Department of Music

On Thursday, April 5, the New Music Ensemble, directed by I-Jen Fang, will present a concert of indeterminate, minimal, and post-minimal compositions by 20th century composers. Some of the composers featured will be John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, and Tom Johnson.

This concert is partially in honor of John Cage's centenary festival, which is happening this year all over the world. This concert will feature not only three of Cage's compositions, including one of his later time-bracket works "Seven" for Chamber Ensemble and the austere "Six Melodies" for Violin and Piano, but will also include a rarely performed chamber piece "Solo with Accompaniment" by a composer directly influenced by John Cage's indeterminate compositions, Cornelius Cardew and a text piece by poet, composer, and Cage associate Jackson Mac Low. The concert will include a selection of Tom Johnson's "Rational Melodies," and an electric guitar quartet by Alan Shockley. Finally, the NME will be joined by a group of UVA graduate students and faculty for a special large chamber orchestra performance of Terry Riley's landmark work of minimalism, "In C."

Current members of the ensemble are Kevin Davis, Pat Hayes, Chris Peck, Lauren Simmons, and Robert Stein.

The UVA Electronic Guitar Quartet, directed by Michael Rosensky, includes Ian Dansey, Matt Elgin, Brett Jones, Monika Khot.

The U.Va. Music Graduate Students who will comprise the large chamber orchestra on Terry Riley's "In C" are: Amy Coddington, Pete D'Elia, Erik DeLuca, Braxton Sherouse, Yuri Spitsyn, Victor Szabo, and Paul Turowski.

For more information on this free concert, call 434.924.3052