On October 4th, the Talea Ensemble will present their first big concert of the season featuring Pierre Boulez’s classic Le marteau sans maître and Georges Aperghis’ wild, Triangle Carré.
Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master, 1955) is the work that established the composer’s reputation as a leading figure of the European postwar avant-garde.
René Char’s surrealist poetry, like that of Mallarmé’s that Boulez went on to set in future years, serves as the bridge between the worlds of Boulez’s arcane, severe harmonic vocabulary and the cool sensuality of his instrumental writing.
Georges Aperghis’ Triangle Carré (1989), written three decades later, takes an entirely different approach to exoticism. The friction of culture and timbre are primary areas of explorati ... Go to event
