The music mounted gradually for just over 45 minutes, the players working in loose tandem to reach each new peak, then subsiding to regroup.
Through most of the piece, Mr. Kang sat there silently, adding manically strummed viola only as the music mounted toward its quietly ecstatic conclusion.
Three concerts presented over the weekend were emblematic of this change: the Flux Quartet, an excellent ensemble exclusively associated with new music, mounted an excursion into the works of Morton Feldman.
While an aforementioned group, also carved into my music Mount Rushmore are scattered about Nos.
The music of Mount Neboh attracts visitors from around the world.
In January, Juilliard honored the so-called "grandfather of American music" by mounting a weeklong festival, with "Three Places" on opening night.
In 2014, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group mounted the first performance of David Lang's Crowd Out, a piece for 1,000 voices of all levels of ability.
For "Archway" — commissioned by NPR Music and mounted in collaboration with the New York City Department of Transportation, the Dumbo Improvement District, the PAN_ACT Festival and the Internet radio station Q2 — Mr. Keszler and a scissor-lift operator started work at dawn.
But on Wednesday evening, as that series hit its climax with the Ninth Symphony, the plucky little Clarion Music Society mounted a significant challenge with a Beethoven concert of its own at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue.
Each year it gives more than a quarter of a million to Aldeburgh Music, which mounts the Aldeburgh festival, as well as around £60,000 towards commissions for living composers.
There's still the site-specific local detail, and a great charm, but the music has mounted in intensity, as if to suggest this is someone who knows precisely where they are heading.
