The Boost Percussion Group, pianist Dubravka Vukalovic and flautist Anna Buczkowska will perform minimal music by Glass, Adams, Reich, Cage and Lansky at the International Institute tomorrow.
The International Institute of Madrid (Miguel Ángel, 8) celebrates tomorrow Saturday, at 19:30, the last concert of the series on American minimalist music that it has been organising since last January. The series was launched on the occasion of the Madrid premiere, last April, of John Adams’ opera, Nixon in China. That first concert held in the American cultural centre founded in Madrid in 1903, featured the Spanish percussion group Boost, the Croatian pianist Dubravka Vukalovic and the Polish flautist Anna Buczkowska, who performed a programme of minimalist pieces composed by John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Paul Lansky. Given the success of the event, the International Institute has asked the same musicians to close the spring season by repeating the programme performed then, with very slight variations. Cage’s Living Room Music and Dreams will be repeated; by Philip Glass, Étude No. 6, Love Divided By, Japurá River and Arabesque in Memoriam (for solo flute, composed in 1988 in memory of Britton Johnson) and Taoist Sacred Dance (for piano and flute) will be performed as a novelty; by Steve Reich, Music for Pieces of Wood and by Paul Lansky, movements 3 and 5 of Threads will be repeated. On this occasion, in homage to John Adams, the reason for the creation of the cycle, China Gates will be performed, a short piece for piano composed by Adams in 1977, whose structure he himself described as “an almost perfect palindrome”.