STUDIO STAGE | Ensemble Uncaged | Essential Elements
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
If you squint, look, listen hard, can you see the Essential Elements? A student work by Pauline Oliveros, sounding nothing like the music she’s best known for, reveals where it all started. Alex Mincek takes microscopic fragments and through repetition and slight variation, spins them, little by little, Poco a Poco , into a stunning musical sculpture. Marti Epstein identifies the cardinal point of Bach’s #28th variation from his Goldberg Variations and creates her own, a sort of Variation2, while Kelley Sheehan’s Brain Zaps investigates the yet unknown source of this neurological phenomenon, testing the outer limits of our own understanding of our Essential Elements. Longy’s premier new music group, Ensemble Uncaged is dedicated to performing music by established composers as well as emerging and underrepresented voices, expressing multiple perspectives. We honor the familiar, invite the unknown, and challenge the conceptual limits of concert music in the 21st century. Studio Stage Series Studio Stage is your chance to experience the thrill of discovery. Here, emerging artists take the stage to share their ideas, test their creativity, and invite you into their artistic journey.…