AMOC* AT THE CLARK

AN AFTERNOON OF FREE PERFORMANCES

AMOC returns, after last summer’s campus-wide extravaganza, to the Clark Art Institute for another afternoon of epic performances across the museum’s bucolic grounds. Performances will feature violinists MIRANDA CUCKSON and KEIR GOGWILT, percussionist JONNY ALLEN, cellist COLEMAN ITZKOFF, dancer/choreographer JULIA EICHTEN, composer/pianist MATTHEW AUCOIN, countertenor ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO, and director/dancer ZACK WINOKUR.

PROGRAM

12:00PM – SCHUTTE CRYSTAL
A Starling Recital, featuring violinist Keir GoGwilt and guest double bassist Kyle Motl

A Starling Recital features violinist Keir GoGwilt and guest double bassist Kyle Motl in an array of baroque, folk, and improvised music, variously composed, transcribed, ornamented, and re-composed by Johann Paul von Westhoff, Dick Gaughan, Motl, and GoGwilt. Authorship is distributed not only between people, centuries, and traditions, but also between disciplines. A running theme of the recital is Christopher GoGwilt’s ‘starling’ poetry form – a template of 27 words that lends itself to musical iteration and re-iteration. To date, hundreds, if not thousands of starlings have taken flight – this recital presents the most recent integration of this poetic form in a musical context.

Johann Paul von Westhoff / Partita in d minor

i. Allemande
ii. Courante
iii. Sarabande
iv. Gigue

With starling poems by Christopher GoGwilt

 Keir GoGwilt & Celeste Oram / Transcriptions of Craigie Hill

With starling poems by Keir GoGwilt

 Kyle Motl & Keir GoGwilt/Treesearch / Excerpts from Know More Knowledge

1:20PM – ANDO TERRACE

AMOC artists animate the Ando Terrace and Clark landscape with a vast sound and movement journey, from Henry Purcell’s ethereal Dido’s Lament to the visceral and spatialized music of Iannis Xenakis and Tom Johnson. This hour-long extravaganza features violinist Miranda Cuckson, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, percussionist Jonny Allen, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and dancers/choreographers Julia Eichten and Zack Winokur.

Iannis Xenakis / Rebonds B

Jonny Allen, percussion

Iannis Xenakis / Mikka S

Miranda Cuckson, violin

 Andy Akiho / 21

Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Jonny Allen, percussion

 Tom Johnson / Nine Bells: First Bell

Jonny Allen, percussion

 Bobbi Jene Smith / Whip-poor-will

Julia Eichten, dancer

 Tom Johnson / Nine Bells: Second Bell

Jonny Allen, percussion

 Henry Purcell / “Dido’s Lament” from Dido and Aeneas

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Zack Winokur, dancer & choreographer

3:00PM – AUDITORIUM

AMOC’s marathon of performances concludes with an intimate concert that exists at the edge of silence. On this August afternoon, come in from the heat into the cool oasis of The Clark’s auditorium for an hour of reflective and mysterious music. The program will include AMOC artists performing music by Monteverdi, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Matthew Aucoin, among others.

Frederic Rzewski / Excerpt from To the Earth

Jonny Allen, percussion

Jörg Widmann / Selections from 24 Duos for Violin and Cello

Miranda Cuckson, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Brett Dean / Intimate Decisions

Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Matthew Aucoin / This Earth

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Matthew Aucoin, piano

Salvatore Sciarrino / Caprices Nos. 2 & 6

Miranda Cuckson, violin

Kyle Motl & Keir GoGwilt / Treesearch / Excerpts from Know More Knowledge

Keir GoGwilt, violin
Kyle Motl, double bass

Georges Aperghis / Requiem furtif

Miranda Cuckson, violin
Jonny Allen, percussion

Claudio Monteverdi / “Oblivion soave” from L’incoronazione di Poppea

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Matthew Aucoin, piano