Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival and Symposium

January 11, 2018 (All day) to January 13, 2018 (All day)

Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival and Symposium will feature three days of concerts and symposia by leading performers, composers, and theorists of microtonal music.
Copresented with The Andy Warhol Museum

Three days of concerts and symposia by leading performers, composers, and theorists of microtonal music!

Schedule of events: 

Thursday, January 11

Musice on the Edge: Beyond Festival Orchestra, Gil Rose conductor
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland

David Krakauer, Loadbang, Rahim Alhaj and Issa Malluf, soloists. Works by Georg Friedrich Haas („... e finisci già?“), Mathew Rosenblum (Lament/Witches’ Sabbath), Taylor Brook (Tarantism), Rahim Alhaj (Letters from Iraq, movements 6 & 7), and Zhong Juncheng (Looking Back Luo Yue)

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Friday, January 12

Symposium Session 1
Performer/Composer Panel Discussion: Creation, Performance, Politics
4–6 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Music on the Edge
Charles Corey and Luke Fitzpatrick perform excerpts from Harry Partch’s Barstow and Li Po Settings. Loadbang performs works by Michael Edward Edgerton, Taylor Brook, Eve Beglarian, and others. 
7:30 p.m.
The Andy Warhol Museum Theater­

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Saturday, January 13

Symposium Session 2
Theoretical Issues: Harry Partch and Beyond
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Festival Reception, University of Pittsburgh Microtonal Music
Archive Announcement
1-2 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Cloister

Concert: Microtonal Pittsburgh, (Free)
Featuring Alia Musica, Nat 28, Kamraton, Wolf Trap, ELCO, Elizabeth Brown (shakuhachi soloist), Ted Mook (cello), and the University of Pittsburgh Gamelan, performing Alvin Lucier, Julia Werntz, Devon Tipp and others
2–5 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and Art Gallery

Concert: Rahim Alhaj, Oud with percussionist Issa Malluf
Alhaj and Malluf perform contemporary and traditional Iraqi music.

David Krakauer and Ancestral Groove
The legendary klezmer band takes over the Warhol for a closing dance party!
8 p.m.
The Andy Warhol Museum Entrance Space

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Location and Address

Various locations

Event Type

Symposium