Alarm Will Sound, directed by Alan Pierson, center, played “1969,” a piece, with music by Luciano Berio, John Lennon and Karlheinz Stockhausen, at Zankel Hall on Thursday.
The work of Alarm Will Sound, a vibrant, technically dazzling new-music ensemble, listeners have grown accustomed to encountering the amazing, the amusing and, occasionally, the near-impossible. A musical event called "1969"which the group presented for a capacity audience at Zankel Hall on Thursday night, had all those qualities and more. So what if it was based on what is probably a misremembered bit of history?
Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
Jon Patrick Walker, center, as John Lennon, and David Chandler, left, as the composer Luciano Berio at Zankel Hall on Thursday.
A two-act, two-hour dramatized piece that at times resembled both an earnest revue and a flamboyant artistic gumbo, “1969” is built around a fascinating notion: a planned meeting between the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the iconoclastic Beatle Lennon, scheduled for Feb. 9, 1969, then prevented by a blizzard.
The putative encounter, suggested by a passage from a Stockhausen biography, was debunked by no less an expert than Yoko Ono.
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