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At Home With the Modern, May 11, 2:00 pm

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:17:10 +0000

Sounds Modern presents “At Home with the Modern,” a concert in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Modern Art Museum building. Like the Modern’s current exhibition, our program features favorites from our collection and some fresh new discoveries: chamber music of modern masters Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, John Cage, and Lou Harrison, maverick innovators Stuart Smith, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Chaya Czernowin, and a premiere from Marcos Balter.

Cage’s Living Room Music will set the scene on Saturday, May 11 at 2 pm in the Modern’s auditorium. Elizabeth McNutt (flute), Christopher Deane (percussion), Matt Albert (violin), Rachel Yoder (clarinet), and other stars of modern music in DFW will perform.

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Admission free and open to the public.

Music from Freud’s London, September 15, 2:00 pm

admin — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:50:44 +0000

Sounds Modern invites you to experience a musical counterpart to the paintings of Lucian Freud at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

As Freud was reinventing the tradition of portraiture, a generation of English composers was also reinventing its relationship with tradition. At the heart of it was an ensemble, “The Fires of London,” formed by Peter Maxwell Davies and an eclectic group of composers and performers. Their concerts, like Freud’s paintings, brought together a celebration of modernist experimentation (they began as the “Pierrot Players,” performing Schoenberg’s expressionist masterpiece) and a renewed connection with music of the past.

Lucian Freud commented that “The longer you look at something, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Composers Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Michael Finnissy took long looks at the historical past to find new abstractions and new realities. With their music, Sounds Modern brings a sonic dimension to the portraits of Lucian Freud.

Saturday, September 15, 2012
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Admission free and open to the public.

Interview with Sharon Benge on Art Matters

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:40:08 +0000

In April, Sounds Modern director Elizabeth McNutt spoke with Art Matters host Sharon Benge about Sounds Modern, Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, and contemporary music in general. The interview aired on April 29 on WRR 101.1 FM and you can hear it again by clicking below!

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Coming Together at the Modern: May 5, 2pm

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:29:43 +0000

A provocative text and a powerful concept make Frederic Rzewski’s minimalist masterpiece Coming Together a fitting companion to Glenn Ligon’s America retrospective at the Fort Worth Modern. Intense, driving music played by the Sounds Modern ensemble will accompany spoken words written by political activist Sam Melville, written shortly before he died in the Attica prison uprising. J. Paul Slavens will narrate.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107.
Admission free and open to the public.

Welcome to Sounds Modern

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:12:09 +0000

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