Mike Svoboda Quartet: Do you love Wagner?

with music by Richard Wagner and Mike Svoboda and texts by Thomas Mann, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Camille Saint-Saëns, Erik Satie, and Richard Wagner

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Mike Svoboda Ensemble: Die Bücher der Zeiten

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a "chamber oratorio" for three female voices, percussion, and trombone based on the monumental poem Die Bücher der Zeiten from Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)

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Mike Svoboda Trio: The Phonometrograph Erik Satie

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music from Erik Satie and Mike Svoboda, texts: Erik Satie with Anne-May Krüger (voice and barrel organ), Stefan Hussong (accordion and toy piano), Mike Svoboda (trombone and narration)

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Tierkreis

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two realizations of Karlheinz Stockhausen's beautiful "12 Melodies of the Zodiac" – one composed, one improvised – for five musicians

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Duo Hussong/Svoboda

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three duo programs with the accordion virtuoso Stefan Hussong -
works by Girolamo Frescobaldi and John Cage, Piazzolla, Albeniz, Berio, Hölszky, etc.

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