Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music

Da Jeong Choi

Top of the Mountain (2009) 1st mvt

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Chamber Music Now!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Chamber Music Now began in 2001 when two Philadelphia composers, Richard Belcastro & David Laganella, created the concert series initially as a means to cultivate their connections to performing artists and to disseminate their works.  Attention to the series was immediate and it has quickly emerged as a conduit for the creative output of young talent and established artists from the Philadelphia area and internationally. Over the past five seasons CMN has earned a reputation for presenting and producing concerts that feature leading artists, unique programming and collaborative multi-media unlike anything else found in the Philadelphia community. CMN’s annual concert series focuses on new chamber arts that come from a variety of collaborative efforts and unique sources of inspiration. The organization’s multi-disciplinary programming and themed concert productions feature unique repertoire, the premiers of new compositions and pre-concert events that are designed to connect the productions to a large and diverse audience. CMN designs its concert themes and collaborative efforts to attract a broad range of new listeners and to re-shape the image of chamber music in the community by challenging its conservative perception . . .
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       Iannis Xenakis

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Iannis Xenakis was born in Brăila, Romania, and studied architecture in Athens, Greece. He participated in the Greek Resistance during the World War II and the first phase of Greek Civil War as a member of the students company Lord Byron of ELAS (Greek Peoples Liberation Army). He received a severe face wound and escaped a death sentence. In the '50s he fled to Paris and worked with Le Corbusier. While his assistant, Xenakis designed the Philips Pavilion, home of the première of Edgar Varèse's Poème Électronique at the 1958 Brussels International Fair. He is particularly remembered for his pioneering electronic and computer music, and for the use of stochastic mathematical techniques in his compositions. In keeping with his use of probabilistic theories, many of Xenakis' pieces are, in his own words, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions".
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