Thank you. And of course, things civilly, really inefficient and for all the hard work of getting this together. Also through people. These would be things that made that possible. Geraldine R and on the new collection Mario episode throughout the chapter foundational. And a lovely people who are transitioning to give me a nice chunk of change to spend some time thinking about this as you experience it. The Rothko Chapel yesterday was an extraordinary, perhaps like being inside of that volcano, wherever it likes and power for tax at all. In silence. Dr. Martin, old hour or Houston, the art collector and patron describe the premier composition Rothko chapel on April ninth, 1972. Critics to describe a deeply affecting events one Kong and quote a series expression of tragic emotion, unquote. Such an emotional intensities have since its opening onto the space in which felons composition was named and in which it was first performed. In my talk today, I'll treat the premiere of Goffman's Rothko Chapel as a case study through which we might document of the aesthetic production of emotion in late modernism and trace the uses to which it is. My approach treats phones performance as a network, mobilizing specific representations, publics, and ideologies. More specifically, I'm interested in the role of phones music plays in negotiating meetings for the chapel. As all things have low or later, both John Anthony de minimis sought to control meaning it works and projects the Commission. And it is within their system of representation that I'll consider. Fountains music. Marketing will not focus on the buy now rather well-known story of the Rothko Chapel origin already documented by Susan J. Barnes and children. Instead, I'll focus on the history. John and dominant in support of Morton Feldman felt that it was a close friend of Rothko and is today, if it goes, are known for his monumental works with extremely quiet and length, as well as repetitive fragmentation. The David units were from the 1950s, important patrons of the arts in Houston, as well as New York City in Paris, France. There fortunately, nasa success of the oil technology company Schlumberger, which became a major international corporation over the second half of the 20th century. Prior to meeting the data deals in 1966, problems was a struggling composer, more popular in Europe than in his hometown of New York City. The Davidson's offers of performance is residencies, lectures and commissions, events. They're deep interested in phones music. And much to raise his profile in the United States that anybody has heard it and felt music deep resonances with their own aesthetic. Some limits, similarities they encouraged and shape throughout their patronage relationship, which lasted well into the 1970s. Part 1 of this talk will detail the beginnings of fellow and the deaminase association documented earlier used to which is music was put Part two documents, the conditioning of felons music for the Rothko Chapel in connection with photons friendship too, with Mark Rothko, as well as his brief intense relationship with the violist Karen films. The third and final part of my talk will document the first performance of Rothko Chapel and its aftermath. And we'll show how about the minimalist as anthropologists, panels, smart and skull, shape and reception and use the felt needs music before chapel. It is my larger argument that films music negotiated to starkly different understandings and rough as Chapel paintings. The first understanding is wrong because he desired to create paintings that could not be looked at that were too close to the tragedy of human existence to be born or viewers. The second is Dominic Nielsen. She wrote of the paintings you guys have more unquote, embracing us without closing us. And these were feeling suitable to the larger ecumenical mission of love and truth that she's over the chocolate would inspire. This is certainly contrary to Rothko's understanding of truth, which was more akin to that they've done in Frederick Nietzsche, that a shot at ten, it is dielectric of repulsion and attraction. And I felt in his writings and music for the child attends aws. And perhaps did with a view to these conflicting sense of like you're the problem of interpreting the chapel as a problem of managing affective experience created by a problem that continues to this day has been written about by people like James opens. Before we get any Earnest note on my terminology is an order. Throughout this talk for up to two words is frequently. One is effect and the other is utility. By largely emotion. The limited embodied sensations arising from RPI in the world affects our unavoidably and deeply subjective. Yeah, I think these historical traces of what and how they got going on in the world. Attention to. There's directly on recent debates it in musicology, particularly those of the so-called presence and hermeneutics. I am interested in drastic experiences at least for presence. But unlike heroin and unwilling to disavow interpretation and hermeneutics as tools to uncover the uses to which these graphics are put. This brings me to the second keyword utility. Simply put, I'm interested in how music is used, by whom and for what enters. Musicologists have increasingly attended to utility in the last decade. Particularly you can pass a piece of work of the so-called public utility of music inferences Third Republic, to suss out the unity or utility