Stephen Drury identifies the four great strands of the American musical genius – the ecstatically mystical, the profoundly comic, the social narrative, and the brazenly experimental – and weaves a program which unifies them all in Charles Ives’s great masterwork.

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Works to be performed on “The American Musical Genius” program include:

Charles Ives, Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass. 1840 – 1860”
Carl Ruggles, Evocations
John Zorn, Carny
John Cage, Etudes Australes
Christian Wolff, Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida