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KLANG

Elizabeth Huston
"NEBADON," the 17th Hour of KLANG, performed by Christina Chapman, photo by Klaus Rudolph. 
"NEBADON," the 17th Hour of KLANG, performed by Christina Chapman, photo by Klaus Rudolph. 
Axel Porath of MusikFabrik performing “HOFFNUNG,” the 9th hour of KLANG. Photo by Klaus Rudolph.
Axel Porath of MusikFabrik performing “HOFFNUNG,” the 9th hour of KLANG. Photo by Klaus Rudolph.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cosmic Pulses, score.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cosmic Pulses, score.
Milana Zarić and Gorana Ćurgus performing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Hour II. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Milana Zarić and Gorana Ćurgus performing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Hour II. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Stewart Gerber performing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Hour IV, Heaven's Door. Photo by Alain Taquet.
Stewart Gerber performing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Hour IV, Heaven's Door. Photo by Alain Taquet.
Karlheinz Stockhausen. Photo by Kathinka Pasveer.
Karlheinz Stockhausen. Photo by Kathinka Pasveer.

Contemporary music producer Elizabeth Huston will present pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s KLANG: Die 24 Stunden des Tages (Sound: The 24 Hours of the Day), a daylong series of chamber music compositions, each written to represent an hour of the day. The innovative work was left unfinished at the time of the composer’s death in 2007 and has never been performed as originally intended, with its 21 completed pieces played in order. “All of Stockhausen's music is fundamentally concerned with the phenomenon of time: structuring it, making it tangible, and spanning the continuum between ‘organic time’ of living beings and the ‘astronomical time’ of the cosmos,” says Huston. “This concert will allow people to slow down and observe an artistic rendering of time.” Stockhausen expert Joe Drew, who orchestrated a previous performance of KLANG, and members of the Germany-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, who worked closely with Stockhausen, will consult with Huston’s ensemble of Philadelphia-based musicians during a performance laboratory. To convey Stockhausen’s intention for KLANG to be a visual experience, Huston will work with lighting designer Thomas Dunn, who will represent the colors the composer notated for the compositions. Stockhausen selected a color for each piece based on the harmony he heard while looking at the colors contained in a 24-color cycle developed by chemist Wilhelm Ostwald.

Additional unrestricted funds are added to each grant for general operating support.
 

Recipient
Elizabeth Huston

Elizabeth Huston

Elizabeth Huston is a harpist, educator, and producer of contemporary performance events. With a mission to educate composers about the harp, Huston established a workshop series teaching composers how to write for the harp in inventive ways. She is the founder of A Change of Harp, an organization dedicated to bringing contemporary music to new audiences, commissioning new works for the harp, and performing existing works by American composers. In collaboration with Bowerbird, Huston created the Arcana New Music Ensemble, and she developed a harp program for the music education organization Play On, Philly!, as well as a harp summer program for Philadelphia youth. In 2017, Huston received Center support to present KLANG, a daylong series of 21 chamber music compositions, written by pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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