[Leonard-Stage] Fwd: Charlemagne Palestine Monday, June 19th, 2006

[Neil Leonard]

Monday, June 19th, 2006.  8pm.  FREE!

Non-Event Presents:

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - rare US appearance!

Williams Hall, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue, Boston
617.585.1101
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

One of the last remaining mavericks of American experimental music,  
Charlemagne Palestine has not played in Boston for decades, if ever,  
so, to have this pioneer of minimalist drone music playing a FREE  
concert on TWO pianos at Williams Hall in New England Conservatory is  
something of a miracle.

A contemporary of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich,  
Palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s, intended by  
the composer to challenge audiences’ expectations of what is  
beautiful and meaningful in music. A composer-performer, he has  
always performed his own works as soloist, creating dense clouds of  
shifting harmonics over long durations, most often performing on the  
piano and frequently surrounded by emblematic objects, including  
stuffed animals and scarves - what he terms "symbols of  
identification."   In addition to music, Palestine has created  
pioneering work in the fields of intermedia and video art.

For this concert, Palestine will be performing his piece, "The Golden  
Mean" for two pianos.  This work can be downloaded at http:// 
www.seventhings.co.uk/en/downloads/index.php where there is also a  
fascinating audio profile available for free.

This concert is co-presented by the Summer Institute for Contemporary  
Performance Practice - http://www.sicpp.org.

Upcoming:
Tuesday, July 11th :: Tetuzi Akiyama :: The Center for Advanced  
Visual Study at MIT

Non-Event programs are funded in part by the LEF Foundation -http:// 
www.lef-foundation.org.


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