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Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde at DiMenna Center
NYU Composer Concert
New works for brass by
Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde
Saturday, April 27, 2024
6:00pm
DiMenna Center – Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
TILT Brass premieres two new works for brass and live-electronics and sound projection by NYU graduate composer’s Cecila Lopez and Trevor Van de Velde. This is a shared program with our friends in Talea Ensemble.
TILT Personnel
Chris DiMeglio, Joe Moffett – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – tuba
Heather Kravas overly merry
May 3, 4, & 5, 2024
5/3 – 7:00pm
5/4 & 5 – 2:00pm
Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City
TILT Brass Kravas Band
Jen Baker, Terry Green II, Sam Kulik, Chris McIntyre – trombone; Kavi McIntyre – trumpet; Ryan Sawyer, Dennis Sullivan – perc.
Drawing by Valentina Starkie, inspired by Remy Charlip
Huang Ruo, composer
David Henry Hwang, librettist
Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Chay Yew, director
Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Performance #1, 3pm
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – Performance #2, 7pm
Thursday, May 16, 2024 – Performance #3, 7pm
Saturday, May 18, 2024 – Performance #4, 8pm
Sunday, May 19, 2024 – Performance #5, 3pm
PAC Event Page
On October 3, 2011, Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Afghanistan. Based on his story and the ensuing courts-martial of Chen’s fellow soldiers, this New York City premiere opera tells the powerful true story of a young soldier from Manhattan’s Chinatown who sought to serve his country, only to find his biggest threat was the very people who swore to protect him.
Told through the multidimensional music of Huang Ruo (M. Butterfly, Book of Mountains and Seas) with libretto by Tony and Grammy winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Soft Power), and directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Cambodian Rock Band, Sweatshop Overlord), An American Soldier is a powerful and unforgettable experience.
Co-Produced by PAC NYC, Boston Lyric Opera, and American Composers Orchestra.
The 2024 version was co-commissioned by PAC NYC and Boston Lyric Opera.
From June 2003 to Oct. 2019, Ne(x)tworks was a collaborative ensemble of musicians that created and interpreted work featuring a dynamic relationship between composition and improvisation. In performance and recordings, the group worked to locate pathways into various types of notation systems and interfaces, striving for a meaningful dialogue with the past, present, and future of creative music. Formed in 2003 in New York City, Ne(x)tworks extended the tradition of the performer/composer ensemble by frequently presenting full programs by its members. Its repertoire also encompassed the open scores of New York School and their European counterparts, further experiments by the composer performers of the AACM and SoHo Scene of the 1970's, the so-called Downtown composers of the 80's, and commissioned works by like-minded contemporary colleagues.
Ne(x)tworks released several recordings, including Earle Brown: Tracer on Mode Records, Ne(x)tworks Live Vol. 1: At The Stone, June 2007 and Ne(x)tworks Live Vol. 2: Music by Jon Gibson, both self-release and available at nextworks.bandcamp.com.
McIntyre was a co-founding member of Ne(x)tworks. He composed a number of mixed ensemble works for the group and was program curator from 2006 to 2010.
www.nextworksmusic.net
Ne(x)tworks performing Julius Eastman's Stay On It (1973)
Ecstatic Music Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, 2011
Photo by R Termine, NY Times