ARBOUR III: Strange Autumn

15 November 2019 | 8pm

Open Space | Victoria, BC

Liam Hockley, bass clarinet/reciter | Max Murray, tuba/piano/percussion

György Kurtág: An... from Hölderlin Gesänge, op. 35a

Evan Johnson: Rückenfigur for tuba

i. rassegnato/privato

          ii. eco distratto—“rassegnato/privato”

iii. marginale/privato

iv. spettrale come catastrofico (marginale/privato)

György Kurtág: In Memoriam András Mihály from Játékok

Ana-Maria Avram: Penumbra

Michelle Lou: Telegrams

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Strange Autumn

Fragmentary utterance: a transcription of the first of Kurtág’s terse Hölderlin Gesänge and Evan Johnson’s opaque instrumental setting of an excerpt of the Wyclyffe Bible — the jagged landscape of Ana-Maria Avram opening onto Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s Strange Autumn: a grotesque theatrical epitaph to the conventions of musical expression.