sir harrison birtwistle
british existentialism
saturday · 18 september 1999 · 8 pm
the miller theater at columbia university
broadway at 116 · new york
In the first of four concert portraits of European composers this season at the Miller Theater, the Ensemble Sospeso performs works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose music has been compared to the art of another British modernist, Francis Bacon, in its vividness and violence.

Read what the New York Times wrote about the concert.

stephen gosling piano
haleh abghari soprano  
jeffrey milarsky conductor  

 




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american premiere
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