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Iannis
Xenakis—the Greek composer, architect, theorist, and
resistance fighter—died in Paris on February 4 of this year, aged 78. Ivan Hewett wrote in the
Guardian that Xenakis’s music, ‘such magnificently innocent music, is bound to be out of place in our oblique, knowing age, so obsessed with its past, so fastidiously ironic, so concerned, in its art, to layer ambiguity upon ambiguity.’ Indeed, it is difficult to think of another composer whose passion is so entirely devoted to the future; it is this generosity that is his legacy.
Join Sospeso for New York's first retrospective of this unique
composer's career.
Read what the New York Times wrote about this event.
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catherine aks
guest soprano
karen
krueger
guest soprano
haleh abghari
soprano
cécile daroux
flute
stephen gosling
piano
jacqueline leclair
oboe
thomas kolor
percussion
rand
steiger
conductor,
percussion
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palimpsest
(1979)
for eleven musicians
thalleïn (1984)
for fourteen musicians
n'shima (1975)
for two mezzo-sopranos and five musicians
zyia (1952/1994)
for soprano, flute, and piano
dmaathen (1976)
for oboe and percussion
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