When George Crumb’s music hit main stages in the early 1970s, he was proclaimed “the savior of music.”
In an era in which proponents of atonal, abstract music dismissed all who couldn’t understand it, Crumb’s luminous humanity appealed to those who longed for an emotional, visceral experience in contemporary music.
Chamber Music Society pays tribute to Crumb with two probing programs which reveal the composer in all his kaleidoscopic creativity. Featured in this CMS mini-festival is pianist Gilbert Kalish, whose definitive interpretations helped fuel Crumb’s meteoric rise.
PART 1
Program includes
American Songbook III: Unto the Hills for Soprano, Amplified Piano, and Four Percussionists (2002)
Kronos-Kryptos for Percussion Quintet (CMS Co-Commission, World Premiere) (2018)
PART 2
Program includes:
The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I) for Voice, Guitar, and Percussion (2008)
Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) for Electric String Quartet (1970)
Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion (1974)
