Event Concerts and Performances Founder's Day: Emi Ferguson and Ruckus

Date and Location

Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress

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Musicians 
Emi Ferguson, flutes 
Doug Balliett, baroque bass + electric bass  
Adam Cockerham, theorbo + baroque guitar  
Elliot Figg, keyboards  
Paul Holmes Morton, baroque guitar  
Coleman Itzkoff, baroque cello  
Clay Zeller-Townson, baroque bassoon 

Celebrating the 160th birthday of our founding benefactor Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, acclaimed flutist Emi Ferguson and Ruckus perform an intriguing concert reimagining the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and György Ligeti. Dubbed “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Ruckus is a rollicking, shapeshifting Baroque group with a visceral and playful approach to early music. “Fly the Coop!,” its “blindingly impressive” (New York Times) first project with Ferguson, earned the number two spot on Billboard’s 2023 Classical chart for a joyous album of sonatas and preludes by J.S. Bach. In “By George!,” the artists bring together composers writing more than two hundred years apart, creating revelatory new arrangements for Ligeti’s “Musica Ricercata,” a monument of intricate textures and quixotic moods—stark, jaunty and mysterious—and virtuosic flute fantasias by Telemann.  

Preconcert Conversation with the Artists
6:30 pm, Whittall Pavilion

Featuring

  • Emi Ferguson

Schedule

Program 
GYÖRGY LIGETI 
Musica ricercata 

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN 
Fantasias, TWV 40: 2-13 

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