2007 MATA Benefit @ Paula Cooper Galleries

2007 MATA Benefit

..::Celebrating MATA's 10th Anniversary and honoring co-founder Philip Glass during his 70th Birthday year. An amazing musical gathering: Jenny Lin performing Julia Wolfe's toy piano juggernaut East Broadway, Lukas Ligeti offering a sample of his electronic hybrid instrument Marimba Lumina, Carla Kihlstedt singing and bowing Lisa Bielawa's powerful Kafka Songs, and Annie Gosfield playing her gorgeous sounds, and a lot more.

,:Program:.Julia Wolfe: East Broadway for toy piano and toy boombox
Jenny Lin - toy piano

Lukas Ligeti: Great Circle's Tune for electronic percussion
composer - percussion & electronics

Daniel Bernard Roumain: Hip-Hop Study and Etude in F Minor
composer - violin, Wynne Bennett - piano

Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, part II
composer - keyboard, sampler

Theo Bleckmann: anteroom (excerpt)
composer - voice and electronics

Gordon Beeferman: MATA Sonata
composer - piano

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Philip Glass: Knee Play No.5 from Einstein On The Beach
Patrick Stewart, Joan La Barbara, Grethe Holby - speakers;
Lisa Bielawa, Katie Geissinger - voice; Carla Kihlstedt - violin;
Eleonor Sandresky - keyboard

Derek Bermel: Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet
composer - clarinet

Carla Kihlstedt: The Squonk & Hold My Own
composer - violin/voice, Lisa Bielawa - voice

Nick Brooke: You Feel This from Tone Test
Genevieve Belleveau - voice

Eleonor Sandresky: Conversation 1
composer - piano, computer playback

Lisa Bielawa: Selections from Kafka Songs
Carla Kihlstedt - voice & violin

Phil Klin:e Near-Perfect Clarity & The Funeral of Jan Palach
Theo Bleckmann - voice, Kathy Supové - piano