Bold Experiment
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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 |
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| CRAWFORD SEEGER | Suite for wind quintet |
| MEREDITH MONK | Obsolete Objects, Totentanz, and Folkdance |
| EASTMAN | Buddha |
| DU YUN | The Ocean Within |
| CRUMB | Black Angels |
Special Thanks
Curtis’ Centennial Season is made possible through the support of Derek and Sissela Bok, the Mary Louise Curtis Bok Foundation, Deborah M. Fretz, Charles C. Freyer and Judith Durkin Freyer, Lisa and Gie Liem, Mark and Robin Rubenstein, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Mainstage productions were financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development.
Curtis Institute of Music receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Generous support for Curtis New Music Ensemble is provided by the Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation.
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- Date Feb 15, 2025
- Time 7:00 P.M.
- Location Curtis Institute of Music, Gould Rehearsal Hall
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