Cage: The Seasons (with readings of the writings of John Cage) (1947, 15)

Ives: Violin Sonata No. 4 ‘Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting’ (1916, 9)

Feldman: Intermissions (1950-53)

John Zorn: Cat O’ Nine Tails for string quartet (1988, 13)

Composers who occupied the front lines of their eras’ avant garde share this provocative program. It embraces everything from Charles Ives’ toe-tapping sonata with its hymn-tune quotations, through John Cage’s typically quirky dance score inspired by East Indian concepts of the seasons, to Morton Feldman’s compact, spare-textured piano miniatures, and John Zorn’s zany, cartoonish mash-up of blistering frenzy with snippets of kitschy dance rhythms.