This album addresses a network of musical relationships and inspirations. It opens with Morton Feldmans Rothko Chapel, named for the Houston, TX multi-faith chapel built to house Mark Rothkos

Rothko Chapel - Morton Feldman / Erik Satie / John Cage
- Morton Feldman described the score as his "canvas
This album addresses a network of musical relationships and inspirations. It opens with Morton Feldmans Rothko Chapel, named for the Houston, TX multi-faith chapel built to house Mark Rothkos site-specific paintings.
Feldman considered that his music lay between categories, between time and space, between painting and music, and described the score as his canvas.

Amongst his most important influences were abstract painters, his friend Rothko prominent among them. (Rothko, for his part, yearned to raise painting to the level of music and poetry.) Feldman was also liberated by the freewheeling example of John Cages work. The main influence from Cage was a green light, Feldman said. It was permission, the freedom to do what I wanted. Cage, the most relentless of 20th century experimentalists, didnt acknowledge what he called an ABC model of influence but always had a special fondness for Satie, a musical inventor of good-humored originality with whom he could identify.

Kim Kashkashian negotiates the subtle, glowing textures of Feldmans planes of sound, joined by Sarah Rothenberg on celeste, and supported by percussion and choir.

Rothenberg, on piano, plays Saties Gnossiennes and Cages Inner Landscape, and the Houston Chamber Choir sings Cages Four, Five and more.

Recorded:
May 22-23, 2012 at Stude Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston
Feb. 1-2, 2013 at the Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston
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Produced by Judith Sherman
Country USA
Brand Verve
Manufacturer ECM New Series
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 17712544
Model 17712544
ReleaseDate 2015-10-23
UnitCount 1
UPCs 028948117963
EANs 0028948117963

Country	USA
Brand	Verve
Manufacturer	ECM New Series
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	17712544
Model	17712544
ReleaseDate	2015-10-23
UnitCount	1
UPCs	028948117963
EANs	0028948117963

Rothko Chapel - Morton Feldman / Erik Satie / John Cage

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