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  • 2019/20 Season
    • 7/29/19 - MUSIC AS EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE
    • 9/28/19: STEVE REICH: 'DRUMMING'
    • 11/11/19 - MORTON FELDMAN: 'FOR PHILIP GUSTON'
    • 11/25/19 - XENAKIS / PARMEGIANI: ASTRONOMIE SONORE
    • 1/13/20 - NEW VOICES V: (HARMONY)
    • 2/9/20 - CAGE / KLEIN: ARIA & RECITATIVE
    • 4/6/20 - PÄRT / RADIGUE: TABULA RASA
    • 4/7/20-4/9/20 - ÉLIANE RADIGUE: INTO THE VOID
    • 4/13/20 - DAVÓNE TINES: 'RECITAL No. 1'
    • 5/18/20 - ANNE CARSON, SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GLASS
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  • About MEC
    • History
    • Historical Testimonials
    • Artistic Director - Jonathan Hepfer
    • MEC Production Team >
      • Associate Producer - Brandon Lincoln Snyder
      • Grants Manager - Erika Bell
      • Photographer in Residence - Anneliese Varaldiev
    • MEC Gallery - Anneliese Varaldiev, photographer
    • Board of Directors
    • Venues
    • Videos: Performances, Interviews
    • MEC Archive: Programs 2006-2017 >
      • 2018/19 SEASON >
        • SEASON OVERVIEW
        • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
        • Oct. 5, 2018: AN ODYSSEY
        • Dec. 17, 2018 : HOW SMALL A THOUGHT IT TAKES
        • Jan. 14, 2019 : GAY GUERRILLA / CONTRALTO
        • Feb. 11 / Feb. 8-14, 2019: MARINO FORMENTI 'MA MORT' / 'ONE TO ONE'
        • Mar. 25, 2019 : A DREAM WHICH HAUNTS YOU STILL
        • May 20, 2019 : BRUTAL ELEGANCE
      • 2017/18 SEASON >
        • Director's Statement
        • The Concerts
        • December 4, 2017: Billone / Hildegard
        • January 8, 2018: Yarn / Wire
        • March 26, 2018: Nicolas Hodges
        • April 16, 2018: Sciarrino / Mundry
        • May 21, 2018: Monk / Eastman
        • May 23, 2018: *Radigue Portrait*
      • 2016/17 SEASON >
        • The Concerts
        • Season Trailer
        • Season Description
        • December 10, 2016 - Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
        • January 23, 2017 - Julius Eastman Portrait
        • March 6, 2017 - Michael Pisaro / Guillaume de Machaut
        • March 27, 2017 - New Voices III: Sorcery, Perhaps
        • April 24, 2017 - Georges Aperghis: Happy End
        • Season Bibliography
      • 2015/16 SEASON >
        • 2015 / 16 Season at a glance
        • December 7, 2015 - Talea Ensemble
        • January 11, 2016 - Songs for Crossing the Threshold
        • [SUNDAY, February 7, 2016] - FUNDRAISER AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
        • February 29, 2016 - Alexei Lubimov: Homage à Maria Yudina
        • March 28, 2016 - Séverine Ballon: Solitude
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DEC. 10, 2016        JAN. 23, 2017     MAR. 6, 2017          MAR. 27, 2017       APRIL 24, 2017

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Alain Fleischer - 'Framed' (1984)

In his short story Funes the Memorious, Jorge-Luis Borges writes of a man whose memory is so prodigious that he is consistently unable to recognize himself in the mirror, since he has become, in effect, a completely new person since the last time he looked.  With this philosophical principle  in mind, Monday Evening Concerts presents its 78th season, devoted to the way that the passing of time reinvents both music itself and the people who listen to it. Framing contemporary music this way, we are able to recognize the past as radical and visionary, and the current avant-garde as traditional.  This season, Morton Feldman invites us to be flâneurs in the the musical labyrinth of his classic Crippled Symmetry. Julius Eastman summons the spirit of the 15th century martyr Joan of Arc as channeled by an ostracized gay, black man in the early 1980s. We discover both the apparent and underlying aesthetic connections between the 14th century poet/composer Guillaume de Machaut and present-day Los Angeles' own Michael Pisaro. Emerging composers such as Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Trevor Bača will make their MEC debuts. The Formalist Quartet and the cellist Séverine Ballon return to MEC's stage to present works by Chaya Czernowin and Helmut Lachenmann. Finally, we close our season with the return of New York's critically acclaimed Talea Ensemble presenting Georges Aperghis' futuristic re-imagining of Charles Perrault's 17th century children's tale Little Thumb.  
                                                                             

