local composer george flynn celebrates his 78th birthday sunday at the green mill

Local composer George Flynn celebrates his 78th birthdaySunday at the Green Mill

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Local composer George Flynn celebrates his 78th birthday Sunday at the Green Mill

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By Peter Margasak

on 01.16.15 at 04:30 PM

Every year about this time the venerable Chicago composer George Flynn celebrates his birthdaywith a Sunday afternoon concert at the Green Mill, and this year's event--marking his 78th year--doubles as a celebration of a strong new album of compositions performed by some of the city'sfinest players. (Flynn's actual birthday is January 21.) In fact, all of the musicians who appear onAmerican Forms (the latest in a superb series of albums released by Southport Records that collectthe composer's work) will be present to perform the four pieces on the album.

Flynn--a onetime Fluxus member--is that special breed of composer who comfortably reconcilestradition with new ideas. The album's stunning opening work, "Chicago Quartet"--performed byviolinist Robert Waters, violist Rami Solomonow, cellist Daniel Klinger, and pianist Amy Briggs--usesa traditional four-movement structure and relatively conventional instrumental techniques, butwithin that environment Flynn deftly uses motific fragments and lines that "disintegrate," as hewrites in his liner notes, to producer an utterly bracing piece of music. There are a pair of stunningsolo pieces: "Forms of Flight" for clarinet, performed by Cory Tiffin, and "Forms of Friction" forviola, performed by Doyle Armbrust. Both pieces were derived from cadenza sections for eachinstrument originally featured in Flynn's quartet piece, American Rest. You can hear "Forms ofFriction" below.

George Flynn, "Forms of Friction"

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The album concludes with a fantastic piece for string quartet called "American Enchantment" playedby the Spektral Quartet (the original lineup with violinist Aurelian Pederzoli, who recently left thegroup and was replaced by Clara Lyon). Flynn wrote the piece as a portrait that focuses on the moregentle and meditative side of the U.S., a contrast to his many works that excoriate the country's"violence toward peoples and nations." The event starts at 2 PM and the $5 cover includes a slice ofbirthday cake.

Tags: George Flynn, American Forms, classical music, Green Mill, Spektral Quartet, Doyle Armbrust,"Forms of Friction, " Cory Tiffin, Amy Briggs, Robert Waters, Rami Solomonow, Daniel Klinger,Audio, Image

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