Structures

Morton Feldman

Structures a été jouée à Aarau, Aberdeen, Borås, Montréal, Ottawa et Sheffield…

(…) One of the most remarkable pieces (…) is “Structures for String Quartet” (1951). It is a classical string quartet without sonata development, without serial development in general without benefit of clergy. Like Emily Dickinson’s best poems, it does not seem to be what it is until all questions of “seeming” have disappeared in its own projection. Its form reveals itself after its meaning is revealed, as Dickinson’s passion ingnores her dazzling technique. As with several other Feldman pieces, if you cannot hear “Structures”, I doubt that studying the score would be a help, though it is a thouroughly notated field of dynamic incident, whose vertical elements are linked through some sort of shy contrapuntal stimulation of great delicacy and tautness.

Frank O’Hara(quoted from: Morton Feldman Essays: edited by Walter Zimmermann beginners press, Cologne 1985)

Structures

  • Compositeur·trice(s): Morton Feldman
  • Année de composition: 1951
  • Instrumentation: quatuor à cordes
Concerts
12 août 2000
Série QB
CageFeldmanSokolović
En salle
Montréal (Québec)
18 août 2000
CageFeldman
En salle
Sheffield (Vermont, ÉU)
20 octo 2000
Série QB
BlaisFeldmanIvesMariner
En salle
Montréal (Québec)
17 déce 2000
Série QB
BlaisFeldmanMarinerRisticSokolović
En salle
Montréal (Québec)
6 mai 2001
11h00
FeldmanPisaroWolff
En salle
Aarau (Suisse)
29 juil 2012
11h00
CageFeldmanMiller
En salle
Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)
9 sept 2012
16h00
CageFeldmanFrey
En salle
Borås (Suède)
28 octo 2016
14h00
CageFeldmanFerneyhoughIvesOesterleStravinskiWebern
En salle Entrée libre
Aberdeen (Écosse, RU)