of felt 16 experimental and abstract music. I offer a close-up analysis of the day, millions patronage aesthetics that is indebted to the sense of utility used by music sociologists in his work was intended to them ritualistic aspects and these were listening and then finally effects. I was particularly interested in understanding music's use in the production effect. He's also, it sends it to the material of channels through which feeling flows, aesthetic and otherwise. Music is as agile and it's really the art of mediation itself. And as such, performance becomes an exemplary laboratory for understanding how social life is composed in microcosm. All detail, both what the damage was felt in Feldman is music and how to use it within their cultural program, you're used to. Fellow recounted the chain of events that brought him to the attention of his future patrons in April 1966, quote, It was quite a party. The dividend yields the premier who was coming to require graphing my summers place for the balance sheet company was the occasion. I never heard of the day videos until that evening. Though I was the composer reverse of our space. Most of the guests didn't know that. I don't even think Balanchine, you've either. So anonymous button, I'm happy. I quickly drinking is to love him glasses of champagne and started down along to the austerities, about six steps about the lending, I lost my balance naturally and with a full glass in hand, gliding the rest of the way. Without me, I only wanted to almost any notice this tour de force. You walked over to me and said, I quote, anyway, you can do that. I have to know in quotes because John Deere video a friendship quickly through them from June through the beginning of August of 1966. Thousand that weekly with either John or dominant activity on you also exposed to old and new music, he notes in his date book from that year, the recording see lens that music by being on the show, CPE Bach as well as Karlheinz Stockhausen. For us. It found the desired abroad and they seem to be patrons musical horizons on matters of visual arts. They were like lines. Hello, fellow traveler with New York City's abstract expressionists since the late 1940s. He was especially close to Jackson *******, Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning and brands, of course, Mark Rothko. Thought music was closely associated with abstract expressionism, aesthetics, and services soundtrack for documentary films on both polar. And this excerpt from executing documentary from 1963 gives this hasn't half of its music and asked by painting juxtaposed and it has affected atmospheres is music was used to create ooh, ooh. Winning documentaries. Something that stretch and stage, manipulate it ahead of time. So bizarre to cutting something as well to get anymore as a war. Thanks, actual opinions, video phones, more delicate shots, austere, Tamar and focus our attention on you can use gestures. It might be beautiful, filaments are creepy. But the film had it delivers a summary of an abstract expressionism aesthetics and their genealogy to Canadian felt in the place of most importance in gesture, action and feeling. Decoding slot to get a glimpse of what he called content. And meaningful gestures are capable of conveying flashed feeling or insight. Is that like I mentioned in the study, were Feldman called abstract experience. This is similar in some respects to the romantic, sublime and abstract a superior borders, religious sensation. Proper circumstances such as a rough childhood. It crosses the line into sort of inevitable spiritual. Artists like Feldman indicating also drew upon History 1 and another portion of the film to de Kooning references directly on that it was not an informer exert. And that industry is modern primitivism countering criticisms of his paintings. But you see a detail. Here. De Kooning places his work as part of the image of the woman throughout all the ages and stretching back to ancient Mesopotamian fertility figures. Here reminds us of the appeal of antiquity and mythology as an imagined source of primeval cow accessible to, as well as musicians. The primitiveness, antecedents of abstraction were exploited by roth. Well, the valorization and indeed fetishizing of the unfortunately named primitive had a lot of it, has a long history of Euro-American modernism, inclusive of a surrealist painters as well as Igor Stravinsky, fantasy land, and Torres mu as primitive as music 2019, 2020. That such primitive as retention is persisted until late 20th century with abstract expressionism does, as I said, with centrality, immutability, and continued use foams, steeping political and aesthetic planet into our friends, John Dominic to me, almost similar attitudes for non-western art practice. What's in there I love it says called the sinicization of ethnicity. That is a transformation of culturally specific objects are colonized people or particularly of Africa into objects. Doubt. They both collection structure on the equivalence of surrealism, abstract expressionism, and ritualized objects as long colonized people, as well as Greek and Roman sculpture. It is in many ways still important part of the deal. The center is the recent body and fragments show from the dielectric last year. It's an indication that the tameness and target it opens music and individualism interpreted Feldman music through this ideology. But in 1966, Data Nielsen grown close enough for him