Time Regained

This concert showcases the musical partnership of Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) and Terry Riley (1935– ) through the lens of time-delay techniques.

It features the world premiere performance of Oliveros’s The C(s) for Once (1966) for flutes, voices, trumpets and tape delay system, followed by Riley’s Keyboard Study #1 (1965), Oliveros’s piano solo dedicated to Riley, A Trilling Piece for Terry (2015), and correlated works by James Tenney and J.S. Bach.

The program concludes with a performance using the digital version of Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System (designed by Oliveros, 1965–2016).

Program

• Runtime: 100 minutes
• The C(s) For Once (1966)
• Pauline Oliveros
• Flutes: Lydia Ding, Rachael Marseglia, Alex Smuda
• Trumpets: Fiona Walker, Corban Vogler, Wynn McWhirter
• Voices: Katherine Skovira, Claudia Hernandez, Ezra Borman
• Ross Rice, console operator
• The Musical Offering (1747)
• J.S. Bach
• Canon at the fifth modulating by whole step
• Chamber Ensembles students
• Keyboard Study One (1965)
• Terry Riley
• Matthew Goodheart, piano
• A Trilling Piece for Terry (2015)
• Pauline Oliveros
• Chrysi Nanou, piano
• The Great Beauty (2016)
• Terry Riley
• In celebration of the life of Pauline Oliveros
• Chrysi Nanou, piano
• For Twelve Strings (Rising) (1975)
• James Tenny
• Rensselaer Orchestra Strings
• Robert Whalen, conductor
• Sympoiesis (2024)
• Expanded Instrument Trio
• Michael Century, accordion
• Zach Layton, 17-string bass guitar
• Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola
• Expanded Instrument System
• Used by Special Permission, Pauline Oliveros Trust and Ministry of Måat