Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), by George Crumb
Performed by Yarn/Wire
www.yarnwire.org
Recorded on May 25, 2018 at Purchase College, SUNY
Recorded and Engineered by: David Adamcyk
davidadamcyk.ca
Support for this recording of George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening was provided, in part, by:
University Facilitating Fund, Office of the Vice President for Research
The George Washington University
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MALLETS USED:
5B Barrel Tip
Heritage Brush
M136
M144
M241
M242
GEN 1 Roller
T3 Staccato
GB4
Chime Hammer
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ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE:
Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg, percussion / Laura Barger and Ning Yu, pianos). Described by The Brooklyn Rail as “fascinating and exciting, with playing that is precise and full of purpose.”, the ensemble is admired for the energy and precision it brings to performances of today’s most adventurous music.
Founded in 2005, Yarn/Wire is dedicated to expanding the repertoire written for its instrumentation, through commissions and collaborative initiatives that aim to build a new and lasting body of work. Influenced by its members’ experiences with classical music, avant-garde theatre, and rock music, the ensemble champions a varied and probing repertoire.
In 2016, the ensemble won first prize in the open category as part of the inaugural M-Prize competition at the University of Michigan. More recently, it is has been honored by Stony Brook University as one of its “40 under 40” alumni who are leaders in their field.
Yarn/Wire has commissioned many American and international composers including Enno Poppe, Michael Gordon, Ann Cleare, Raphaël Cendo, Peter Evans, Alex Mincek, Thomas Meadowcroft, Misato Mochizuki, Tristan Murail, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, and Øyvind Torvund. As well, the ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bending artists such as Tristan Perich, Mark Fell, Sufjan Stevens, and Pete Swanson. Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO, Northern Spy, Distributed Objects, Populist, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint.
Yarn/Wire appears internationally at prominent festivals and venues including the Lincoln Center Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, rainy days festival (Luxembourg), Ultima Festival (Norway), Transit Festival (Belgium), Dublin SoundLab, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Contempuls Festival (Prague), Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York’s Miller Theatre at Columbia University, River-to-River Festival, La MaMa Theatre, Festival of New American Music, and London’s Barbican Centre. Their ongoing series, Yarn/Wire/Currents, serves as an incubator for new experimental music in partnership with Brooklyn-based arts organization Blank Forms.
Since 2016, the quartet has run the Yarn/Wire Institute at Stony Brook University, a summer festival for composers and performers interested in exploring the collaborative side of contemporary music. Through this and other educational residencies and outreach programs, Yarn/Wire works to promote not only the present but also the future of new music in the United States.
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