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Charlemagne Palestine
Jun 19, 2006: 8pm- 11pm
Williams Hall, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue | Boston, MA
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Free.
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.
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.