A sublime encore for Morton Feldman, in Metro

Metro Philadelphia previewed American Sublime, our weeklong festival of Morton Feldman’s late music, with eight concerts of works from 1977 to 1987, most heard in Philadelphia for the first time. Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, compared hearing just one late Feldman piece to seeing only one of Monet’s Water Lilies. The festival’s centerpiece was the six-hour String Quartet No. 2, played by the Flux Quartet, with the JACK Quartet and Joan La Barbara singing Three Voices.

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