.png)
Demystifying Challenging Music
Perks/rewards available for those who donate to us until April 1 2025!
Watch highlights from our inaugural concert!
WHO ARE WE?
We are a group of musicians in New York committed to performing 20th and 21st century music and underperformed works of earlier centuries, with the aim of demystifying complex and challenging music to audiences, regardless of experience.
FANTASQUE?
In French, it refers to something that is whimsical, capricious, unusual, and unpredictable. Even though it is not commonly used in music, some composers have used it, such as Rossini, Chabrier, and Boulez. This word reflects what we are as a group: embracing the magic of the unexpected.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
THE SERIOUS AND THE ABSURD
May 9 2025, 7:30pm - The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
Can you hear these in the works, or, is there even a distinction between the two? Nonsense language, pure simplicity, chromatic music, you name it, there is always something to love for everyone!
Program:
Tyson Gholston Davis - Distances
Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No. 1
INTERMISSION
Arrangements of early music by Rusca, Ockeghem, and Josquin des Prez
Ligeti/arr. Howarth - Mysteries of the Macabre
PAST CONCERTS
ALL GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES
December 13 2024, 7:30pm - The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
Aller guten Dinge sind drei (All Good Things Come in Threes) is inscribed at the top of the score of Berg's Chamber Concerto. Naturally, all three composers of the 2nd Viennese School are represented in this concert: Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg.
