Returning to the concrete concert hall for a third season after performances of Stockhausen/Aphex Twin in 2022 and Galina Ustvolskaya/Oliver Leith in 2023, GBSR brings the iconic American composers George Crumb and Steve Reich and iconoclastic English composer Steve Martland to Bold Tendencies, joined once again by trusted collaborators Jo Havlat and Sam Wilson. George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening (1975) is one of greatest of all his works, using a vast array of percussion and keyboard instruments from Tibetan prayer stones to the African thumb piano. Steve Reich is illuminated with his brilliant and beautiful Quartet from 2013, written for two pianos and two vibraphones. Steve Martland's Drill (1987) for two pianos is one of his most radical and profound pieces, exemplary of his distinctive, edgy sound.
