(Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen)

JUST RELEASED: The U.S. premiere of Friday Farewell has been added to the Karlheinz Stockhausen concert at this year’s White Light Festival on October 30 in Alice Tully Hall.

The audience arriving for the all-Stockhausen concert will be bathed in orange light (per the composer’s instructions) in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall, where they will hear the N.Y. premiere of the composer’s Friday Greeting. At the end of the evening, the orange glow returns for the U.S. premiere of the composer’s Friday Farewell. Both electronic works will be performed by sound projectionist Joe Drew of Analog Arts.

For the concert inside the Starr Theater, percussionist Stuart Gerber will perform Heaven’s Door, and Joe Drew will project Cosmic Pulses. A 700-pound door designed and built to the composer’s specifications by D.J. Betsill, a luthier based in Georgia, will be transported from Georgia to Alice Tully Hall for this performance.

(Read the entire press release here.)

JUST RELEASED: White Light Festival 2012 has been announced!

Highlights of the festival, which runs from October 18 to November 18, include:

- U.S. premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
- Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute
- N.Y. premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s Vertical Road
- Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ
- Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas
- Cosmic Pulses, all–Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew
- U.S. debut of the Latvian Radio Choir
- Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses
- Heiner Goebbels’ music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble
- Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 9

(Read the entire press release here.)