Christopher Rouse Featured at Carnegie Hall’s Making Music Series

On Friday, April 15, Carnegie Hall devotes an evening-length program to the music of Christopher Rouse, performed by the Calder Quartet, Third Coast Percussion, and others, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky and moderated by Jeremy Geffen. Third Coast Percussion performs Ku-Ka-Ilimoku, a “savage, propulsive war dance” dedicated to the Hawaiian war god, Ku. The work, composed in 1978, “includes a wide variety of percussion, including a conga, bongo, metal plate, log drums, and a wooden plank struck with a hammer.”

Also on the program is Rotae Passionis, commissioned in 1982 for Boston Musica Viva, an ensemble work offering a humanistic exploration of the Passion of Christ. Stephen Wigler wrote in the Baltimore Sun, “[…]it is resolutely uncompromising in the way it forces the listener to come to terms with its raucous sonorities […] it is extraordinarily dramatic and consistently lyrical.”

See Christopher Rouse discuss his early influences in a video interview with Carnegie Hall: www.carnegiehall.org

Precise ticketing information about this concert can also be found at www.carnegiehall.org.

For more information on Christopher Rouse, visit his Composer Profile.

Christopher Rouse
Ku Ka Ilimoku (1978)
for percussion ensemble of four players
timp, log drums, cym, tom-t, wdbl, sd, cowbell, timbales, wooden plank, gongs, slapstick, metal plate
5'

Rotae Passionis (1982)
for orchestra
fl(pic, afl).cl(ecl, bcl).perc.pno.vn.va.vc(fl, pno, cl also play percussion instruments)
18'