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On the horizon... OCTOBER 3 🎻🎻

📸 Sierra Pradada by @conrock

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✨ Graphic Content Festival OPENING WEEKEND ✨

Saturday, September 12

Doors at 7 PM, Music at 7:30 PM

Feldman’s Trio perfromed by Conrad Harris - Violin, Stephen Gosling - Piano, Alex Waterman - Cello

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 is a citywide festival celebrating the centennials of New York School pioneers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. The festival is made possible through the generous support of the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, with additional support from Chamber Music International.

Across seventeen concerts, talks, and special events, the festival brings together leading performers from the contemporary music community to explore two composers whose revolutionary ideas transformed the landscape or 20th century music. by @conrock

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✨TONIGHT! 7:30pm... ✨ Conrad, Steve and Alex take us on a singlular musical voyage, lasting ~110 minutes depending on all the vibes. The hidden drama in music repeating in small blocks of sound and subtle variation -- Morton Feldman's Piano Trio features wide registers, dramatic dialogues, and shifting sound colors between the violin, piano and cello.

@graphic.content.festival Night 2 (of 17) celebrating the centenary of Earle Brown and Morton Feldman ✨

📍St. Michael's Church @99th St/Amsterdam Ave.

Enjoy these mini clips from the private run-thru the other night 🫠 taken in St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Manhattan) by @conrock

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TONIGHT at 7:30PM SPECTRUM PRESENTS the music of MICHAEL HERSCH continues... at MISE-EN PLACE <harlem>

String Noise will perform "a tearing loose from matter" for two violins (2022)

"a tearing loose from matter" is a brief, single-movement work, written over two days in late 2022. I had been thinking about situations calling upon elusive ideas of compassion in difficult circumstances, issues that poet Shane McCrae often traverses in his writing. In creating the libretto for a new opera based upon McCrae's poetry, I found myself thinking about a particular few lines, lines which I never set in the opera but that lingered nonetheless:

"... he sare the tops of the other angels' heads before he sare their bodies
Before he sare their hands...
Shaking like the hands of humans when humans are pleading"

This in turn reminded me of a line from the end of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a book I hadn't thought about in well over 40 years:

"The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied..."
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In this piece of music, the violinists are called upon to vocalize throughout. Usually, they are singing varying vowel and consonant sounds. The vocalized text is from poet Jan Zwicky's book, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth:

... where the heart lay ... nothing... sun tumbles down"

The title of the work is a fragment from the poem The Memory of the Eye by loan Flora - translated into English from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Barta.

- Michael Hersch

📸 by Sierra by @conrock

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🔊SOUNDCHECK 🔊 for TONIGHT!!!

MICHAEL HERSCH

SPECTRUM

MISE-EN PLACE

HARLEM taken in MISE-EN_PLACE by @conrock

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STARTS TONIGHT @7:30PM!!!

Only a few tickets remaining -1 Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the second Spectrum Hersch Festival in NYC at Mise-en_Place on 10/2, 10/3 & 10/4 including multiple NY Premieres. Performers include Ah Young Hong, Miranda Cuckson, Ben Roidl-Ward, FLUX Quartet, String Noise, Coleman Itzkoff, James Austin Smith, Adda Kridler, Leah Asher, and Michael Hersch. by @conrock

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NEXT SATURDAY, September 12 at @graphic.content.festival Conrad, Steve and Alex will play Morton Feldman’s landmark 1980 composition TRIO, for violin, cello, and piano.

Comment if you know what video is playing in the middle of this trio of trios.

More about Feldman’s TRIO:

Musical Structure
Single Movement: The piece plays continuously without breaks, lasting between 85 and 105 minutes depending on the performance.

Anti-Narrative: Feldman rejected traditional musical storytelling that begins, develops, and ends.

Static Variation: The music repeats small blocks of sound and subtle variations rather than using a driving minimalist pulse.

Dynamic Range: Unlike his ultra-quiet meditative works, the Trio features wide registers, dramatic dialogues, and shifting sound colors.

It’s the opening weekend of a 17-event festival celebrating the centennary of Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, curated by the indomitable @nevets.gnol

Festival Passes for the 10 concerts at St. Michael’s
Church (225 W.99th St) available now! by @conrock

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Can you count 3 against 5? Like tapping your head while rubbing your belly 😅😆

Conrad, Steve and Alex will play Morton Feldman's landmark 1980 chamber music composition written for the conventional instrumentation of violin, cello, and piano NEXT SATURDAY, September 12 at @graphic.content.festival 🔥🔥🔥

Musical StructureSingle Movement: The piece plays continuously without breaks, lasting between 85 and 105 minutes depending on the performance.

Anti-Narrative: Feldman rejected traditional musical storytelling that begins, develops, and ends.

Static Variation: The music repeats small blocks of sound and subtle variations rather than using a driving minimalist pulse.

Dynamic Range: Unlike his ultra-quiet meditative works, the Trio features wide registers, dramatic dialogues, and shifting sound colors.

It's the opening weekend of a 17-event festival celebrating the centennary of Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, curated by the indomitable @nevets.gnol ✨

Festival Passes for the 10 concerts at St. Michael's Church (225 W.99th St) available now! by @conrock

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What a great night at THE STONE! Massive CONGRATS to Matthew Welch and FLUX Quartet! Two gorgeous string quartets to massage the brain. ❤️‍🩹 Wonderful to be with so many friends and fellow musicians as well!

Will be back tonight to hear Isabelle O'Connell play Matthew's 12 Etudes for Solo Piano -- thought he would say inspired by Glass. But, DEBUSSY!!! ✨ by @conrock

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A mini clip from last week's concert with Clare Monfredo and Locrian Chamber Players.

TONIGHT ✨ kicking off Matthew Welch's STONE RESIDENCY with @fluxquartetofficial ✨ [8:30PM] by @conrock

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"Oh Connie, it's your birthday!"
"Did you make a wish?"
"Mhmmm!"

🍣🫛🎂

08/01/26 by @conrock

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6pm on a gorgeous Friday night in Brooklyn... was transported, suspended and wrapped in glowing warmth. #pureresonance

"The Cosmic Egg" by Anthony Vine
July 31, 2026

St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church Brooklyn NY taken in St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church by @conrock

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