[nec]shivaree: Reich, Stockhausen, Feldman, Cardew

NEC: Williams Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

[nec]shivaree, the NEC Avant-Garde Ensemble directed by NEC faculty Stephen Drury, is the attack wing of NEC's new music program, performing the modern, the new, and the avant-garde. Sounds are provided by such composers as John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Giacinto Scelsi. The players of [nec]shivaree have worked with composers John Zorn, John Luther Adams, Christian Wolff, and Frederic Rzewski. The group gives concerts both inside and outside of the Conservatory, and has performed regularly at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge and Tonic and The Stone in New York.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live

  1. Steve Reich | Clapping Music (1972)

    Artists
    • Shannon Ross, Aidan Ip, hands
  2. Karlheinz Stockhausen | from Aus den sieben Tagen (1968)

    Richtige Dauern (Right Durations)
    Setz die Segel zur Sonne (Set Sail for the Sun)

    Artists
    • Rachel Brake, French horn
    • Edison Lanois, trumpet
    • Solomon Ge, piano
    • Frank Xiaoyu Sang, voice
    • Tamir Shimshoni, voice
    • Jessie Dale, double bass
  3. INTERMISSION

  4. Morton Feldman | Intermission 6 (1953)

    Artists
    • Charles Berofsky and Andrew Chen, piano
  5. Morton Feldman | Piano Four Hands (1958)

    Artists
    • Charles Berofsky and Andrew Chen, piano
  6. Cornelius Cardew | Treatise (1963-67)

    Artists
    • Jordan Hadrill, Rachel Yi, violin
    • Kei Otake, cello
    • Grant Beale, guitar
    • Yi Yao, Monstar Cao, percussion
    • Ling Zhou, Pauline Pu, Sandy Ssu-hsuan Li, piano