A rare concert performance of Samuel Becketts radio play Words and Music with American composer, Morton Feldmans score. Renowned Beckett actors Barry McGovern and Stephen Brennan play the spoken roles of Words/Joe and Croak with a conducted ensemble of Beckett Chamber Music Series musicians playing the role of Music/Bob. Throughout the play, Croak invokes Words and Music to perform for him on the subjects of Love, Age and The Face, either separately or together in a kind of contest of aesthetics. When discussing the play with academic, Katherine Worth, Beckett made the, perhaps surprising, comment, Music always wins.
The performance is directed by Everett Frost, who produced and directed the award-winning American national broadcast premieres of Beckett's five completed radio plays. Preceding Becketts radio play are performances of Edgard Varse Density 21.5 for solo flute and chamber works by Morton Feldman.