Saturday, March 11, 2017 | 7:30 p.m.
Main Street Landing, Black Box Theater
Burlington, Vermont

The Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble commemorates its 30th anniversary this month as one of the longest running new music organizations in the country. They have commissioned over 140 new works and premiered many more while offering Vermont audiences rarely performed post-tonal masterpieces including Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire; twice a full production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat; Messiaen’s Quartet of the End of Time and many more. This concert features four commissions and Paul Hindemith’s masterpiece from 1938 the Clarinet Quartet. The four commissioned works are Dennis Báthory-Kitsz’s The Descent of the Particles from a very early 1990 commission; David Gunn’s memorial to his beloved cat, the 2002 work Tannerka; Jorge Martìn’s 2003 commission Conjuration and Erik Nielsen’s response to the 911 tragedy We Must Always Have A Song. The musicians are Brooke Quiggins - violin; Bonnie Thurber Klimowski, cello; Steven Klimowski, clarinet and Mary Jane Austin, piano.
Admission by donation

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