From the Blog

• Return from Parnassus [Preview]

  January 23, 2012

  

  From Takemitsu’s elegiac “Toward the Sea,” to Xenakis’ menacing “Dmaathen” (with guest percussionist Svet Stoyanov, who will step into the spotlight for Steve Reich’s “Electric Counterpoint”), Claire has handpicked a program that shows versatility as well as virtuosity. She also has the honor of unveiling a new piece, Marcos Balter’s “Descent From Parnassus.”

• Claire Chase | Flute

  January 25, 2012

  

  "Working with Marcos is kind of like doing a high-wire act - he is always imagining impossible things, and yet he has this joyful, irrepressible optimism about the prospects of executing these impossible things. This combination of audacity and curiosity is a thrilling collaborative space."

• Claire Chase @ AIC: Return from Parnassus [Review]

  February 4, 2012

  

  Postscript: We really struggled to articulate our experience of Return to Parnassus. We ruminated, talked, took notes, ruminated, talked, took notes . . . Before long, we looked at our notes and realized we’d “gone all Twombly on ourselves.” 

• A posthumous homage

  January 16, 2012

  

  "Sadly, what was meant to be a three-way collaboration suddenly became a posthumous homage. I didn't get to meet my hero. But, the sheer poetry and genius of Twombly’s works are an immortal legacy, and they continue to inspire me in spite of the ephemeral inadequacy of his human body to his eternal quest toward flawed perfections." - Marcos Balter