Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Saturday, May 18, 2024
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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PROGRAM
Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
Currents (1967)
string quartet
Four (1965)
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano
Music for Nine Players and Soprano Voice (1977)
soprano, alto flute, English horn, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, piano,
cello, double bass, percussion
Psalm of Akhnaten; ca. 1365-1348 B.C. (1978)
mezzo soprano, flutes, piano
Scope-Seven (1965)
piano solo
Either/Or (EO) and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) co-present and collaborate on a program of works by legendary Society of Black Composers co-founder Talib Rasul Hakim. Following the performance, a panel discussion featuring three MacArthur composers— Courtney Bryan, Tyshawn Sorey, and ICE AD George Lewis — and EO’s Richard Carrick and Chris McIntyre will discuss the history and ongoing impact of Hakim’s work.
Before his untimely passing, Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-88) was already becoming a widely influential composer, one who suffused his music for chamber and orchestral forces with intense deliberation, considered improvisations, dynamic rhythmic profiles, and purposeful silences. Hakim saw his compositions as more than just music: he saw music performance as the equivalent to an almost religious awakening. In the 1978 book The Black Composer Speaks, Hakim maintained, “It is hoped that whenever [my] music is performed, both performer and listener will experience some degree of inner stirring, that they will experience some philosophical, religious, political, emotional, intellectual experience.”
In this program, ICE and Either/Or present five diverse aspects of Hakim’s artistry that consider music as an encounter with the divine. The program includes performances of Psalm of Akhnaten; ca. 1365-1348 B.C. (1978), an imposing trio work that features a searching articulation of faith, mysticism, and spirituality; Currents (1967), his masterful entry to the string quartet canon; Scope-Seven (1965), an enigmatic solo piano work recently discovered within the vast holdings of the Library for the Performing Arts; Four (1965) for quartet; and Music for Nine Players and Soprano Voice (1977), which features the combined forces of ICE and Either/Or performers.
PERSONNEL
Either/Or
Richard Carrick, conductor
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
Pala Garcia, violin
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Chris McIntyre, trombone
John Popham, cello
Kal Sugatski, viola
International Contemporary Ensemble
Fay Victor, mezzo-soprano
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Nicolee Kuester, horn
Cory Smythe, piano
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Panel
Courtney Bryan, composer; Tyshawn Sorey, composer; Richard Carrick, Director, Either/Or ; Chris McIntyre, Curator, Either/Or; George Lewis, Artistic Director, ICE
Image of Mr. Hakim from the William A. Brown Collection, courtesy of the Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago
Supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound.org.
Made possible in part through lead support from Arlene and Larry Dunn Fund for Afrodiasporic Music and the Cheswatyr Foundation.
TILT Brass - Quintettes
Sisters Bklyn
Part of Sam Weinberg 2024 Residency
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:00pm, $10-30 sliding scale
Sisters
900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Sisters' Calendar
June 18 lineup
• TILT Brass
• Sam Weinberg solo
• Sam Ospovat with Peter Evans, Brandon Seabrook, and John Hebert
Part of stellar saxophonist/composer Sam Weinberg’s monthly 2024 Residency, TILT Brass samples contemporary work for the conventional brass quintet by composers such as Steve Martland, Reena Esmail, and presents the premiere of a new piece for brass and synth by TB Director Chris McIntyre. This is TILT’s first performance at the excellent bar & restaurant Sisters in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
TILT Brass Quintet
Wayne DuMaine, Hugo Moreno - trumpet
Chris McIntyre - trombone, Kyra Sims - horn
James Rogers - bass trombone & tuba
Other guests TBA
TILT Brass photo by Stefan Raduta
As curator for Ne(x)tworks from 2006 to 2009, I was responsible for programming concerts for this stellar group of "new music all-stars" (TIme Out), including three annual multi-event residencies:
SILOMUSIC // Residency at ISSUE Project Room, Spring 2006
> Works by Cornelius Dufallo & Chris McIntyre / March 22
> Kenji Bunch's Confessions of the Woman in the Dunes (premiere) / April 19
> WoolfSong (excerpt from opera-in-progress) / May 17
> Ne(x)tworks Collaborates / June 7
Ne(x)tworks 2007 // Residency at The Stone, June 2007
Ne(x)tworks Composers / June 10
> 8 pm - Works by Kenji Bunch, Miguel Frasconi, Yves Dharamraj
> 10 pm - Works by Shelley Burgon, Ariana Kim, Shelley Burgon
Dialogics / June 17
> 8 pm - Works by Jon Gibson [with composer performing]
> 10 pm - Works by Leroy Jenkins, Arthur Russell, and Julius Eastman
Innerlogics / June 24
> 8 pm - Works by Joan La Barbara, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Coleman, Andrew Byrne
> 10 pm - Works by Cornelius Dufallo, Peter Zummo, Michael Schumacher
Dialogics // Residency at Chelsea Art Museum, Spring 2008
March 1
Works by Shelley Burgon, Cornelius Dufallo, NxW Trio, Jon Gibson
April 5
Works by Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, and Alvin Curran
May 3
Works by Shelley Burgon, Cornelius Dufallo, Yves Dharamraj, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, Chris McIntyre, Ariana Kim, Kenji Bunch