 ~  Jonathan Hepfer, Artistic Director
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  • 2019/20 Season
    • 7/29/19 - MUSIC AS EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE
    • 9/28/19: STEVE REICH: 'DRUMMING'
    • 11/11/19 - MORTON FELDMAN: 'FOR PHILIP GUSTON'
    • 11/25/19 - XENAKIS / PARMEGIANI: ASTRONOMIE SONORE
    • 1/13/20 - NEW VOICES V: (HARMONY)
    • 2/9/20 - CAGE / KLEIN: ARIA & RECITATIVE
    • 4/6/20 - PÄRT / RADIGUE: TABULA RASA
    • 4/7/20-4/9/20 - ÉLIANE RADIGUE: INTO THE VOID
    • 4/13/20 - DAVÓNE TINES: 'RECITAL No. 1'
    • 5/18/20 - ANNE CARSON, SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GLASS
  • UP NEXT FOR MEC
  • About MEC
    • History
    • Historical Testimonials
    • Artistic Director - Jonathan Hepfer
    • MEC Production Team >
      • Associate Producer - Brandon Lincoln Snyder
      • Grants Manager - Erika Bell
      • Photographer in Residence - Anneliese Varaldiev
    • MEC Gallery - Anneliese Varaldiev, photographer
    • Board of Directors
    • Venues
    • Videos: Performances, Interviews
    • MEC Archive: Programs 2006-2017 >
      • 2018/19 SEASON >
        • SEASON OVERVIEW
        • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
        • Oct. 5, 2018: AN ODYSSEY
        • Dec. 17, 2018 : HOW SMALL A THOUGHT IT TAKES
        • Jan. 14, 2019 : GAY GUERRILLA / CONTRALTO
        • Feb. 11 / Feb. 8-14, 2019: MARINO FORMENTI 'MA MORT' / 'ONE TO ONE'
        • Mar. 25, 2019 : A DREAM WHICH HAUNTS YOU STILL
        • May 20, 2019 : BRUTAL ELEGANCE
      • 2017/18 SEASON >
        • Director's Statement
        • The Concerts
        • December 4, 2017: Billone / Hildegard
        • January 8, 2018: Yarn / Wire
        • March 26, 2018: Nicolas Hodges
        • April 16, 2018: Sciarrino / Mundry
        • May 21, 2018: Monk / Eastman
        • May 23, 2018: *Radigue Portrait*
      • 2016/17 SEASON >
        • The Concerts
        • Season Trailer
        • Season Description
        • December 10, 2016 - Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
        • January 23, 2017 - Julius Eastman Portrait
        • March 6, 2017 - Michael Pisaro / Guillaume de Machaut
        • March 27, 2017 - New Voices III: Sorcery, Perhaps
        • April 24, 2017 - Georges Aperghis: Happy End
        • Season Bibliography
      • 2015/16 SEASON >
        • 2015 / 16 Season at a glance
        • December 7, 2015 - Talea Ensemble
        • January 11, 2016 - Songs for Crossing the Threshold
        • [SUNDAY, February 7, 2016] - FUNDRAISER AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
        • February 29, 2016 - Alexei Lubimov: Homage à Maria Yudina
        • March 28, 2016 - Séverine Ballon: Solitude
      • PROGRAMS 2006-2015
    • Press
    • Partners and Supporters
  • Buy Tickets
  • Support MEC
  • Join Email List
  • Contact