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Duke New Music Ensemble Spring Concert
Saturday, April 4,
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Experience a thrilling night of sonic exploration as the Duke New Music Ensemble presents its Spring Concert, a program dedicated to the bold, boundary-pushing creativity that defines contemporary music today. Featuring works composed within the last 50 years-alongside electrifying group improvisations created in the moment-this performance invites listeners into a world where sound, texture, and imagination evolve right before their ears.
The ensemble, made up of adventurous musicians committed to expanding the possibilities of performance, embraces a wide range of musical languages: shimmering minimalism, expressive experimentalism, driving rhythmic energy, and delicate atmospheric soundscapes. Their performances are known for their immediacy and inventiveness, offering audiences a mix of the unexpected and the beautifully crafted.
A hallmark of the ensemble's identity is its emphasis on improvisation-works that emerge spontaneously through close listening, collaboration, and shared artistic intuition. These improvised pieces transform each concert into a one-of-a-kind event that can never be repeated, capturing the risk-taking and curiosity that sit at the heart of new music.
Presented in the intimate Nelson Music Room, this concert invites you to step outside the familiar and immerse yourself in the living, breathing energy of musical creation as it unfolds in real time.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
The ensemble, made up of adventurous musicians committed to expanding the possibilities of performance, embraces a wide range of musical languages: shimmering minimalism, expressive experimentalism, driving rhythmic energy, and delicate atmospheric soundscapes. Their performances are known for their immediacy and inventiveness, offering audiences a mix of the unexpected and the beautifully crafted.
A hallmark of the ensemble's identity is its emphasis on improvisation-works that emerge spontaneously through close listening, collaboration, and shared artistic intuition. These improvised pieces transform each concert into a one-of-a-kind event that can never be repeated, capturing the risk-taking and curiosity that sit at the heart of new music.
Presented in the intimate Nelson Music Room, this concert invites you to step outside the familiar and immerse yourself in the living, breathing energy of musical creation as it unfolds in real time.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
