Classical Notes

New approach at Gardner museum

Hosts Callithumpian Consort in three upcoming concerts

Stephen Drury, the Callithumpian Consort’s artistic director, helped to curate Avant Gardner. (Erik Jacobs for The Boston Globe/File 2007)

By David Weininger

Globe Correspondent / August 28, 2009

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Giving a local cast to its support of contemporary music, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is hosting the Callithumpian Consort, one of Boston’s most intrepid and accomplished new music ensembles, in a three-concert series. The series, dubbed Avant Gardner, is the creation of the Gardner’s music director, Scott Nickrenz, who is about to begin his 20th year of programming concerts ... (Full article: 525 words)