About this Event
Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 is a citywide festival celebrating the centennial birthdays of New York School pioneers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. Across seventeen concerts, talks, and special events, the festival brings together leading performers from the contemporary music community to explore two composers whose revolutionary ideas transformed the landscape of twentieth-century music.
Monday, November 16
Music 6:00 PM
Works for Five Pianos by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown
Yamaha Artist Services, New York, NY
Five pianos become a vast instrument in this extraordinary evening celebrating the centennial years of Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and György Kurtág. From Brown's revolutionary open-form masterpiece 25 Pages to Feldman's monumental Five Pianos, with music by Webern, Schubert, and Kurtág illuminating the lineage that shaped them, the program reveals the piano as an orchestra of resonance, color, and infinite possibility.
Artists
- Steve Long — piano
- Lisa Yui — piano
- Anthony de Mare — piano
- Nils Vigeland — piano
- Blair McMillen — piano
Program
- Earle Brown — 25 Pages
- Morton Feldman — Four Pianos
- Anton Webern — Arrangement of Schoenberg's Farben
- Franz Schubert — Impromptu in G-flat Major
- Morton Feldman — Blood of the Lamb
- György Kurtág — Four-hand arrangement of J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 106, Sinfonia
- Morton Feldman — Five Pianos
Additional performances and special events take place throughout New York City. Explore the complete festival schedule through these links:
- Roerich Museum
- Columbia University: Oct. 20 & Oct. 22
- Mise-en-Place
- Loove Annex
- Yamaha Artist Services
- St. Michael's
Event venue & nearby stays
Yamaha Artist Services, 689 5th Avenue, New York, United States
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.