A mini-festival of modern composers comes to SMU

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A four concert mini-festival of modern composers is coming to Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Auditorium. It’s the work of a contemporary music outfit...

Emily Levin and Michelle Gott sing while playing harps as they perform Stockhausen's 'Freude' during the Voices of Change concert at the Caruth Auditorium on the SMU Campus in Dallas on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021.Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Kaija Saariaho, Unsuk Chin. They’re major figures in musical modernism, right up to the present day, but rarely performed around here.

Of the composers programmed for the festival, only Boulez was French, but all but Hans Otte have had French connections:At Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University, Bishop and Binkley. Single tickets $20; four-concert package $60. 214-768-2787 ,You might think a concert of 16th-century English church music, in Latin — with a few pieces barely tipping into the 17th century — too esoteric to attract much of a crowd.

 

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