to be, to join in the planning of an exhibition organized by dominant and Neil mentioned the University of St. Thomas, where the images were patrons titled six painters to show gathered works by Piet Mondrian, Jackson *******, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, and provided us an account of the first leaders show many of these artists in Houston. Father's role in exhibition was threefold. He learned the three costume dramas for display, luxury on the painters and gave concerts off his music. Fathers lectures and concerts happened in March 1967 and respectful and interested coverage with art and music critics. Influenced by the broader political discourse in the 1960s, the dividend anesthetic left its imprint on the six pictures show. Press materials prepared by the name of staff emphasize the abstract and supposedly primitivism qualities of phones music. Their press releases frame problems about a league with quotes taken from these are critic Alfred Einstein or offer Frankenstein, excuse me. Different person retired and Frankenstein is quoted as saying, have Ellen's quote, results have a final elemental in tennis. And it's her own power like that avenue of other music. And hence an analogy to his work as difficult to find as with modern painting, you feel that Feldman has gone back to the large primitive first of his art. He brings his face to face with something magnificently primeval it and our stones feathered later in his life. Recall this tendency of critics and visitors to interpret is abstraction as primitivism. Problems posed many reviews. I gotta talk about the primeval elements and then use it. A lot of people seem to hear through a simple sound, a pluck, as something coming from some kind of primeval balk. There must be something there, maybe Freud and maybe don't really have something there, that collective unconscious, the more instinctual life, unquote. Suppose you're using primitive as resonated with Anthony Daniels static in the introduction to 960 to show off her and John's collection of tribal art. She said their works were quote, call primitive for want of a better name in quotes. And she described it as the most unselfconscious art that ever was. And different building their names in the child's with humanity there plunges into the depths of the unconscious and good reference of a Feldman and Tim and yield to the unconscious, mark their comments as extensions of modernist understandings of non-western art. As I'm closer to bear, or perhaps a more authentic humanity. Supposedly authentic expression was accessible through art like abstract expressionism that reference mythic symbols drawn from a collective unconscious. This is a large influence on *******'s paintings. Or law Coleman's music emerged from intuition and what felt called a quote, unpremeditated emotional encounter and quote reviews, it follows a Thomas Congress in March of 1967, noted with the intuitive qualities of the performances, as well as the mythic resonances. And it sounds critics and homes and Carl Cunningham signal to single out phones piece the swallows Asanga for particular attention. Here's an excerpt of that piece, as is from a 2008 performance of the music festival. Okay. Hello, It's both Iliad or composition, one of which pitches, performing forces and dynamics are specified, and it's for chorus and orchestra and enthralled to be very soft, but the durations are left to the decision of the performers. The results of the density of sound in which linear compositional time is dispensed with in favor of a wash of terrorism. It is luxury of St. Thomas, Tobin suggests that the service treaties compositions as what he called environments without traditional expectations, reasonable metric form is not a fixture is music, but an activity through which the pieces unique, unreadable sheet emergence. Critic Cunningham describe it as a quote, a tonal realization in the class principle of existentialism, of actually not planning an action of leave it you're not looking for you leap and quote, and holes. On the other hand, her quote, strangely listings and self-awareness as Ulysses sirens felt that was broken away. Some of the limitations of the conventional score as artists have broken out of the conventional picture plane, part unquote. Developments music afforded interpretations invoking existentialism, myth and modernist painting minutes possibilities there to the 10000 units and synthesized the emotional, aesthetic and historical lineages that shape it, diminishes taste and the patronage activities. In the month following Feldman St. Thomas residency dominant in a row to express our gratitude and at the outcome. She was a fellow unquote. What you have done for Houston with this exhibition and with your presence cannot be expressed in words. You have shaken, easy to see and hear. And if that's not been seen and heard before, the echo is still vibrating in our ears and hearts. I'm really grateful to you and always will be. And what someone's using provide a shot of experience and awakening at him and David deal with her Catholic moderns background, might have understood it as revelation. Thumb also noted as St. Thomas lecture has spiritual possibilities with his musical atmospheres. Quote, app startup experience is really far closer to the religious. He wrote, deals with the same mystery. Really react with whatever you choose to call it. Good. With such a set of correspondence is established