Edgard Varèse – Past Concerts

Edgard Varèse — Octandre
William Grant Still — Mother and Child
Charles Ives — The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Charles Ives — Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)
Sang Song — Hoarding Behaviors (world premiere)

Edgard Varèse — Ionisation
Amadeo Roldán — Ritmicas
James Tenney — Selected works
Gabriela Lena Frank — Selected works
Nicholas Hubbell — Selected works
Edgard Varèse — Ionisation

Edgard Varèse — Density 21.5 (for flute solo)
Felipe Lara — Meditation and Calligraphy (for solo bass flute)
Felipe Lara — Parábolas na Caverna (for solo flute)
Marcos Balter — Pessoa (for 6 bass flutes)
Mario Diaz de Leon — Luciform (for flute & electronics)
Du Yun — An Empty Garlic (for bass flute & electronics)
George Lewis — Emergent (for flute & electronics)

Edgard Varèse – Poème électronique
Francis Dhomont – Novars
Richard Karpen – The Other

Bohuslav Martinů – Sonata for Flute and Piano, H. 306
Sergei Prokofiev – Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 for piano
Edgard Varèse – Density 21.5 for solo flute

Edgard Varèse – Poème Électronique
Steve Reich – Vermont Counterpoint
Nina C. Young – Spero Lucem
Kaley Lane Eaton – New work (world premiere)
Mary Kouyoumdjian – Sedna, Beneath the Sea
Mason Bates – White Lies for Lomax
Derek Bermel – Nine Revolutions (world premiere)

Yiheng Yvonne Wu – Violent Tender
Edgard Varèse – Ionisation
Philip Schuessler – The Glass Abattoir

Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
Varèse – Octandre
Sondheim – "No More" from Into the Woods
Yang – TBA (premiere)
Copland – Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments

Witness a true virtuoso, trained by inventor Léon Theremin himself, work her wizardry on an electronic instrument that sings and swoops without any physical contact.

Edgard Varèse – Tuning Up
Charles Ives – Orchestral Set No. 2
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Derek Bermel – Elixir
John Adams – My Father Knew Charles Ives
Duke Ellington – Harlem

Edgard Varèse – Octandre (1923)
Julia Wolfe – Singing in the dead of night (2008)
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life I (1970)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia – From Darkness to Luminosity (2015) – World premiere

John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
Varèse: Déserts
Debussy: La Mer ("The Sea")

Flutist Claire Chase, "the young star of the modern flute" (The New Yorker) and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, celebrates the release of her third solo album, "DENSITY," by performing the entire disc as a continuous solo performance in collaboration with the sound designer Levy Lorenzo.