ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

Boston, Ma

February 23, 2025 1:30PM

Yarn/Wire makes our debut at the Gardner Museum’s Weekend Concert Series. The program includes both a quartet by Tyondai Braxton—the multivalent composer, performer, and founder of the band Battles—as well as a work Yarn/Wire commissioned from the Tokyo-based Mochizuki. Steve Reich calls the score of his thrilling Quartet “one of the more complex I have composed.” This will be its first performance at the Gardner. Finally, the Museum has commissioned a new work from composer Phil Kline exploring the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, featuring soprano Nicoletta Berry.

PROGRAM:

Tyondai Braxton: Music for Ensemble and Pitch-Shifter Delay (2012)
Steve Reich: Quartet (2013)
Misato Mochizuki: Le Monde des ronds et des carrés (2015)
Phil Kline: ghost story (2025)*
*world premiere Gardner Museum commission