EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN
Our four-concert EXTRADITION PLAYS GOLDSTEIN series continues with two more concerts celebrating composer, violinist, and improvisation legend Malcolm Goldstein.
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JANUARY 25, 2025
On and On and Always Slowly Nowhere (1983): Sam Klapper (violin)
Bridging the Gap (1987): Shao Way Wu (bass), Collin Oldham (cello)
Broken Canons (for Charles Ives) (2011): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)
The Rich and Complex Vocabulary of a Percussionist’s Body/Gesture (1982): Matt Hannafin (percussion)
The Violence of Small Sounds (1984): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass), Juniana Lanning (percussion), Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion)
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Jade Mountain Soundings (1983): Collin Oldham (cello)
That Is Poetry As (1993): Sam Klapper (violin), Matt Hannafin (percussion)
Marin’s Song, Illuminated (1979): Annie Gilbert (trombone), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax), Shao Way Wu (bass), Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice), Juniana Lanning (percussion, objects), Loren Chasse (percussion, objects), Matt Hannafin (percussion, objects)
The Seasons: Vermont (Winter) (1983): Matt Carlson (piano), Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Loren Chasse (percussion), Matt Hannafin (percussion)
Configurations in Darkness (1995): Catherine Lee (English horn), Kara Lane (bassoon), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax), Sam Klapper (violin), Collin Oldham (cello), Shao Way Wu (bass)
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