within is important. I felt that continued into the following year and beyond. And April of 1968, 12 and arrange them to me or if its composition pilot first principles appropriately at the San Francisco Museum of Art. The event is sponsored by the name and we've done it at eight shares of stock to the museum. It's a fun concert and a generalist reception. In the years following the six painter shown at the University of St. Thomas, or continue their patronage of the institution and move forward with plans for campus chapel. In 1964, Dominican Jon M and E condition a suite of paintings from felt close friend Mark Rothko to decorate a future chapter with University. From 1965 to 67, Rothko painted a series of 14 dark canvases ranging and heated from darkest black to more solid tones of red, red, or purple. Over his career often have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the conditions in which his paintings were exhibited in the rhythms of dominant viewer's experience and be free of distraction of other paintings. Canvas is we're in the words of felt, following quotable Douglas, confrontation with reality and quote, that should be given their own physical setting to maximize their impact. The reality that Rothko imagine, the chaos of existence and the human fear of death. Reading in the 1940s, Rocco put forth his own conception of human universality and primitive collectivity. Well, let us just briefly state that pain and frustration and fear of death seems to be the constant binder between human beings and quote, and going further, quote, it is tragic element that we seek to achieve a generalization of human emotion, unquote. He also understood tragic emotion as a vestige of Christian myth in which suffering is the means of salvation. Salvation and Robert did not believe in Rothko's desire for complete aesthetic environments are attracted to the de minimis condition and the uses paintings within the Catholic chapel at the University of St. Thomas. However, this specifically Catholic character of the chapel is lost once the DNA has divested from St. Thomas and re-imagine to the child as a space for reflection and ecumenical dialogue. The child was erected there blocks from the St. Thomas canvas and dedicated in February 1971. It became the nominee, David, in his words, no man's land of God for queer people, all faiths and hood. As such, the Rothko Chapel became the clearest expression of the day meals aesthetic and their use of modernist art for spiritual contemplation. And her inaugural addresses the chapel. She directly the donee dividend directly connected aesthetic appreciation to her goals for religious dialogue. Saying that quote, and as we do receptivity indispensable in art is also the attitude necessary for humans. To this end, quote. The Delia shaping of the child has aesthetic of humanism exists an uneasy relationship with the tragic dimensions of Rothko's thought. Confronting viewers with reality was for Rothko desire to force the viewers to look away, to reveal truth of the human condition that would be too overwhelming to equal an essentialist enjoyment of art. As a de minimis wanted Rothko's painting to effect a spiritual embraced by God instead of absorption into chaos, sees a drastic reinterpretation of the painters work. And yet the gulf between the day videos and Rothko's painting was an error. Earlier lectures and performances of the University of St. Thomas, I pointed out the commonalities between various forms of modernism is music to my progenitor, or a push mower between Tiny Tim knows desire for awakening, aesthetic experience, and Rothman's dreadful even object. And then unpublished lecture, lecture fragment, most likely from the timer on rough because death and perhaps written for delivery in the chapel felt with imagines how a philosophical reconciliation between the patron and teacher might be affected. His texts begins at a certain moment in the late 1940s in New York, the artistic ground beneath us being into travel. And of course these are the austere is Feldman and the other abstract expressionists. Most of our values and notions, ideas of procedures in heart were in truth, promulgated beneath our feet to reach safe around at such a time when I was applying extremely high, one of those who survived the time I was Mark Rothko and quote from recast Rothko's tragedy as a salvation. The narrative, one of which comes from the aforementioned, it will nonetheless confrontation with reality. The thumb goes on to recapitulate an existentialist focus on action that he emphasized in his earlier lectures. Rothko's documentation and felons words has nothing to do with modernity, with technical innovation. It has nothing to do with preconceived aesthetic considerations. Such personal feelings do not enter. There was no choice. There is no time the Gestapo was coming up the stairs. It is this reflex, this decision to save himself, that Rothko has left us on these walls. It's us versus what? Rothko slot or something small and would lead me to think that this was the lecture he gave, the first performance of Rothko Chapel. I haven't been able to document that further, but it seems this Tetris for in a later lecture fellow, remember visiting Rothko, at least this in his studio 1960's, Chapel paintings were created. The Composer recall a quote, I meet him for lunch and you just can't leave the **** thing. He'd always say all the time, who was actually his song is if