Los Angeles–based contemporary music collective Wild Up brings composer Julius Eastman’s Femenine (1974) as part of a multiyear project to perform and record Eastman’s original scores. In the New York contemporary music scene of the 1970s and ’80s, Eastman was both an outsider and provocateur—his motto was “to be what I am to the fullest: Black to the fullest, a musician to the fullest, and a homosexual to the fullest.” He died in obscurity and poverty in 1990 at age 49; decades later, Eastman’s music is enjoying a renaissance as his scores have been unearthed and performers have devoted themselves to realizing his vision.
Join us for a post-performance moderated discussion.
An Illuminations: “Individual & Community” event.
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Eastman
Femenine
Performers
Christopher Rountree
conductor