Radius Ensemble: Textures

Name: Radius Ensemble: Textures
Start: 2026-10-18T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-18T01:30:00+00:00
Location: Building W18

Saturday 17 October 2026, 20:00

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Saturday 17 October 202620:00 · Venue time (New York)

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MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN – Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon and piano (2025)
JONATHAN RUSSELL – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2026)
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CAROLINE SHAW – Limestone and Felt for viola and cello (2012)
FRANCIS POULENC – Sextet for piano and winds (1932)

“The world has gone bananas,” says Armenian-American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian. Her response? Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon and piano, a looping, cacophonous work that opens Textures, the first concert of Radius Ensemble’s 28th Season. Next is the world premiere of a Radius co-commission by Jonathan Russell, his Quintet for clarinet and strings. Limestone and Felt, a duo for viola and cello by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw, presents a clash of textures exploring, as Shaw says, the “opposing ways we experience history and design our own present.” Francis Poulenc’s raucous Sextet for piano and winds brings the concert to a joyful close.

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