Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
In a New York University lecture hall, business school students poked at iPads and iPhones to produce short melodic loops through speakers. A few feet away, a small group of musicians about the same age played along in a performance of Terry Riley’s Minimalist masterpiece “In C.”
Members of the Declassified, a new collective of
young classical musicians, rehearsing ahead of the group’s debut week of
performances.
In a New York University lecture hall, business school students poked at iPads and iPhones to produce short melodic loops through speakers. A few feet away, a small group of musicians about the same age played along in a performance of Terry Riley’s Minimalist masterpiece “In C.”
It was part research
project, part interactive demonstration and part experiment, but mostly it was
the inaugural event this week for the introduction of a new performing group
called the Declassified, the latest example of young classical musicians
banding together to figure out a future on their own amid a fraying and
fragmenting performance world.
The 46-member collective
plans to give chamber music concerts in various formations. But it mainly wants
to establish residencies for weeks at a time at universities, conservatories
and just about anywhere else. Performing would be only part of a menu of
teaching, master classes and projects that bring audience members closer to
performers.
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