As a follow-up to Extradition’s early 2023 festival celebrating the work of composer Philip Corner, Extradition is pleased to announce EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN, a four-concert exploration of works by violinist, composer, and improvisation legend Malcolm Goldstein, whose friendship and creative collaboration with Corner has spanned more than six decades.
Participating musicians to be announced. Programs are subject to change.
OCTOBER 19, 2024
A Summoning of Focus (1977)
The Fragility of Line / Points Extending (1982)
Elegía (1987)
Yosha’s Morning Song (1972)
Scuttling a Space of Time, Slowly (2014)
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
An Enactment of Absence (1995)
By Way of Definition (1996)
Wandering Still (2017)
Process, or Time Between (2020)
. . . Out of Changes: Keeping Still; Mountain (1994)
JANUARY 25, 2025
On and On and Always Slowly Nowhere (1983)
Bridging the Gap (1987)
Broken Canons (for Charles Ives) (2011)
The Rich and Complex Vocabulary of a Percussionist’s Body/Gesture (1982)
The Violence of Small Sounds (1984)
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Jade Mountain Soundings (1983)
That Is Poetry As (1993)
Marin’s Song, Illuminated (1979)
The Seasons: Vermont (Winter) (1983)
Configurations in Darkness (1995)
AS A LONG CODA TO THESE CONCERTS, the remaining three seasons of Goldstein’s cycle “The Seasons: Vermont” will be performed as part of our spring, summer, and fall 2025 concerts.
Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936, Brooklyn, NY) is an American-Canadian composer, violinist, and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance internationally for more than six decades. In 1960 he received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University, where he studied with Otto Luening. Later that decade, he co-founded the Tone Roads Ensemble with Philip Corner and James Tenney and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. As a solo performer, Goldstein’s “soundings” improvisations have reinvented the sonic and expressive possibilities of the violin, and as a composer he has consistently integrated new performance techniques and aspects of structured improvisation into a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. He has also written extensively on improvisation, most notably in his book Sounding the Full Circle.
EXTRADITIONS PLAYS GOLDSTEIN is supported by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
