Retrospective Concerts

In New York City CONTINUUM has pioneered "retrospective concerts," which celebrate individual composers. Exploring a broad range of their work, such concerts offer the listener deep insights into a compose's development. Retrospective concerts have dealt with established masters -- who are
sometimes known by only a handful of their works -- and introduced important new figures from around the world.

Continuum also has opened new vistas through topical concerts centering on decisive developments in new music. Those who attend Continuum performances over a period of years often talk of the perspective that they have gained on the controversial music of the last hundred years and the music of our time.

*An asterisk indicates a new program.

2002-2003
Israel
Darius Milhaud*
Stefan Wolpe and Ursula Mamlok
Music at the Crossroads (Central Asia)

2000-2001
Sonic Boom for kids (a children's concert)
Mauricio Kagel
Continuum at 35 (music written for Continuum)

1999-2000
Selected Schwartz -- music-theatrical works by Francis Schwartz, Jon
Deak, John Cage, and Joan LaBarbara
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Roberto Sierra
Ushio Torikai

1998-99
Arvo Pärt*
Leon Kirchner*
Paul Schoenfield

1997-98
Remembering Conlon Nancarrow*
Virko Baley -- 60th Birthday
Viktor Ullmann

1996-97
Chinary Ung
Giacinto Scelsi
Honoring Finland
Homage to Takemitsu

1995-96
Speaking Out! A Continuum Cabaret
Celebrating Continuum at 30
The World of Kobo Abe

1994-95
Pulse Puerto Rican
Giya Kancheli
Takemitsu and Mayuzumi


1993-94
The Caucasus Connection (Music of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia)
Morton Feldman
György Kurtag

1992-93
Latin in America (Latin American composers in the US)
Ruth Crawford Seeger*
György Ligeti

1991-92
Nancarrow complete solo and chamber works
Leonid Hrabovsky
Stefan Wolpe

1990-91
Luciano Berio 65th Birthday
3 Pioneers: Grazyna Bacewicz, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Galina Ustvolskaya
Milton Babbitt 75th Birthday

1989-90
A Portrait of Virgil [Thomson]*
Magyar Muzsika
Henry Cowell*

1988-99
minimal and beyond
Leon Kirchner - 70th Birthday
Sofia Gubaidulina

1987-88
Nicolas [Slonimsky] at 93
John Cage - 75th Birthday
Valentin Silvestrov

1986-87
Luigi Dallapiccola*
Ives the Visionary
The New Ukrainians

1985-86
New from Israel
Continuum is 20!
Nancarrow with Nancarrow

1984-85
Rags and Riffs Reborn
Two at the Frontier: Robert Erickson, Lou Harrison
Mario Davidovsky

1983-84
George Crumb
Arvo Pärt
"Pierrot and His Time"

1982-83
Anton Webern Centennial*
"Pianos With..."
Erik Satie*

1981-82
Alfred Schnittke
Eastward Ho!
America's Composers Encounter the Orient
Stefan Wolpe*

1980-81
USSR: Unveiling the Avant-Garde
Debussy: the Final Years
Roger Sessions

1979-80
Shostakovich - late works*
Rice Bowls, Cans, Tympani, Gongs:
The Percussion Revolution in America
Alban Berg*

1978-79
Virgil Thomson
America's Architects of Musical Space
Béla Bartók - the Late Years*

1977-78
Igor Stravinsky*
50 Years Ago: the NY Avant-Garde in the 1920s
Olivier Messiaen

1976-77
Shostakovich: late works
Leon Kirchner
Henry Cowell*

1975-76
Carl Ruggles
Milton Babbitt
Percy Grainger

1974-75
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Maurice Ravel
Luciano Berio

1973-74
Erik Satie1974
Aaron Copland
Arnold Schoenberg*

1972-73
Roger Sessions
John Cage
Edgard Varèse

1971-72
Stefan Wolpe*
Scott Joplin
Darius Milhaud

1971
Igor Stravinsky
Paul Hindemith
Elliott Carter

1969-70
Charles Ives
Luigi Dallapiccola
Alban Berg

1968-69
Claude Debussy: Late Works
Henry Cowell
Béla Bartók

1967-68
Stefan Wolpe
Arnold Schoenberg


1966-67
Anton Webern

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