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Music Department Residency

The Exception and the Rule: A Celebration of Christian Wolff Featuring International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Saturday, October 24, 2015
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Rollins Chapel
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts

Emeritus Dartmouth music and classics professor Wolff is a seminal new music composer, having collaborated with artists like composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham and devising approaches that have influenced generations since. Featuring the protean new music ensemble ICE and more than 10 international guests, this festival explores Wolff’s body of work and the joyful invention, committed social activism and tireless curiosity that has animated it.

FRI • OCT 23 • 7 PM • FAULKNER
SAT • OCT 24 • 2 PM • ROLLINS
SAT • OCT 24 • 7 PM • FAULKNER

The Exception and the Rule is sponsored by the Dartmouth Dept. of Music, Hopkins Center, offices of the President, Provost, and Dean of the College; Department of Classics and Comparative Literature Program; and the Dartmouth College Library. Major funders include the Leonard J. Reade 1917 American Music Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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