If you missed last week's New Music Circle season finale at the William Kerr Center, you have another chance to hear local new music composers this Saturday when the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis hosts the Mizzou New Music Initiative's "New Music, New Works." Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia composition students Grant Fonda, Joe Hills, and Joseph Weidinger have written scores that attempts to "capture the aural essense," of work by David Johnson, Asma Kazmi and Mel Trad, the featured artists in CAMSTL's Great Rivers Biennial, which opened last Friday.
Performing these young composers' works will be the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, the Initative's repertory group, made up of Mizzou grad students and directed by cellist and professor Stefan Freund. The ensemble will also perform "Ad Parnassum," a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky, inspired by works by Paul Klee. To get a sense of what the show might be like, check out "The Sound of Art," above, where young composers like David Witter describe the experience of translating visual art at the into music (he worked with Martin Brief's "Amazon God,"), and to hear MNME play those pieces.
"New Music, New Works" takes place at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at CAMSTL, 3750 Washington, 314-535-4660, camstl.org. The event is free.
