Avant Gardner

CUTTING-EDGE CLASSICAL ● Experience fresh new sounds on Thursday nights as part of Gardner After Hours—featuring the Callithumpian Consort, “[a] courageous new music band” (The Boston Globe).

CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT
STEPHEN DRURY, artistic director
Gabriela Diaz, violin • Ethan Wood, violin • Karina Fox, viola • Benjamin Schwartz, cello • Jessi Rosinski, flute • Rane Moore, clarinet • Yukiko Takagi, piano • Jeffrey Means, percussion • Nick Tolle, percussion
This Season's Avant Gardner

SEPTEMBER 16, 7:00
LEFT COAST
Music by John Adams, James Tenney, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley

A new way of thinking about music-making—intuitive, experimental, embracing repetition and a return to tonality—has marked much of the music coming from America’s other coastline. We sample three generations of composers from Alaska to California who put old and familiar sounds to new and unfamiliar uses, highlighting that über-classic of American Minimalism, Terry Riley’s In C.

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Avant Gardner is made possible, in part, by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Mattina R. Proctor Foundation.
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Pictured above: Fra Angelico,
Death and Assumption of the Virgin (detail), ca. 1432

Ticket Prices

Adults $23
Seniors $18
Members $15
College Students $10
Children ages 5-17 $5
(Children under 5 not admitted to concerts)

Tickets include museum admission.
 
How to Purchase Tickets

Online:
 Tickets are available through MuseumTix.com.
$4 average ticketing fee applies

By Phone:
Call the Gardner Box Office at 617 278 5156.
Hours: Tues–Sun, 11am–4pm
$2 flat ticketing fee applies
At the Door:
 Tickets may be purchased at the front entrance of the museum, 280 The Fenway.
Hours: Tues–Sun, 11am–4pm


Along with free museum admission and other benefits, Gardner members receive ticket discounts for concerts, lectures, and other programs. Become a member today!

Please Note:
• Tickets purchased online or by phone within 10 days of the concert are held at the door.
• No refunds or exchanges will be made.
• Programs are subject to change.
• Please call 617 278 5156 to request accessible or wheelchair seating.

 
 
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