String Quartet for Six Players (1976) and The Way He Always Wanted It XI (2013)

Sun, Oct 4, 8:00 p.m.
MoMA, Floor 2, Atrium
The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium

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This program pairs two works that underscore Stephen Prina’s recombinant approach to art. String Quartet for Six Players (performed by Either/Or) takes the first movement of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor as source material. Prina introduces two significant modifications into Mozart’s composition: doubling the violin parts and incorporating the roll of a six-sided die. Influenced by the Fluxus movement, Prina applies chance and indeterminacy to sonata-allegro, one of the most fundamental forms of Western classical music. The Way He Always Wanted It XI is a flute sextet using a melody programmed for player piano by the architect, painter, and composer Bruce Goff.

New York premiere

Previous performances of String Quartet for Six Players: Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria (premiere); Fundación arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; JUBG, Cologne, Germany

Previous performances of The Way He Always Wanted It XI: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (premiere)

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