The Yale School of Music closes out the 2014-15 season of its acclaimed Yale in New York series with the Yale Percussion Group on Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
A preview performance will take place in New Haven, CT on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall at the Yale School of Music.The ensemble presents music from across the globe, including Mauricio Kagel's masterful Dressur, Paul Lansky's Textures, a world premiere from composer Michael Laurello, and works collected during Yale's two-week trip to Ghana in May 2014.Composer and pianist Michael Laurello's new work Spine is a percussion quartet. Laurello is an Artist Diploma candidate in Composition at the Yale School of Music and has written for ensembles and soloists including S? Percussion, Sound Icon, the 15.19 Ensemble, and collaborations with Sandbox Percussion and Yale Philharmonia.The Yale Percussion Group will also play Mauricio Kagel's virtuosic and highly choreographed percussion trio Dressur (1977). The ensemble earned raves for its performance of this same work at Carnegie Hall in 2010.The program includes a recent work from Paul Lansky, who retired earlier this year from Princeton University after 45 years. Textures, written in 2012-13, was composed for the group Hammer/Klavier and features two pianists and two percussionists.Photo Credit: Judy Sirota Rosenthal
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