Last night at the Goethe Institut in Boston, Anne LaBerge and her daughter Diamanda La Berge Dramm played a really interesting program of "Stockhausen and Beyond" for Goethe's series New Music from Germany. The selection held together very nicely, duets bookended on each end by a solo (flute and then violin). Three of the pieces were world premieres written especially for Anne and Diamanda - by Natacha Diels, David Dramm, and my husband Jorrit Dijkstra.
Jorrit's piece "Expats" played on two worlds of sounds and speeds - reflecting the experience he, Anne, and Diamanda share (in different ways) of moving between the United States and the Netherlands.
Diamanda closed with an energetic, exquisitely detailed rendition of Luciano Berio's Sequenza VII.
It was really nice to get out, just two days after the Boston Marathon bombing, to hear some great music in the Back Bay.