Third Stream
November 17th, 2008 | Make a commentOUR NEXT NEW MUSIC CIRCLE EVENT!
Morton Subotnick
Until Spring Revisited
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Forest Park Community College
Mildred Bastian Theater
5600 Oakland Ave.
The internationally acclaimed Morton Subotnick is a pioneer in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media. Most of Subotnick’s music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. A highly decorated talent, Subotnick has received multiple Rockefeller Grants, the Guggenheim Grant, and ASCAP’s John Cage Award among many others. Co-sponsored by Forest Park Community College, Subotnick will perform, Until Spring Revisited, a combination electronic music and video composition.
Subotnick’s work, Silver Apples of the Moon brought celebrity in 1967. The piece contains synthesized tone colors, striking for its day, and a control over pitch that many other contemporary electronic composers had relinquished. The record was an American bestseller in the classical music category, an extremely unusual occurrence for any contemporary concert music at the time. In addition to music in the electronic medium, Subotnick has written for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, theater, and multimedia productions. His “staged tone poem,” The Double Life of Amphibians, a collaboration with director Lee Breuer and visual artist Irving Petlin, premiered at the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival in Los Angeles.