[nec]shivaree: Wolff and Feldman

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. Christian Wolff | Duo for Violins (1950)

    Artists
    • Aidan Ip and Felicitas Schiffner, violin
  2. Christian Wolff | Duet I (1960)

    Artists
    • Kyuree Kim and Lihyeon Kim, piano
  3. Morton Feldman | The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar (1966)

    reconstruction by Brooks Clarke

    Artists
    • Brooks Clarke, guitar
  4. Christian Wolff | Another Possibility (2004)

    Artists
    • Grant Beale, guitar
  5. Christian Wolff | Exercise 26 (Snare Drum Peace March) (1988)

    Artists
    • Stephanie Krichena, percussion
  6. INTERMISSION

  7. Christian Wolff | Exercise 27 (2nd Snare Drum Peace March) (1988)

    Artists
    • Stephanie Krichena, percussion
  8. Christian Wolff | Small Duos for Violinists (2021)

    Artists
    • Aidan Ip, Felicitas Schiffner, and Jordan Hadrill, violin
  9. Christian Wolff | Hands & Others (2014)

    Artists
    • Rachel Brake, French honr
    • Eddy Lanois, trumpet
    • Shannon Ross and Kei Otake, cello
    • Jesse Dale, double bass
    • Pauline Pu, Sandy Hsu-Ssuan Li, and Solomon Ge, piano
    • Yi Yao and Monstar Cao, percussion
    • Xiaoyu Frank Sang and Tamir Shimshoni, voice