| FLUX Quartet Tom Chiu & Conrad Harris, Violin • Max Mandel, Viola • Felix Fan, Cello |
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| John Cage | Four (1989) |
| Petr Kotik | Torso (2011-12) |
| Earle Brown | String Quartet (1965) |
| Morton Feldman | Structures (1951) |
| Alvin Lucier | Navigations for Strings (1991) |
| Luigi Nono | Fragmente – Stille. An Diotima (1980) |
| Admission: $15 / $10 Festival Pass, Students, Seniors | Buy Tickets | |
“When I studied composition in the late 1950s, my teachers were complaining about the lack of performance opportunities for new scores. Then I encountered John Cage, who composed and performed his own music and that of others…He was a great inspiration]. Who knows where would all of us be without his example?”
—Alvin Lucier
The FLUX Quartet – known for its performances and six-hour recording of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2 – performs contemporaries of John Cage. Musical associations among the composers are apparent, even in Luigi Nono’s Fragmente – Stille. An Diotima, that marks a radical departure from the prevailing European concept of time and sound. Violinist Tom Chiu founded FLUX in the 1990s, inspired by the all-embracing philosophy of “anything-goes, do-it-yourself” as expressed by Fluxus artists.