Looking Back (De-Mystifying New Music)

LOOKING BACK: The Feldman In My Life

2026 marks 100 years since the birth of American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, one of the true originals of American music. Feldman’s music asks its listeners to go beyond the conventions of musical form, the familiar vocabulary of tonality, and the expectations of duration to explore the space between sound and silence, music and noise, perhaps even attention and meditation. To observe this milestone, Fear No Music presents Looking Back: The Feldman In My Life, a very special evening featuring Feldman’s rarely performed epic masterpiece Piano and String Quartet. Beginning the performance are two miniatures, Five Movements for String Quartet by Anton Webern, and Feldman’s own The Viola in My Life 3.

For Looking Back DMN, Kenji Bunch and Monica Ohuchi perform and discuss Morton Feldman's The Viola in My Life no. 3.