critical distance
The program, “Critical Distance”, deals with music written by composers living at a distance from their home – as expatriates, exiles, or simply in seclusion. Karel Husa escaped the Iron Curtain to become an icon of American music. Alexandre Lunsqui, while drawing on training as an engineer/jazz musician in Brazil, has recently immersed himself into the worlds of IRCAM in Paris and Columbia University in New York City. Georges Aperghis, a self-taught Greek composer operating out of Paris, draws inspiration for many of his compositions from both painting and theatre. Born in Maine and now Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, composer Eli Marshall draws on a broad pallet of approaches ranging from jazz to traditional Chinese music. c)i’s own Douglas Boyce was born in New York, and grew up in its orbit, but now finds himself an academic in Washington DC. Eric Moe’s And Life Like Froth Doth Throb was written while the composer was ensconced at the MacDowell Colony, a place where many artists choose to distance themselves for the purpose of artistic inspiration. This concert is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.