First Fridays with Robert Black December 4, 2020

2020s final First Fridays with Robert Black featured composers David Lang and Tyson Davis. The program opened with David Langs i feel pretty, a 9minute, intense, relentless, inyourface, distortionheavy explosion. Its a punkhot tourdeforce. Tyson Davis miniature Tableau No. 5 followed with the more controlled heat of modernisms angular rhythms, crunchy dissonances, and dark melodies. The temperature comes down even further with the swank and suave grooves of David Langs snow falls i, ii, iii music which is both cool and cool.