St. Louis, MO – The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts will host a program of chamber music by Bela Bartók, György Kurtág and György Ligeti on Monday, June 20 at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm). The concert is part of a collaborative series with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and will be performed by SLSO musicians.
The aim of this ongoing collaboration is to explore with musical means the unique possibilities the Pulitzer building provides: an intimate setting to experience music, art and architecture. Chamber works that are performed are selected by David Robertson, SLSO Music Director Designate, and relate to installations on view at the Pulitzer, which is currently Brancusi and Serra in Dialogue.
Following the Steve Reich program performed earlier this spring and its connections to the works of Richard Serra, this concert will concentrate on an earlier European modernism, out of which emerged Constantin Brancusi. The compositions of Bartók, Kurtág and Ligeti reinterpret and pay homage to sources of inspiration used by the Romanian sculptor Brancusi, from Eastern European folklore to Western avant-garde.
The works to be performed include Six Bagatelles for wind quintet (1953) by Ligeti, Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreæ Szervánsky Opus 28 (1989) by KurtaÌg; and String Quartet No. 3 (1927) by Bartók.
Tickets are available through the Powell Symphony Hall box office at 314-534-1700 or through the website, www.slso.org. Tickets for the event are $20.00. Availability is limited due to venue size (100 tickets). Visit www.pulitzerarts.org for more information on the exhibition and concert series.
