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ACO: New Virtuoso: Borders // Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall map
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 7:30pm
October 30, 2024, 7:30 PM ET
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
ACO Event PageMei-Ann Chen, Conductor
Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Bass
Mak Grgik, Guitar
Inbal Segev, Cello
Curtis Stewart, Violin and Electronics
PROGRAM
Michael Abels - Borders
Kebra-Seyoun Charles - New Work (ACO Commission, developed via EarShot CoLABoratory/World Premiere)
Curtis Stewart - Embrace (ACO Commission)
Paul Novak - Forest Migrations (ACO Commission/World Premiere)
Victoria Polevá - The Bell
“The New Virtuoso“ is a series of programs featuring works that defy genre expectations for a solo instrument, and in doing so carve out novel texture, affect and technique in Symphonic composition. This program features works that question the nature and effect of political, gender, and ecologic borders, and how we as humans move and migrate in reaction. With conductor Mei-Ann Chen on the podium, this concert features guitarist Mak Grgik, cellist Inbal Segev, and violinist Curtis Stewart. ACO will perform three commissions by Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Paul Novak, and Curtis Stewart, alongside works by Michael Abels and Victoria Polevá. -
Either/OR: Transpositions - Music by Braxton, Obadike map
Sunday, December 8, 2024 - 8:00pm
Transpositions: Music by A. Braxton, M. & K. Obadike
Sunday, December 8, 2024
8:00 PM 9:30 PM
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11238
Either/Or presents an evening of works that situate the players and their audience in a compelling dialogic relationship between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal and rarely heard Composition No.98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obdike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosures (2007).
Composition No.98Braxton's Composition No.98 (1981) is a pivotal work in the prolific composer/performer's oeuvre, fully realizing the total fusion of conventional and visual notation. EO brings together a special quartet to revive this rarity, featuring James Fei (long-time Braxton collaborator) on woodwinds, Jonathan Finlayson on trumpets, Chris McIntyre on trombones and euphonium, and Richard Carrick on keyboards.
Excerpt from Big House/Disclosures
At the excellent new Brooklyn venue Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, EO is also revisiting Mendi + Kieth Obadike's Big House/Disclosures (2007), the fecundated collection of graphic scores “...inspired by Nigerian nsibidi writing, European music notation, and architectural drawings.” Big House/Disclosure was the inaugural work in the Obadike's ongoing series of multimedia works entitled The Americana Suites.
PERSONNEL
James Fei (woodwinds), Johnathan Finlayson (trumpets), Chris McIntyre (trombones, euphonium), Richard Carrick (keyboards)
Either/Or - Anthony Braxton composer portrait at Miller Theatre (Sep. 2019)
L to R: Chris Mcintyre, richard carrick, james fei, jonathan finlayson
detail of photo by Anthony creamer
CJM Housepage
CJM - Music Director, keyboard
Purchase from Forced Exposure
CJM performing his work Reverses (2019)
Sounding Serra at Gagosian Gallery, Dec. '19