In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly ...

The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was ...

Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2 (1983) lasts roughly five hours, about as long as the average time taken to run a marathon. The Calder Quartet, who will perform this exceedingly quiet behemoth ...

New York's formidable Flux Quartet has made something of a specialty of Morton Feldman's terrifying six-hour String Quartet No. 2 (including a fine recording), so the group's new recording of the ...

Feldman’s String Quartet No 1 marked an important point of transition. The motivic tics of his late chamber music – key works such as Patterns in a Chromatic Field, For John Cage and Piano and String ...

At first, Will Anderson sat about 15 feet behind FLUX String Quartet founder and violinist Tom Chiu. Then he moved across from violinist Conrad Harris. Then he pulled over a second chair and stretched ...

The FLUX String Quartet, William & Mary’s Artist-in-Residence for 2010-11, will close out its academic-year concerts by performing Morton Feldman’s six-hour-long test of endurance and style, the ...

Pianist/composer and Guggenheim Fellow Amy Williams performs Triadic Memories, a solo piano piece composed by Morton Feldman in 1981. Triadic Memories was jointly dedicated to the classical pianists ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...