there is, if there, I think it's there, that's what happens when we work abstractly. You gotta pray because you can't get there. Make against familiar hasn't both ways honors the tear and agonizing struggle with Rothko saw as a universal human experience while also computing spiritual motivation to abstract work itself. Phones version of Rothko scenes project sees his project as one of personal salvation, which wasn't amenable to the Davidson's Catholic, etc. Currently, fellows was powerful intervention into the history of the child's interpretations. Candidate is music written for the space that David, newest edition fellow at around the time of the child's dedication and 50 words. In 1971, which he attended here in Houston talk or they marched to continue planning the piece. It was, however, not the first artistic response. Feldman had to work with death. Soon after the painters suicide in 1970, Southern begun work on musical memorial for his friend sketches where he's kind of for Mark Rothko. As you can see the sketch here, projection sketches, rupees for Mark Rothko, survive and Morton Feldman collection of Paul's off their foundation in Basel, Switzerland. Discussion. There is no relationship to rough travel, but it does give us a thumbs up thumbs early reaction to the loss of his friend and provides a sense of an important shift in his compositional style. A few features in the sketch I'm worth noting. First is the text at the bottom of the page. And you can see it here like as a pattern. And you see that transition like this. A passing shadow is the quote here, is a text wrought with meaning for the composer spiritually and musically. But Linus from the third part of the Talmud in a full passage reads, quote, Life is a passing shot. Say the scriptures, the shadow tower or a tree, the shadow which prevails for a time? No, even as the shadow of a bird and its flight with passive from our site and neither are shadow. Her name's unquote folder that's used in the text in two sections of his 1963 compositional cycle type of vertical thoughts and style. It resembles the music from decoding. Further if further sparseness during moments of individuated sound following through one after another. So there was perhaps drawn to the tax doesn't rail or perhaps return to the taxes in mourning for his friend who was also raised and observe and do the last adulthood. Some musical features of the piece, however, became the basis for another composition, also, more for lost friend. Feldman uses the major third, G, E-flat ostinato and the flute, and she lost on the top of the page, as well as the core of the Toulmin quotation here, right there. There's the one on the top right. Complex. I can just say that's the court that he uses in this other piece. He uses those two, has two elements in his piece. Impressive, died last week AND, and NOT address was felons piano teacher as a child. Here's another one. Feldman changed titles as he had yet to be offer the Rothko Chapel condition when an atom has completed the organs. Rothko chapel, however, bears a much closer relationship to another series of compositions also began in 1970 titled the viola in my life. The only extended sketches or Rothko Chapel were found in a manuscript. In the manuscript sketches for the viola, my life for a concerto for viola and orchestra from 1971. And they appear at the very end after this with other parts of the sketches with your life for a fair copy him and he sort of starts doing sketches for Rothko Chapel. And it has these little figures of the oldest genre on through to apparently the actual edges worthy of my life were given away by Feldman to some woman that he was having romantic interest and the time and those edges are lost. So soon after receiving condition, Feldman remark to music printer called Cunningham equal to castes pieces. And he says, I'm quoting now, I found a viola. More specifically the violist in someone's life was at Julliard trained student of Walter triangular named Karen Phillips. Fellow had nonetheless at a music festival, I think University of Hawaii. And again, the cycle for her condition from the London-based PRO players. Thumb instead of Phillips playing the quote, she has a rental, rental plant them too. So very, very rare when she plays attribute, it means it input. Along with the four parts of the viola in my life, someone composed of Rothko Chapel, especially for Forbes. In addition to the commission and the dominance, also gave them an access to their state. And Paul PWA, France into the spring of 1971, Feldman wrote occasional updates through his patrons as well as his friend, so on and so on, so on to public relations for that. Anybody else with her company, with her small. And they don't want to work for the dignity of foundation. Problems. Others are filled with his usual kind of witticisms and as well as in your midst of 2010 and yields and on. What's interesting is that his description of the emotional chairman and his music is taking in the early 1970s and a letter from March to swallow, unquote, working 10 hours a day off by piece, need an section and everything else including the ending and what an ending it is, you're going to have to mop up all the tiers line of the child. This ending will say no more, just bring your handkerchief. It's not say that the emotional recognition is, well, it affects the tear them as input. And similarly to the David yields he wrote on May 4th, quote to the