Join Boyer Professor of Music and composer Maurice Wright in a presentation of electronic music, live performance, and the marriage of music and visuals. Professor Wright explains how he first came to create video counterparts for his electronic music, and how his fascination with images began to lead his imagination to grander schemes. Along with compositions for computer sound and projected video, flutist Chelsea Meynig (and Beyond the Notes alum) will perform PHOENIX, a work in which they collaborated via Zoom during the pandemic.
Maurice Wright’s musical life began as a percussionist, when he performed a solo on a toy glockenspiel in a one-room schoolhouse in Buckton, Virginia. Shortly thereafter, he began to study piano, and to experiment with electricity, using parts from discarded telephones. He began to compose, and to play the trombone. He studied electronic music at Columbia University with Mario Davidovsky and Vladimir Ussachevsky, computer music with Charles Dodge, instrumental composition with Chou Wen-Chung and Charles Wuorinen, music theory with Jacques-Louis Monod, and opera composition with Jack Beeson. Outstanding ensembles and soloists who have performed his work include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Emerson String Quartet, and the American Brass Quintet. The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts have recognized and supported his work.
Program:
Seven Cartoons (2000) 9:32
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Preciso
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Ritmico
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Misterioso
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Furioso
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Sommesso
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Cantabile
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Grande
A Fish’s Tale (2007) 7:46
Domestic Tranquility (2013) 27:05
PHOENIX (2021) 5:06
Chelsea Meynig, flute
Refreshments will be served.