ALEA III Concert, Boston

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Contact: 	Alexandros Kalogeras	
	617/353-3340
		
	March 7, 1995


PRESS RELEASE

BOSTON - ALEA III, the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Boston University,
Theodore Antoniou, Music Director, will present the annual

Millennium Project

on Saturday, March 25, 1995, at Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth
Avenue , Boston. 

Admission is free.

This year's Millennium Project is the fifth installment of ALEA III's
decade-long celebration of the closing millennium.  It consists of two events: 
 
The Symposium starting at 6:00 pm and the Millennium Concert at 8:00 
pm.   

The Symposium, at 6:00 pm is a panel discussion by musicians, historians,
and sch olars exploring historical, social, musical, and political
perspectives of the de cade 1940-1950:  music during and after the war
years.  What was music like durin g the second world war?  The war changed
the world in almost every aspect.  How w as music influenced?  What were
the changes the war brought to music?  The Sympos ium is coordinated and
chaired by Keith Botsford, writer and professor of Journal ism at Boston
University. 

The Millennium Concert, at 8:00 pm, is conducted by Theodore Antoniou and
include s the following works: 

Dmitri Shostakovich 	String Quartet #3, performed by the Leontovych String
			Qua rtet from Kiev. 

Aaron Copland		Appalachian Spring

Witold Lutoslawski	Variations 

and

Igor Stravinsky		Sonata for 2 Pianos, performed by 			
			Christoph Neidhofer and Anton Vishio
 		 	Piano Duo.


For more information please contact the ALEA III office, 
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.  
Tel/fax: (617) 353-3340.


ALEA III

Alea III is the contemporary music ensemble in residence at Boston
University, a group devoted to promoting, playing, and teaching music of
the twentieth century. Founded in 1978, Alea III is the third such group
organized by Music Director T heodore Antoniou.  The ensemble is
consistent with the music it embraces---flexib le in size, open to
experiment and to exploration.  Over the years, Alea III has offered
world-premiere opportunities for dozens of contemporary composers, often
under the composer's direction, and with extended program notes or
comments.  The group has performed over 650 works by more than 400
composers---most of them liv ing.  With its inspiration, dozens of other
contemporary groups have been formed,offering growing opportunity to young
composers and musicians to play and compre hend contemporary music. 

The Greek word alea taken from Homer, means "to wander."  In Latin, it
refers to "a die or dice used for playing at games of chance."  The term
aleatoric music in dicates music based upon the principles of
indeterminacy as evidenced by certain random and/or statistical procedures
of composition.  In regard to the ensemble, aleatoric is concerned with
the expression of a multiplicity of musical direction s, historical
styles, and performance practices.