Other Minds Festival 24: The Arditti Quartet play Ivan Wyschnegradsky
Organization:
Other Minds
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
3/23/2019
End Date:
3/23/2019
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
10:00 PM
Event
Info:
Single-minded and visionary composers are so often the ones most easily ignored by the changing currents of music taste. Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) led a life characterized by exile and cultural exclusion he was never part of any school, and the individuality of his work reflects his personal and lifelong determination to honor his deeply idiosyncratic muse. He was a founding father of microtonal composition and theory, yet he was at heart an expressionist, a spiritual descendant of Scriabin. Throughout his long life he sought audiences for his music but never compromised his artistic principles to gain the public ear. A mystical belief in the value of his work sustained him through these decades of neglect, affording his music surety and conviction.
The Arditti String Quartet of London, champions of Wyschnegradsky's work, will perform his microtonal pieces for strings. While string music comprises a smaller portion of Wyschnegradsky's catalogue than his better-known works for microtonal pianos, the Arditti Quartet makes a compelling case for Wyschnegradsky's quartets, exploiting the expressive capabilities inherent to strings. The expanded scalar and harmonic palette, and wider variety of timbres lead the way to reforming a repertoire long confined to 12 equal-tempered tones.
Georg Friedrich Haas' style makes extensive use of micro-polyphony, micro-intervals, and the exploitation of the overtone series he is often characterized as a leading exponent of "spectral music." String Quartet No 2 is a commission by the Wiener Konzerthaus for the Hagen Quartet, combining tonal, microtonal adjustments, temporal expansions and compressions resulting in a sometimes virtuoso, flickering sound picture. Tradition shines through again and again, but it appears as something lost, distant, clouded.
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