Name: Essential Rzewski & Friends
Start: 2023-11-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: DOX+ Multifunctional Hall

Admin

Ostrava Center for New Music

Orchestra

Ostravská banda

ONO – Ostrava New Orchestra

Conductor

Petr Kotík

Pianist

Alvin Curran

Essential Rzewski & Friends

Prague

Czech Republic

DOX+ Multifunctional Hall

Public

Private

Les Moutons de Panurge

For 38 Players

Why is this night different from all other nights

O sweet spontaneous earth

A Long Time Man

De Profundis

Arshiya Banu

Approved

Ostrava, November 16 – On Tuesday, November 21, the multifunctional hall DOX+ in Prague will host an extraordinary evening – Essential Rzewski & Friends. It will be the sixth in a series of Essential Concerts organised by the Ostrava Centre for New Music in cooperation with the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. This year, the focus will be on representatives of the American avant-garde, headed by the renowned composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021). In addition to three Rzewski compositions, this unique concert will also feature works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Curran and Petr Kotík, composers who have enjoyed both lifelong friendship and professional collaboration with Rzewski. The concert will feature the international orchestra Ostravská banda with members of ONO – Ostrava New Orchestra

English

Essential Rzewski & Friends by Rzewski, Wolff, Christian, Curran, A., Weir, Šerkšnytė, From (2023/2023), Conductor Petr Kotík, DOX+ Multifunctional Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues