The program consisted of Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus, 90 minutes nonstop of vintage, exquisite music oozing - slowly, and on the edge of silence - around the periphery of some nameless vastness. For this performance the video artist Clay Chaplin devised a real-time visual counterpoint, projected images and abstractions of Ray's hands in action, moving in and out of focus, with words of John Cage from his 1959 Lecture on Something, woven through the screen images. Once again, as with the Tavener piece at the Bowl, the participatory silence around the performance became a part of it; I've seldom known 90 minutes to go by so quickly.
The venerable Leonard Stein, whose brainchild this series was, performs at the next Piano Spheres concert on November 24, followed by Gloria Cheng-Cochran, Mark Robson and Susan Svrcek, who ends her program (on May 18, 1999) with Beethoven's Opus 110 Sonata - that work, too, being music as deserving of the epithets "innovative" and "adventurous" as anything you'll hear all season.
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