Rothko Chapel is finished. All I can say about it is that when I was composing gerunds last solo towards the end, and then the chorus begins to sing, Rothko us chords with my eyes filled with tears. Emotional obligation as phone calls that became his main concern in this very stage of his compositional career. It is musical proximal. In 1972 and 1973, fellows interested in what he called the illusion of feeling. A name he gave, gave to his compositions, which seem to be marked by both SWOT, nostalgia. Or immunity, as well as a strong emotional occasion. He describe that after the fact and unpublished will actually give suny Buffalo in 1973 and he started with this. It appears that there is new period on short-lived from 1978 until 1972, beginning with Matt address, asked me get 90 and then the viola in my life, right into Rothko Chapel, immediately follow up on the roof Furstenberg, and then ending with the composition, all three clarinets. Piano. After the three clarinet piece, I was with the romantics called Lost, ended what I call the collusion of feeling a four again and the conclusion of art that has ever been back to a more abstract, is it less detailed, still precisely notated with another big change is longer, larger works. And put a clearer sense of the kind of feeling, feeling Feldman wants to vote. I'm reasonably note that of all the pieces he mentions, not unrest and Rothko chapel, as well as another paper I argue that three parent-child piano was also a moral case that obscures or they're all ology is the numbering deceased friends. The yellow one life cycle also run out of deep feeling, which was his newfound affection for the lowest Philips with whom he was romantically involved for a time. Unfortunately, the total voltage after his music from this period of mourning punctured by sudden violent intensities that rupture the musical fabric. As a listener, I heard attention between a decay sonorous landscape in a concrete goals to get on with something that attempt by the music to coalesce, get it moving. These impulses or prospect a jarring and gestures that fractured otherwise delegate roles. One extra from the viola and my life number 4 will serve as an example with these ruptures. But what I'm really interested in these kinds of moments and solvents, music is it something traumatic happens with a huge orchestral crescendo and they have no effect on the rest of the piece. They just come out of nowhere and they fade back into nothing. And so that's what I mean by rupture or otherwise sentence was kind of float along. But then you have these dramatic elements that just don't really seem to have any sort of repercussions with recipes. And to understand the peculiarities of fractures is important to know that fathers music previously marked by seeing or quieter since the 1950s, as soft as possible is the instruction performance of his music and thorns ideal performance is hover on the edge of ability. He cultivated what they call flat services with a minimum of contrast, exemplified by both the music de Kooning I play are there as well as, as follows, a song on the scene earlier. What do you call your art period versus more rupture and music like in real life. So this thoughtless and genders and affective responses and listeners, one valid responses, frustration with the music that seems directionless, floating and it's quiet enough, literally an unreasonable, another response and one that I would like to encourage the census, the music's quiet intensity can draw on into a diffuse field of unique sounds. Saturday, ask them to forces husband's music, particularly the illusion of feeling superior, comes precisely if the fragile relationships that emerge. And it is all within these feasible landscapes. And usually I hear this disillusion as it was being very melancholic the prior month, which allomorphs there were similar compositional logic as the viewer in my life. Character looks at the other lines are sparse with melody, sometimes fragmentary, and an occasion get stuff up and repetition of a single musical gesture or part as the primary voice of the composition. The percussion lays down a simple foundation for Viola to emerge from, dissolve back into the core as illness rather than a Rothko asked, the singer sound closely juxtaposed pitches created in tone clusters whose cost is Thomas is softened by the registrar displacement of the distances across the vocal parts to give you a sense of accomplishment, place, and a female of peace. And what you hear is the course, including a long section, usually sustain a single harmony that goes on for about three minutes, but you only get very talented. And then what follows is a duet between, so this will print out the list. And the record of that obviously is the first reporting which features the Brexit singers as well as Karen Phillips on yellow. I described earlier this is a rupture or breakthrough, as well as sense of dynamism that I hear in films music of the early 1970s, inclusive the Rothko Chapel. And tactile then takes in his composition as well. Compositionally, Rothko Chapel is more radical than the therapies is, precisely because it seems so out of character. As you've heard in this excerpt, the predominant cell role of Rothko Chapel and the pieces, the inclusion of pieces conclusion, because it's surprising that neither music shifts to Tonal Harmony. This is the aforementioned section of costs, thousands eyes filled with tears. Here's