Another year another X-Fest. This year we championed the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen. To much of the appeal of the avant-garde community, Stockhausen writes music that is to some difficult (to say the least.) When you program the music of this new music giant you are taking a risk, but most often a rewarding risk.
We performed works that to my knowledge have not been performed in Arizona before, the full list of works includes:
Freitag:
Freundschaft – with Keith Kelly, saxophone and CONDER dance
Musik im Bauch – with Crossing 32nd Street
Kontakte – Breet Reed and Karl Schindler
Sonnabend:
Zyklus – Simone Mancuso
Refrain – Jacob Adler, Ashley Oakley and myself
Originale – most of the arts community of Greater Phoenix
(The picture above is the work of Erin Muller and Jeremy Muller)