Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (1983)
- Susanna Self-Huppert, flute and bass flute
- Henry Claude , glockenspiel and vibraphone
- Peter Henderson , piano and celesta
From John Rockwell’s “Morton Feldman (and Crippled Symmetry)”: “Feldman chose his colors instinctively but with fanatical precision. Every piece arose from the instruments playing it. In the case of Crippled Symmetry, it is the exact hues of the flute and bass flute, the piano and celesta, and the glockenspiel and vibraphone that create the piece's sound world. The patterns, symmetrical and then subtly asymmetrical (‘crippled’), were chosen with the capabilities of those three linked instrumental pairs in mind: how long a flutist could breathe, how abrupt flute notes could sound percussive, how a piano makes notes that attack, decay and sustain, how the precise delicacy of the celesta shades into the overt percussiveness of the glockenspiel and vibraphone, how the vibraphone can sing and sigh like a flute.”
The Flavin Concert Series at the Pulitzer is held in collaboration with
the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. The pieces performed relate
directly to the exhibition on view, and are performed by members of the
Saint Louis Symphony. Each of the programs are chosen by Music Director
David Robertson based on the way they relate to the exhibition concepts
and the works of art on view.