the beginning of that section. You, maybe there's an ostinato and the vibraphone as well as the, well, there's that. In his depth of the recording, if he's Feldman identified the funnel view on Viola as a 2008. He was 15 years old. Prior to his performance in 1973, the University of Buffalo fellows quoting a saying that a quote, my intent was to recreate my own emotional life, bringing together a musical identify emotions, which occasionally and suddenly they emerge into the abstract experience which I felt I shared with rock. And quote, by placing the consonant modal material pieces then as willing, as well as giving us the first fully lyrical music of a piece. Not too much for steady pulse. Felt alone creates a dramatic arc that moves out of this abstract experience into the identify emotion, emotional, atmosphere through the blank here as brief nostalgia or wanting. It says, retreats from Rothko's world morning. With a score completed in May of 1971, Feldman Simone's want done anything to begin plans for the premiere felt lindsay Music. David, I understood it largely as a memorial for Rothko as how should describe it and letters invitation. Someone went further to give the event more spiritual attainments and described it as a secular service. And he said that it sounds have a rig of the synagogue. And the final viola mentally was as a croissant and drag, prominent his eyes, his own spiritual tradition as part of a musical that, even if that provision was represented rather abstractly, Feldman wrote a small quote, it seems to be more of a service that anything else for that, I need a few sermons and quote. He went else It's just a rough guess, friend, poet, standard units as well as the art critic dairy The asked to speak. At a time, the visitor of Art in America don't inconvenient over to discourage that, wanting to focus to be on someone's music instead of the intellectual jousting chief year and they become in the NFL and gave a brief introduction. And as Danielle wanted, the event ended on music. Videos together, I guess that included luminaries for the upper rungs of the art world. Houston society and government does included Alfred J. Bar, formerly at the Museum of Modern Art. Tom answered or the Guggenheim. I'm a hog. Tv show. John Cage and Brian are dirty and Nelson Rockefeller than reordering or millions or weakness of the number of these mentioned that actually attended. And i've, I found these mutations in Iraq which a Archives. Sure, we've actually showed up for the gig. And in his invitation to Giovanna Father John, They may have heard of as larger plan is for the chapel. Perhaps hope for Rockefeller's assistance with them. He wrote a book, clans or hatchling, chapel grounds, real-world center promoting dialogue between all religions. There's an emphasis on one religion and Christianity. The Christians would be, we'd been nothing but serious interest is so far US, Europe and the Near East End quote, the premier Roscoe child was then a larger amount of concern for us beyond memorial for Panama, Rothko or the service that felt natron. They hope to increase the visibility both of the chapel and its mission and the performance of fellow's music will make it both as aesthetic and spiritual orientation invisible. The mirror Bravo traveled took place on Sunday afternoon, April ninth, 1972. Due to the small capacity of the space hold him only about 200 was performed twice in succession, verses 33 and then a 415 mores for us than director of HIPAA, Corpus Christi Symphony conducted the performance. Veal is Katherine Phillips. Cache miss rate into Roche. We're joined by Virginia became who sang soprano solo and she has nodes minibuses, a former professor here at school. We'll evaluate previously performed with telnet into St. Helens, sorts of 1967. And the course was made out of 50 members of the Houston symphony. Both reviewers and huddles and Carl Cunningham as opposed to the AST and thoughtful reviews of the performance that emphasize the musical and visual analogies between Rothko's paintings and music. Coming from the quote on the subliminal pulsations of the changing Hughes found them useful corollary of the pulsating effect I felt ones work. And holes is review address directly the interpretative problem between Rothko's project vision of its virulence and dominant in annual celebrations. Embrace. Holmes wrote of the paintings, wrote of the pig, the pains and interpretive indeterminacy. Quote some things that are full of incident philosophical implications. Others find them for knitting or downright gloomy. Probably refer included. Others find them hard to understand. But Sunday afternoon they came alive and dialogue and unusual, kind, and good. For homes. A dialogue produce an effect in line for deaminase hopes for the chapel, quotes the word redo the beauty and mysticism and anguish. Southern lights, touch. Input. Know where's the dread them up to inspire problems down and kept the sense of Montauk struggle while also afford an effect, a disability and perhaps cutting hands reviews tended towards more musical description, but he singled out dialogue between the BGN and Philips for special attention. He describe it rather quizzically as quoting almost a Japanese feeling for carefully tranquility, unquote, Iran to articulate their particular pathos of their exchange. Quote, violist and soprano, intermittently drawn to moments of control, attention and tell them is to be open to