Kerrytown Concert House presents the Ann Arbor-based contemporary ensemble
Brave New Works in an evening of quartet music on Saturday, February 9th
at 8:00 p.m.  at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor.  This concert is
included in the KCH Classics@Kerrytown series which is sponsored by the
Edward Surovell Company/Realtors and is supported by the Michigan Council
for Arts and Cultural Affairs.  It is the fourth in the Brave New Works
"Numbers Up" series.

The program includes:
1) The World Premiere of Tom Schnauber"s Finds for String Quartet, a
three-movement programmatic work about a musicologist and the pursuit
of a fleeting tune he encounters while hiking in the woods.

2) A set of character pieces by English twelve-tone and serialist composer
Humphrey Searle.  Fascinated by cats and unusual instrumental ensembles,
Searle takes both of these delights in true form in his Two Practical Cats,
a setting of TS Eliot's "Macavity:  The Mystery Cat" and "Growltiger's Last
Stand" written for narrator, flute, cello and guitar.

3) The second half of the concert takes a sober, yet poignant turn
with Olivier Messiaen"s evocative Quartet for the End of Time for violin,
clarinet, cello and piano.  Written in 1940 while Messiaen was interned
in a German prison camp, the Quartet was intended not to refer to his own
captivity, but to be a kind of musical extension of the Biblical account
of the Apocalypse, and to present the concept of the end of Time as the
end of the past and future and the beginning of eternity.

Performers on this concert include violinists Maria Sampen, Steve Miahky,
and Alejandra Urrutia, violist Tim Christie, cellists Andrea Yun and Katri
Ervamaa, flutist Emily Perryman, clarinetist Deborah Chodacki, guitarist
Matthew Ardizzone, pianist Winston Choi, and narrator Jennifer Goltz.

ABOUT BRAVE NEW WORKS:
Founded in 1997 by Christopher Froh, Chris Younghoon Kim and Eli Shapiro,
Brave New Works is an Ann Arbor-based performing organization dedicated to
the work of composers across the entire aesthetic spectrum.  Their mission
is to foster new music through creation and performance by working with and
on behalf of contemporary composers.  Brave New Works also seeks to expand
the audience for new music through performances, workshops and
collaborations with the arts.

Kerrytown Concert House is located at 415 North Fourth Avenue in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.  More information about this concert can be found online at
www.kerrytown.com/concerthouse Tickets $25 assigned rows 1-2; $15 assigned
rows 3-5; $10 general ($5 students).  Reservations suggested:  769-2999 or
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