Reed Family Concert: Boulez's Repons
This edition of Wednesdays@7 features Professor of Music and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick conducting the second annual Reed Family Concert. The concert will feature musicians from the Renga and Palimpsest Ensembles and will include a performance of Pierre Boulez's Répons (1981-84). This presentation of Répons will include solos by Distinguished Professor Aleck Karis (piano), Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom), graduate student Kyle Adam Blair (piano), graduate student Fiona Digney (xylophone and glockenspiel), Julie Smith Phillips (harp), and graduate student James Beauton (vibraphone). The performance will also feature technical integration led by Professor Miller Puckette and sound design by Professor Shahrokh Yadegari. The evening's program will include performances of Octandre by Edgard Varèse, a new work by graduate student Anahita Abbasi, and Répons by Pierre Boulez.