{"id":440800,"date":"2023-01-19T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/?p=440800"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:40:09","slug":"dublab-notes-from-the-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/nmbx\/dublab-notes-from-the-archipelago\/","title":{"rendered":"dublab — Notes from the Archipelago"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Ed note: Founded in 1939 by Peter Yates and Frances Mullen in their modest Rudolf Schindler-designed Silverlake home, Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) is the world’s longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Originally envisioned as a forum for displaced European emigr\u00e9s and virtuoso Hollywood studio musicians to sink their teeth into the most challenging solo and chamber music of the day (such as the works of Charles Ives, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie, John Cage and B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k), MEC has blossomed its way to international acclaim for its presentation of demanding, uncompromising and poetically-charged music \u2013 whether new or ancient.<\/p>\n

For eight decades, musical history has been made at MEC, whether it was the American conducting debut of Pierre Boulez, world premieres of compositions by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Harold Budd, the early-career performances of future classical music icons such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Marilyn Horne, or the first Los Angeles appearances of artists like Marino Formenti, the Arditti and JACK Quartets and Steve Reich and Musicians. — Alejandro Cohen]<\/small><\/p>\n