Past Performances

Season:

AMERICAN EXPLORATIONS

Sat Oct 20 2012
Tenri Cultural Institute

Eclectic and challenging, counter)induction’s season opener highlights music by three generations of American composers across a broad aesthetic spectrum. Presented in collaboration with the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the performance included works by Kyle Bartlett, Brian Fennelly, Louis Karchin, Yehudi Wyner, as well as others. [more info]

Etudes and Studies

Thu Jan 31 2013
Library of Performing Arts

The tradition of etude writing is not confined to mechanical exercises for students; the notion of the etude encompasses music that approaches compositional challenges as well This program presents recent works that surmount performative and aesthetic challenges with equal parts elegance and savagery.

With guest performers Yuki Numata, violin, Karen Ouzounian, cello, and Ning Yu, piano

This concert is free to the public, no reservation required. [more info]

Upcoming Performance:

Rhyton

Fri May 31 2013, 08:00PM
Tenri Cultural Institute

In ancient Greek, Minoa and Persia, rhyta were ceremonial vessels in the form of animals, containers for wine and other beverages, associated with formal ceremonies, and ribald satyrs in equal measure. This concert presents works in the shape of animals, becoming a vessel of significance and representation and establishing a bridge between music and the natural world. [more info]

“The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgment, quietly insinuates itself into manners and customs, and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.”
--Plato, "The Republic"