Event
Infinity Avenue: A Concert
Robert Carl has been in Hartford for 40 years, and while he has been all over the world presenting his music, this has been his home base. He’s also had a similarly long relationship with Real Art Ways, going back to the 1980s.
This concert celebrates Robert’s time here with a program of 5 recent pieces. Three were released last year on a CD by Neuma Records, featuring live acoustic instruments with computer-assisted electronic accompaniment. The other two are world premieres.
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Program:
Updraft (2013) for trombone and electroacoustic accompaniment
Matt Russo, trombone
Splectar (2021) for electric guitar with Max-computer processing
Matt Sargent (co-composer)
Infinity Avenue (2015) for open-form ensemble
Robert Carl, laptop
Steve Bonacci, saxophone
Matt Sargent, electric guitar
Kyle Grimm, contrabass
Wanderers for extended pianist* (2023)
Robert Carl, piano
Haiku from a Horrible Year for soprano and five instruments* (2020)
Texts by William Deatherage
Gilda Lyons, soprano
Allison Hughes, flute
Alex Kollias, clarinet
Selah Kwak, violin
Roselyn Hobbs, viola
Kyle Grimm, contrabass
*Premiere
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Robert Carl writes music that he hopes will create an amplifying space into which the listener may enter, feeling expansive freedom and release into realms previously unimagined. He takes inspiration from New England Transcendentalism and the music of Connecticut’s own Charles Ives.
