The Kitchen

Curatorial Work at The Kitchen

A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of the AACM (Oct. '08)

• Co-Curator with George Lewis
  • NY Times review

Let's Go Swimming: A Tribute to Arthur Russell (May '08)

• Co-Curator with Matthew Lyons
  • NY Times review
  • Artforum review

Assciate Music Curator (2003 to 2005)

• Live Event Curator - New Sound, New York Festival (April '04)
  • NY Times review, Tune (In))) 
• Kitchen House Blend, Director (see below)

Music Intern (under John King) - 2000 to 2003

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Kitchen House Blend

Commissioned Repertoire List
The list is ordered by series concert number. All the works were made for and premiered by KHB. The cross-sectional composer pairings were an important aspect of the project, as was the ongoing collaboration within the ensemble (a "house band," to make the pun explicit.) 

CJM, Music Director (2003-2005)

KHB 8
Vijay Iyer - Four Cycles for Said

i. Elaborations
ii. Discrepant Experience
iii. Objectivity
iv. Seductive Degradatioin (Now perhaps more than before)

John King - Checkerboard Blues
Marina Rosenfeld - bone canopy/tine palace

KHB 9
Min Xiao-Fen - The Loneliest Monk
Susie Ibarra - Golden Dream
Lee Hyla - Zurek

KHB 10
Géraldine Célérie

Canto Atlante
Rumbos
Obsidiana
Renacimiento

Joe McPhee - A Song For Beggars
Elliott Sharp - Ripples and Heats


John King, Music Director (2000-2003)

KHB 1
Craig Harris – Sound Sketches
Kitty Brazelton – Consider the Carving Knife
David Krakauer
Klezmer á la Bechet
Love Song for Lemberg/Lvov
Table Pounding/Terkish Bulgarish

KHB 2
Zeena Parkins – Pan-Acousticon
William Parker – Untitled
Roy Nathanson – The Swinging Sounds of Big Bill's Band

KHB 3
Derek Bermel – Three Rivers
Ikue Mori – Aphorisms
Marty Ehrlich – Paint People No.1

KHB 4
Kato Hideki
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 1
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 2
Mystic Ship of Life - Part 3
Bluiett – Untitled
Charles Gayle – Unto I am

KHB 5
Matthew Shipp – circles
Mary Ellen Childs – Music of the House
Frank London – The Unanswered Question...

KHB 6
Anthony Coleman – Lapidation
Lois V Vierk – In Memory
Daniel Bernard Roumain – Voodoo Violin Concerto

KHB 7
Tiyé Giraud
Opening - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Sungodown - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Ballad of Shiney Mae - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Lullady for Daddy - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Awitchin - After Dark (Baubo's Children)
Evan Ziporyn
Iris in Furs - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Jubilee of Indifference - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
...no messages... - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Dog Heaven - More Songs About Telephones and Dogs
Roy Campbell
Part I - Homage to the Wilbur Force
Part II - Homage to the Wilbur Force
Part III - Homage to the Wilbur Force

KHB Events
The group played 3 projects outside the regular commission series.

Kitchen House Blend finale at The Kitchen
Saturday, June 25, 2005

KHB revisits three pieces from its repertoire of commissioned works created since 2000. A "grand finale" performance of this stellar group of 10 NYC musicians, the evening includes works by Kitty Brazelton, Matthew Shipp, and Lee Hyla.

Molissa Fenley's Hemispheres (1983) at The Kitchen
September 29-October 9, 2004

Premiered during the inaugural Next Wave Festival at BAM, music composed by Anthony Davis for Ms. Fenley's choreography. The music ensemble for Hemispheres, based on Davis' band for the album Epistēmē, is idential to the 10-piece Kitchen House Blend. Hemispheres was on a program of Fenley's works that included Water Courses, Lava Field, and Kuro Shio.

Madison Square Park (rained out)
Summer 2003 (?)

Marty Ehrlich
Daniel Bernard Roumain
[TBD]