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SUMMARY:CONCERT | ARGENTO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE | MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2010
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM\nGeorg Friedrich Haas (performed by the Argento Chamber Ensemble) – ATTHIS Octet Version, no singer\nIn this piece, Haas sets to music Sappho’s ancient and poetic declaration of love for her lover Atthis. The work, orchestrated for clarinet, bassoon, horn, and string quintet, is romantic in it’s imagery, it’s sense of suffering for love, and anxiety over separation, but as Haas himself describes: “This is unique in my works because it ends happily.”\nSteven Takasugi – FLYPAPER – for electronic tape (7 minutes)\nGeorg Friedrich Haas (performed by the Argento Chamber Ensemble) – PHANTASIEN\n \nAustrian spectral composer Georg Friedrich Haas (* Graz, 1953) has been teaching counterpoint, contemporary composition techniques, analysis, and introduction to microtonal music at the Musikhochschule in Graz since 1978, first as university lecturer, later as professor. In 1997, he took a sabbatical to be able to dedicate himself completely to composing. Since 2005 Haas has taught composition classes at the Conservatory of Music of the City of Basel Music Academy.\nIt is the remarkable multifacetedness that makes Haas’ music so fascinating. His works are filled with a dramaturgy of sound that reveals itself to the listener very directly, and above all nonverbally. They attest to a penetration of profane life with what can only be referred to as a mystical power of sound, a unification of the pleasant and the rough, the exuberant and the ugly, in a world of sound where dissonance represents the measure of all things rather than consonance. Haas is convinced that “the various musical traditions are not looking for conformity with the proportions of the partial tone series, but rather are trying to depart from it.” It’s not about union, but dissonance, he says. According to Haas, abstract chord develops its own independent quality, says Haas, and therein lies the compositional conclusion (Lisa Farthofer, www.musicaustria.at).\nWorks by Haas were featured in the Moving Sounds Festival 2009, and the composer and his oeuvre were also part of the Spring 2009 ACFNY-Composer Series. Photo of Georg Friedrich Haas by Universal Edition AG.\nRelated article: “Disconcerting Perfection: Georg Friedrich Haas ( ../../index.html )”, by Bernhard Guenther, Transforum 4\nSteven Takasugi (* 1960 in Los Angeles) received his masters and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of California San Diego. His work has been performed throughout the world, at venues such as Ultraschall and MärzMusik/ Berlin, Symphony Space/New York, ICMC/ Thessaloniki, IRCAM/ Paris, Asia Music Week 2000/ Yokohama, Tempus Novum/ Tokyo and The Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. Takasugi has authored many articles, lectured extensively on New Music and aesthetics and teaches composition at Harvard University. Furthermore, Takasugi has taught at the University of California, San Diego, the California Institute of the Arts, the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and HaTeiva in Jaffa, Israel.\n\nThe Argento Chamber Ensemble is the performance arm of the Argento New Music Project. The ensemble performs compositions that embody pressing musical concerns in Western music. Consisting of nine core members, the ensemble regularly expands to perform and record chamber orchestra works of up to 30 musicians. They have toured widely in the US and abroad, in festivals including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the International Festival of Spectral Music/ Istanbul, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, the Sounds French Festival, the Kilkenny Arts Festival/ Ireland, and Shanghai´s International Festival of Electroacoustic Music. Argento has worked closely with leading composers such as Pierre Boulez, Tania Leon, Tristan Murail, Elliott Carter, Philippe Hurel, Gerard Pésson, Joshua Fineberg, and Philippe Leroux.\n \nVENUE\nACFNY\n
URL:https://acfny.org/event/concert-argento-chamber-ensemble-moving-sounds-festival-2010-2/
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