Southern Exposure presents: "An Idyll for the Misbegotten"

1322 Greene Street,Columbia SC 29208

16 April, 2021

Description

Music by George Crumb, Chen Yi, Toru Takemitsu, John Luther Adams, and David Garner. Limited in-person, audience, reservations required. Southern Exposure New Music Series presents“An Idyll for the Misbegotten: Music and the Natural World”University of South Carolina music faculty and students perform an outdoor program of music at Cooper Library Fountain that both celebrates nature and laments the role humans have played in its decline. Featured pieces include Chen Yi’s joyous Happy Rain on a Spring Night, for a quintet of strings, winds, and piano; Toru Takemitsu’s evocative percussion trio, Rain Tree; John Luther Adams’s animated flute octet, Strange Birds Passing; and Southern Exposure Assistant Director David Garner’s lovely, layered Eternal Song, a mixed wind / strings/ percussion / voice septet inspired by Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory. The program’s namesake and emotional center is George Crumb’s An Idyll for the Misbegotten, for flute and percussion. This work, meant to be heard “from afar, over a lake,” is inspired in part by the haunting theme of Debussy’s solo flute piece Syrinx, as flute and mixed percussion instruments represent “the voice of nature.” Parking, check-in, restrooms, and food/drink:Parking is available on the street and in the Bull Street Garage (fees may apply). Handicap-accessible access available from the south (Bull St. garage and west (Sumter St.). Click here for detailed parking information Check in before the event starts at the north end of the fountain next to Greene Street, top of the stairs. Russell House will be open to provide restrooms and for patrons to purchase food and drink.