“The world has gone bananas,” says Armenian-American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian. Her response? Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon, and piano, a looping, cacophonous work that opens Textures, the first concert of Radius Ensemble’s 28th Season.
Next is the world premiere of a Radius co-commission by Jonathan Russell, his quintet for clarinet and strings.
Limestone and Felt, a duo for viola and cello by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw, presents a clash of textures exploring, as Shaw says, the “opposing ways we experience history and design our own present.”
Francis Poulenc’s raucous sextet for piano and winds brings the concert to a joyful close.
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Eran Egozy
Professor of the Practice of Music
Director, Music Technology & Computation Graduate Program