Liam Battle returns to the CCS with a second unique lecture/recital. Here he will introduce the audience to Glissées, for solo cello, by Korean composer Isang Yun ( 1917-1995). This rarely- heard work for solo cello was written nearly 75 years ago! Isang Yun (1917-1995) was born in Duksan, Korea and became one of the world’s leading 20th-century Korean composers, living and working for the last 26 years of his life in Germany. As a composer, he is recognized as a mediator of East Asian and Western musical traditions— combining Western avant-garde techniques with techniques associated with traditional Korean music, including glissandi (sliding pitch). Yun’s favorite instrument was the cello. Glissées was written in 1970 and dedicated to the internationally-acclaimed avant-garde German cellist, Siegfried Palm.
Liam will discuss Yun’s interest in the conflict between the European style of writing for fixed pitches and the Korean “flexibility” pitch (a type of glissando). This prominent feature of Korean music is almost omnipresent throughout Glissées and makes for an interesting contrast to the Western world 12-tone technique, also present in this piece.
Isang Yun
Beyond music, Yun lived a highly dramatic and controversial political life as well. At the age of 50 he found himself imprisoned in South Korea on charges of high treason. After two years of international protest and intervention, Yun was released in 1969 to live in Germany, where he became a German citizen and taught composition in Berlin from 1970-85.
Liam Battle
Liam Battle is a cellist, curator and composer studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music who focuses heavily on the study and performance of contemporary classical music. Most of this work takes place via the Antigone Music Collective. Through the AMC, Liam regularly performs and curates modern music at nontraditional concert locations. The work of the AMC is dedicated to showing the importance of live modern classical music, creating social concert experiences, and putting the work of living composers in dialogue with great composers of the 20th century.
Tickets: $5 at the door only (no advance sales), free to CCS members and Judson residents
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