Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100

Experience the pioneering sounds of the New York School through visionary performances that continue to reshape how we listen.

Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 is a citywide festival, consisting of 17 concerts across 6 venues, celebrating the centennial birthdays of New York School pioneers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.

A 10-Day Festival Pass is available until September 11, for admission to all St. Michael's concerts.

Orange Road Quartet and Matt Schultheis perform one of Feldman's most haunting late masterpieces, Piano and String Quartet is paired with new choreography by Annie Nikunen.

Often regarded as one of the towering achievements of twentieth-century chamber music, Trio immerses listeners in Feldman's expanded sense of time and form. Slowly evolving textures move beyond narrative towards fleeting sensations of memories, moments of deja vu, and misremembering.

A conversation across generations, this program pairs Negar Soley's Numerous Voices—a meditation on multiplicity, memory, and the expressive possibilities of the human voice—with Earle Brown's groundbreaking String Quartet, a work that reimagines the quartet through openness, spontaneity, and performer agency.

Nina Guo performs Feldman's hypnotic masterpiece for three sopranos transforms repetition into a subtly shifting monumentality. Dedicated to the memory of painter Philip Guston, the work reflects Feldman's lifelong dialogue with the Abstract Expressionists.

Besides celebrating the centennials of Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, this festival also marks the 100th birthday of György Kurtág. This program pairs Feldman's deeply personal series, Viola in My Life I-III with Kurtág's haunting Hommage à R. Sch., bringing together two composers who transformed the smallest of musical gestures into expansive worlds.

Celebrating three generations of experimental music, this program highlights Earle Brown's pioneering open-form compositions alongside works by Christian Wolff and Steven Swartz.

Composed as a tribute to his lifelong friend, For John Cage is among Feldman's final and most expansive works. Its vast musical canvas honors a friendship that fundamentally reshaped twentieth-century music through its interrogation of sound, silence, and its relationship to the world.

Anthony Coleman brings together two seemingly distant musical worlds, revealing unexpected connections between Weill's theatrical immediacy and Feldman's luminous restraint. The result is a program that reframes both composers through fresh and surprising perspectives.

Closing the festival, this program celebrates the enduring friendship between Feldman and Brown through chamber works that reveal two distinct yet deeply connected artistic voices. Together they embody the spirit of experimentation that defined the New York School.