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Music in the Museum: Last Pieces and Listening
November 3, 2016, 7:00 PM
Free
Morton Feldman’s Last Pieces is a group of four short works for piano that continue to be hot topics for music theorists and historians. Pianist Steve Pane (University of Maine at Farmington) will perform Feldman’s work and join Colby’s Steven Nuss, Anindyo Roy, Christiane Guillois, and UMF philosopher Matthew Houston and the audience for a discussion of Last Pieces informed by issues raised in Jean-Luc Nancy’s relatively recent work, Listening.
In addition to raising deep questions about what music is, does, and might be, Nancy’s work also offers new ways of thinking about the possibility of a shared aesthetic among the composers and painters — Morton Feldman. John Cage, Christian Wolff, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and others — of the so-called New York School of Music and Visual Arts in the 1950s-’80s.