Set 1 | Yalini Dream w/ special guests: Jendog Lonewolf, Varuni Tiruchelvam & reg e. gaines Set 2 | Aikyam Ganavya Doraiswamy (vocals) Sharik Hasan (piano) Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam) Max Ridley (bass) w/ special guests Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy (violins) Featured Women’s Organization: Women’s World Banking ------- Yalini Dream llankai Tamil Blood, Manchester Born, …
This is the premiere of Vital Signs – a documentary series about the future of classical music by director J.M. Harper (produced by Lonelyleap). Made over the last four years, it features artists like Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caroline Shaw, yMusic (The National, Bon Iver, St. Vincent), Son Lux, Nico Muhly, …
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About the Show Miya Masaoka Eleonore Oppenheim Mari Kimura Bohemian Trio Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, …
About the Show Humayun Khan and Douglas J. Cuomo have formed Turquoise Lake, an eight-piece ensemble of musicians from a variety of improvisational traditions to create music that blends the raga tradition of North India and Afghanistan, Farsi poetry of the great Sufi masters, and Afghan folk melodies and ghazals, with western jazz and rock …
The omnivorous sonic explorations of Nick Zammuto (The Books) come together with the equally far-reaching soundworld of Grammy-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, who explore the full range of the human vocal apparatus, from Tuvan throat singing and yodeling to Korean P’ansori and Persian classical singing. The performance features new works by Zammuto and others …
About the Show Pre-show talk with Robert Thurman and Philip Glass Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso famously collaborated on the album The Screens composed as music for a production of the play by Jean Genet, the score for the film Powaqqatsi, and on the concert work Orion. As part of a celebration of Philip …
About the Show Unremembered is an hour-long, thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins). A meditation on memory, innocence, and the haunted grandeur of the natural world, Unremembered recalls strange and beautiful happenings experienced …
About the Show Alternative Guitar Summit 2017: Guitars of Heaven, Guitars of Hell Founded and produced by Joel Harrison and Life Force Arts, The “Summit” is a yearly gathering of some of the most creative guitarists on earth. Each of these acts is a stand out, deliciously unique in the world of new music, improvisation, …
