Events & Calendars "To the Fullest: The Music of Julius Eastman and T.J. Anderson"

With works described as “minimal in form but maximal in effect,” composer and performer Julius Eastman spent his career challenging audiences. Eastman’s self-aware queerness and blackness fueled his often highly controversial-- in both title and performance --compositions. His involvement in both the “uptown” and the “downtown” music scenes during the mid-to-late 20th century has made it difficult to characterize and historicize him in the canon of American experimental music.

Mark DeVoto, professor emeritus of music at Tufts University, describes T.J. Anderson as having spent a long and distinguished career composing music reflecting a global awareness of human experience in the 20th century, synthesizing Eastern and Western classical traditions with the Black experience in America. His works reveal inspiration from a variety of classical styles ranging from Purcell to Alban Berg, and techniques and forms ranging from the serially rigorous to the freely improvisatory.

This event is free and open to the public.