Abstract
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's contemporary music theater piece Amerika provides the framework for our Opera Nova Concert, which focuses on 20th-century American composers. America's compositional landscape is filled with ingeniously crazy misfits who have developed stylistically highly independent of modern-era European compositional styles. In our Opera Nova project, they'll make an appearance: from non-conformist Charles Ives and influence-wielding Edgar Varèse to Conlon Nancarrow, whose virtuosic rattling studies for player pianos add a special twist to this concert.