CELEBRATING GYÖRGY KURTÁG AT 100
György Kurtág’s music has long been celebrated at Yellow Barn, in our summer festival and during past Artist Residencies. His aphoristic language takes little physical space; in a single note one hears an entire phrase—and in a phrase an entire message—but so often his work becomes the very air we breathe while listening to an entire concert program.
Two converging residencies have made possible a week spent celebrating Kurtág’s way of asking us to play and to listen. Together with Yellow Barn's resident artists, you are invited to celebrate his continuing contributions to our musical lives, in open conversation about his music on his 100th birthday, and in a full concert performance of his music just a few days later.
—Seth Knopp
Melissa Wimbish soprano
Movses Pogossian violin
Yaoré Talibart violin
Rosemary Nelis viola
Jean-Michel Fonteneau cello
Marcus Elliot-Gaved double bass
Seth Knopp piano
Artist Residency Events
Public conversation on Kurtág's 100th birthday:
Thursday, February 19
7:30-8:30pm
Concert:
Sunday, February 22
2:00-4:00pm
Free admission Request tickets
The Big Barn
49 Main Street, Putney VT
Artist Residency concerts are free for all audience members as part of Yellow Barn's "Pay What You Can" program. Donations to this program are always appreciated, in advance or at the door.
concert Program
György Kurtág (b.1926)
Tres pezzi, Op. 14e (1979)
selections from Kafka-Fragments, Op. 24 (1985-87)
Signs, Games, and Messages for string trio (1989-2005)
Fragments from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Scrapbooks, Op. 37a (1996-1999)
Six Moments Musicaux, Op. 44 (1999-2005)
Virág az ember (2000/2019)