Festival Program at Kulturzentrum Don Bosco, Basel
 

Friday, February 28, 2025

18:00 - 18:50 | Conversation with Christian Wolff
 

Concert II | 19:30 PM

"Scelsi welcomes Christian Wolff (1934)"

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Divertimento No. 4 (1955) for violin, I - IV
Urs Walker (violin)
 

Intermission
 

Christian Wolff: For 3 Brass Players & 1 Percussionist (2023)

Metal & Breath (2007)

OUT-TAKE (2005)

Hold the Line (2025) World Premiere

Exercise 18. (1975)

Zink & Copper: Elena Kakaliagou (horn), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Robin Hayward (microtonal tuba), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion)

 

John Cage: 45’ for a Speaker

"There is something peculiar about Christian Wolff’s music.
One can only listen to it suddenly, just as one can only sneeze suddenly when having a cold."

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