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Press Contact: Stephen Drury (617) 497-0823 HIGH MODERNISM GETS DOWN! Please join the Callithumpian Consort for some of the strangest programming we've managed yet! Two High Modern masterpieces for large ensemble will go head to head with "Stanley Kubrick's Mountain Home" by Paul Elwood, in which banjo and fiddle infect our clean dissonances with a deadly dose of mountain get-down. Iannis Xenakis' virtuoso late cello concerto EPICYCLES will feature cellist Ben Schwartz traversing the pre-Copernican heavens through the rotating thicket of the Callithumpian large ensemble. Gyorgy Ligeti creates a micro-tonal, micro-polyphonic web in RAMIFICATIONS for two groups of strings tuned a quarter-tone apart; a hallucinatory sound world from the composer's classic period. Elwood's STANLEY KUBRICK'S MOUNTAIN HOME (how can you go wrong with a title like that?) emerged from the composer's dream: "I was hiking in the mountains on a warm summer morning; walked over a ridge and, looking on a cabin down below, believed I was seeing the boyhood home of famed film director Stanley Kubrick." (Kubrick, of course, was born and raised in New York City .) The performance features Grand Ole Opry veteran Matt Combs on fiddle, composer Paul Elwood on banjo, and renowned soprano Ilana Davidson. As an added attraction, Pierre Boulez' early SONATINE for flute and piano, in a stunning performance by Jessi Rosinski and Yukiko Takagi, will open the show. The Callithumpian Consort PROGRAM: Monday, November 21, 2005, 8:00pm Admission FREE For more info, please visit http://www.callithumpian.org # # #
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