Ensemble Modern Tickets

Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

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Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: New York, USA

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Overview

Visiting: Frankfurt am Main

“De materia” (On music and matter) could be the motto of this programme by Ensemble Modern. Through the physicality of music and the expansion of the musical space, the compositions of Neuwirth, Varèse and Andriessen have opened up new dimensions for music.

The musical contribution to the Bauhaus-year. Louis Andriessen dedicated the third part of his full-length work of musical theatre “De Materie” to the artists’ movement “De Stijl”, which was in close connection to the Bauhaus and its ideas; Piet Mondrian remained their best-known representative. The musical freestyler Andriessen, whose orchestration includes instruments played in rock music, not only incorporates statements about Mondrian and “Plastic Mathematics” as lyrics, but also organises the piece’s dramaturgy and time sequences according to the principles of Mondrian’s geometry – an exciting experiment on freedom and adventure. Andriessen is interested in the “clear line” – and in the music’s physicality. This was, claimed Dieter Schnebel, the “disturbing and fascinating” characteristic of Varèse’s music, regardless of whether he mobilised a huge apparatus, one instrument, or an ensemble with or without electronics. “In Varése’s music, we can physically experience what sound it, as it were; we not only hear the vibrations, we feel them.” The physique of the instrumental sound becomes the centre of Olga Neuwirth’s concept of a modern piano concerto. “The colours of the soloist are complemented by a ‘double’ from the sampler keyboard, which adds microtones to the tonal space of the piano; the ensemble explores an expanded musical space. The material is in a state of flow.” “De materia”, on music and matter, could be the title of Ensemble Modern’s programme.

Venue Info

Carnegie Hall - New York
57th Street and Seventh Avenue

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments, and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups. The hall has not had a resident company since 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall in 1973 and David Geffen Hall in 2015).

Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among its three auditoriums.

Carnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate performance spaces.

Carnegie Hall is one of the last large buildings in New York built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame; however, when several flights of studio spaces were added to the building near the turn of the 20th century, a steel framework was erected around segments of the building. The exterior is rendered in narrow Roman bricks of a mellow ochre hue, with details in terracotta and brownstone. The foyer avoids typical 19th century Baroque theatrical style with the Florentine Renaissance manner of Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel: white plaster and gray stone form a harmonious system of round-headed arched openings and Corinthian pilasters that support an unbroken cornice, with round-headed lunettes above it, under a vaulted ceiling. The famous white and gold auditorium interior is similarly restrained. The firm of Adler & Sullivan of Chicago, noted for the acoustics of their theaters, were hired as consultant architects though their contributions are not known.