece, written during the Vietnam War, captures the horrors, anguish, and upheaval of the era and was conceived as a parable for a troubled contemporary world, as poignant then as it is now.

Program

VILLA-LOBOS Choros No. 2

CRAWFORD SEEGER Suite for wind quintet

MEREDITH MONK Folkdance and Ellis Island

EASTMAN Buddha

DU YUN The Ocean Within

CRUMB Black Angels