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
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
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
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
Geraldine Celérier
Canto Atlante
Rumbos
Obsidiana
Renacimiento
Joe McPhee - A Song For Beggars
Elliott Sharp - Ripples and Heats
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