her lips, to a single tell you to do grief. In the context of a word on bold, dramatic purpose, it would have gone unnoticed in phones. Do that eulogy insincere and expression of emotion. Hello, grief, melancholy and mysticism made sense of the dark hand. This is through less abstract and humane rotation and supported, and supported the story of a child, the child to tell jumping that I felt that the performance was quote, extraordinary low key tenants. And some of these are very religious music, unquote. He further elaborated on phones music, good relations with Chapel paintings, as well as Barnett Newman sculpture, the broken house, which stands reflecting pool in front of the channel. In response to Dr. Marc mold hours description of the performance as close to like being inside of death, okay, Wherever life and power in a vortex of law and silence. Video wrote quote, you found for the musical Morton Feldman powerful words which gives you a measure of motion. Here we are in Houston and we have the Rothko Chapel, the Varna novelist, and now the extraordinary musical Morton Feldman, three Jews. And what they had given us is deeply rooted in tradition. Yet, because universal. And I see those there, the sign, the sign of the destiny of the chapel. It's great, deeply rooted in the origins yet expressed in contemporary language which all understand and East, West End quote. I visit the start of this talk, the question of the day winnings relationship to non-western and so-called tribal art. What they understood as primitive displayed and John's response to Moldova as a reminder that their ideology was rooted in their early experiences with French Catholic modernism. That as that universalized culturally specific references and meanings. And similarly down to the larger hole there patronage products that are fostering a very modern humanism. What is particularly interesting is that is to see the medium performing the same job rotation of each of the artist commissioned Rothko, human and follow. He makes note of their ethnic and religious heritage given to their collective identity as three Jews. In order to see that heritage transcended into an art that would then be understood by all. Tell them to is the indication of felons music was no added to the data collection. And like Rothko's painting to be interpreted and managed by the patrons and their institutions. And indeed in the years following the dominant funder, the recording of Rothko Chapel when I put her there and they came out on Columbia Records as a condition of the finance and she secured rights to the recording, allowing to be played with little chapel and which indicated or plans to continue using photos music to shape the effect of that vowel sounds, the lineage and multiple expectation of his patrons making music that 3D girls as the larger project. And you've heard of universalizing, perhaps paradoxically zones and sign as polygons represent. Thank you. And that was long, I'm sorry. Most likely questions. If there are any questions or comments that I don't think so. I mean the following problems always possible. Obviously the insiders, it's hotter and so he is always affecting this. I knew then what I would like to speak about it. And so I don't think for him is that the pulmonic, in essence, the minutes he's definitely more inclined to, to play with. I guess he's interested after that experience being something that's religious. And I think he's, he's happier to be part of the reading. It'll redraw them and saying, I think it's his interpretation of I think it is it is it originally recorded? I think it's exactly what rothko thought. They were close as far as a half of us, doesn't it? Well, no, I had to me as a Catholic, she she was raised prospects when she marriage ultimately converted to Catholicism and was very much part of its color because of the Catholic revival that's happening in the 1930s, NyQuil 1920s and 1930s that was really built around a sort of progressive Catholicism isn't, that isn't rejecting engagement with the modern world. They are trying to find ways to use Contemporary Art, use contemporary aesthetics to develop a modern spirituality. And you see that individuals work with father. Mariana, remain spiritual advisor. Her edge on the piano, deflecting. He was very much of that conditioning people like, oh I forgot. The dignities is chapel and these others because of modern art by Catholics but for Catholic US. So that's reverse. That has really shaped in addition to everything else. It's got all the sort of problematic things that are happening with colonialism, for instance, with iTunes. So I mean, we're dealing also specifically, even though it, because the sort of catholic small seen cubism in places like the author chocolate. But still it's, it's, their Catholicism is never far from Answers was visible fairly frequently. The first films was togetherness and 72, I think the next one up in 1976. Dan and I'm an entrepreneur up the 1980s, it starts to be performed again and rather frequently in 1996. And it was even part of performance sponsored by the ANS and their medium in Houston back in I guess that was 2003, 2004. It's it's it's game over there and it actually wants to come here. This voltage, I had a miserable job performance in New York City, was traveling across the world, switched with the police. But as far as it's becoming all phones must perform propositions. It is. What is master? Bedroom? Thanks.