7 in 3
02.16.20 / 4:00pm
Charles Curtis
Free concert; no tickets necessary. No late entry.
In celebration of his new career-spanning album, Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, released by Saltern, renowned cellist Charles Curtis presents a marathon day of performances surveying more than two decades of work. Curtis has established a reputation as one of new music’s foremost cellists, having collaborated with the likes of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue, Christian Wolff, Alison Knowles and Los Angeles’ very own Tashi Wada. The rigor and astute sensitivity Curtis brings to the work of these composers actually betrays his immersion in late Medieval and Renaissance music, examples of which will be performed. In a sequence of three extended programs stretching from late afternoon until night entitled 7 in 3, Curtis will perform two of his own compositions, as well as Éliane Radigue’s hour-long Naldjorlak (2005), Chansons and Ricercars of Guillaume de Machaut and Sylvestro di Ganassi, Alvin Lucier’s epic Slices for Cello and Pre-Recorded Music (2007), Alison Knowles’ Rice and Beans for Charles Curtis (2008), and a rare performance of Richard Maxfield’s Perspectives for La Monte Young (1961-62). This event is not to be missed.
Program
I.
4:00 PM
Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (2005)
II.
7:00 PM
Guillaume de Machaut & Sylvestro di Ganassi – Chansons (14th century) & Ricercars (1542)
Charles Curtis – Unfinished Song (1998)
Alvin Lucier – Slices for Cello and Pre-Recorded Orchestra (2007)
III.
8:30 PM
Charles Curtis – Ultra White Violet Light (1996)
Alison Knowles – Rice and Beans for Charles Curtis (2008)
Richard Maxfield – Perspectives for La Monte Young (1961-62)