NMD26: FOR MORTON FELDMAN

Het Collectief
Thomas Dieltjens, piano
Toon Fret, flute
Anita Cappuccinelli, percussion
Klaas Verpoest, video

Morton Feldman Why Patterns? 
Jean-Luc Fafchamps For Morton Feldman [Irish premiere]
David Fennessy  Bones [Irish premiere]

Inspired by the music of Morton Feldman, this programme brings together his seminal Why Patterns? (1978) with two recently commissioned responses by Jean-Luc Fafchamps and David Fennessy. 

Performed by Het Collectief on flute, piano and percussion, with video, the concert explores Feldman’s distinctive sound world and its afterlives: music shaped by resonance, restraint and an unorthodox sense of time. Jean-Luc Fafchamps’ For Morton Feldman, commissioned by Het Collectief, is a response to the American composer’s abstract work via the figurative, narrative work of artist Philip Guston, with whom Feldman had an infamous parting of artistic ways. David Fennessy’s Bones draws from a starting point of a Paddy Moloney tin whistle recording of The Lark in the Clear Air, which is stretched in its harmonic and melodic implications. The second movement of the work is a decay or deconstruction, perhaps even a coda, to the first.

Presented by New Music Dublin with support from the Arts Council and in partnership with RTÉ and the National Concert Hall