Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100, at St. Michael’s Church (Site)
Friday September 11, 7:00 pm - Saturday November 21, 10:00 pm
$34 – $258
Experience the pioneering sounds of the New York School through visionary performances that continue to reshape how we listen.
Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 is a citywide festival celebrating the centennial birthdays of New York School pioneers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. Across seventeen concerts, talks, and special events, the festival brings together leading performers from the contemporary music community to explore two composers whose revolutionary ideas transformed the landscape of twentieth-century music.
The heart of the festival is a 10-concert series at St. Michael’s Church, featuring landmark works including Piano and String Quartet, Trio, Three Voices, For John Cage, String Quartet No. 2, and more. A 10-Day Festival Pass is available for admission to all St. Michael’s concerts.
Additional performances and special events take place throughout New York City. Explore the complete festival schedule through these links.:
Events at St. Michael’s
Friday, September 11
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet with new choreography by Annie Nikunen
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Orange Road Quartet and Matt Schultheis perform one of Feldman’s most haunting late masterpieces, Piano and String Quartet is paired with new choreography by Annie Nikunen.
Saturday, September 12
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Morton Feldman: Trio
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Often regarded as one of the towering achievements of twentieth-century chamber music, Trio immerses listeners in Feldman’s expanded sense of time and form. Slowly evolving textures move beyond narrative towards fleeting sensations of memories, moments of deja vu, and misremembering.
Saturday, October 24
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Numerous Voices and Apmonia String Quartet
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
A conversation across generations, this program pairs Negar Soley’s Numerous Voices—a meditation on multiplicity, memory, and the expressive possibilities of the human voice—with Earle Brown’s groundbreaking String Quartet, a work that reimagines the quartet through openness, spontaneity, and performer agency.
Thursday, November 5
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Three Voices by Morton Feldman
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Nina Guo performs Feldman’s hypnotic masterpiece for three sopranos transforms repetition into a subtly shifting monumentality. Dedicated to the memory of painter Philip Guston, the work reflects Feldman’s lifelong dialogue with the Abstract Expressionists.
Friday, November 6
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
BlackBox Ensemble and WIMIN perform Feldman’sViola in My Life I-III and György Kurtág’s Hommage à R. Sch.
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Besides celebrating the centennials of Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, this festival also marks the 100th birthday of György Kurtág. This program pairs Feldman’s deeply personal series, Viola in My Life I-III with Kurtág’s haunting Hommage à R. Sch., bringing together two composers who transformed the smallest of musical gestures into expansive worlds.
Saturday, November 7
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Chamber works by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, and Steven Swartz
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Celebrating three generations of experimental music, this program highlights Earle Brown’s pioneering open-form compositions alongside works by Christian Wolff and Steven Swartz.
Thursday, November 12
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
For John Cage by Morton Feldman
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Composed as a tribute to his lifelong friend, For John Cage is among Feldman’s final and most expansive works. Its vast musical canvas honors a friendship that fundamentally reshaped twentieth-century music through its interrogation of sound, silence, and its relationship to the world.
Friday, November 13
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
Morton Feldman & Kurt Weill
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Anthony Coleman brings together two seemingly distant musical worlds, revealing unexpected connections between Weill’s theatrical immediacy and Feldman’s luminous restraint. The result is a program that reframes both composers through fresh and surprising perspectives.
Friday, November 20
Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM
BlackBox Ensemble performs chamber works by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown
St. Michael’s Church, New York, NY
Closing the festival, this program celebrates the enduring friendship between Feldman and Brown through chamber works that reveal two distinct yet deeply connected artistic voices. Together they embody the spirit of experimentation that defined the New York School.