New Music Series Continues to Inspire Thought

New Music New College continues to deepen the conversation about new music in our community. The program’s 15th season opened with the Brooklyn-based NOW Ensemble returning after its acclaimed performance in 2009. The five musicians — Alexandra Sopp, flute; Agnes Marchione, clarinet; Logan Coale, double bass; Mark Dancigers, electric guitar; and Aaron Wunsch, piano — performed in all six works, revealing remarkable powers of concentration and endurance. “All Together NOW,” a 2005 composition by Patrick Burke, is a mainstay of the group’s repertoire. Varying and interlocking rhythms, most often in repetitive loops, created a texture that seemed like the aural companion to a pointillist painting by Georges Seurat.