What is the All School Project?
Darmstadt: All School Project
The music of the Darmstadt School: An Introduction
Curtis Takes on the Forbiddingly Dense Music of the Darmstadt Composers
Darmstadt and Beyond : Curtis Takes on the 21st Century / by David Ludwig - from Overtones, 2016.
Curtis Deans reflect on Darmstadt from Overtones, 2015
Further Reading
New Music at Darmstadt by Call Number: ML275.8.D35 I43 2013ISBN: 9781107033290Publication Date: 2013-04-18
Performances at Curtis
Performances
Curtis 20/21 Ensemble
Kaija Saariaho, composer in residence
Sunday, October 30, 2016
3 p.m.
Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music
1616 Locust Street, Philadelphia
Celebrated violinist Jennifer Koh ('02) joins the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble for a concert portrait of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, "one of the most original compositional voices of our time" (Denver Post).
Curtis 20/21 Ensemble presents 1948
Thursday, December 3, 2016
8 p.m.
Field Concert Hall
1726 Locust Street
The years around 1948 marked the start of a Modernist revolution in music, as a new generation of rebellious composers produced wildly experimental work. The Curtis 20/21 Ensemble series begins in post-war Europe with the foundation of the early Darmstadt school and the (sometimes electronic) music of the young European avant-garde.
Curtis 20/21 Ensemble presents The New Yorkers
Wednesday, February 11, 2017
8 p.m.
Field Concert Hall
1726 Locust Street
The "New York school" composers of the 1950s and 60s were just as irreverent as their European counterparts. With John Cage as a ringleader, composers like Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, and many others explored the new territory of abstract indeterminism that freed their work from traditional expectations.
Curtis 20/21 Ensemble presents Beyond Darmstadt II
Monday, March 27, 2017
8 p.m.
Gould Rehearsal Hall
1616 Locust Street
As the Darmstadt school exerted an aesthetic dominance over the middle part of the 20th century, it stimulated a strong reaction. Composers worldwide rejected the stylistic orthodoxy of the post-war European avant-garde in favor of compositional techniques that drew from eclectic sources-from ancient sounds to popular music, jazz, and indigenous cultural traditions. A new group of American minimalists, neo-Romantics, and "downtown" composers emerged to create a new ecology of vivid sounds and vibrant rhythm that redefined new music and initiated the post-Modern era of today.