Friday, February 8, 2013
Honoring President Kennedy, this November Yellow Barn presents a program in which words, seeking to comprehend the complexities of that time, find illumination in the music of Olivier Messiaen and John Cage, and One Red Rose, a new work by Steven Mackey co-commissioned by Yellow Barn with the Nasher Sculpture Center and Carnegie Hall.
Steven Mackey offers the following description of his new work, with excerpts performed by the Brentano String Quartet: