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In August, the Calder Foundation and Earle Brown Music Foundation staged a rare performance of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece as part of the TIME SPANS Festival. In 1966, Calder made the standing mobile Chef d’orchestre for Brown’s composition, which is performed here by the Talujon Percussion Quartet. Watch the complete performance: https://tinyurl.com/4wtwbyet [Video: Clip from a performance of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece in collaboration with TIME:SPANS Festival and the Earle Brown Foundation perf

The Calder Foundation and Earle Brown Music Foundation are thrilled to announce a performance of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece (1963–66), to be staged for the first time in New York City since 2016 as part of the TIME SPANS Festival. In this radical collaboration, Calder’s large-scale standing mobile Chef d’orchestre functions as both a conductor for Brown’s open-form composition and as the central instrument. Tickets are available for purchase at https://timespans.org. Sunday, 20 August 2023, at 7

The only theatrical production imagined entirely by Calder, Work in Progress was commissioned by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and premiered there in 1968. An artistic experiment drawn from ideas and concepts explored throughout his decades-long career, Work in Progress is a world of Calder’s own design. His “ballet without dancers” is full of moments simultaneously nuanced and unpredictable, including set pieces that psychedelically visualize the natural world, dynamic arabesques drawn by cycli