Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra
Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, thoroughly composed and purely improvised at the same time, inspired by west african roots of Jazz, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Steve Coleman, and Stravinsky's layering or Steve Reich's phase techniques. Drawing from a repertoire of numerous pre-conceived musical units, the conductor is free to choose which one to play next, and in which instrumental combination. Merging improvisational aspects with open form composition, the conductor uses the orchestra as an instrument, while each performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance.
Tammen gets his thrill out of exploring the world of sounds, by utilizing technology from his hybrid guitar/computer setup to planetarium projectors, guitar robots and disklavier pianos. His Third Eye Orchestra concept was first presented in 2004 on Canada's Sound Symposium Festival, with a take on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew period. From the first original work presented on 2005's "Jazz on the Volga" Festival in Yaroslavl, Russia, numerous works for various kinds of ensembles were presented in the US, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Germany.
Hans Tammen received composer commissions for the Third Eye Orchestra from the American Composers Forum, underwritten by the Jerome Fondation, and the New York State Council On The Arts (NYSCA). The CD was produced with funds from the New York State Music Funds.
The core ensemble in New York City consists of string quartet, wind/brass quartet, two pianos/keyboards, bass, percussion, voice and live sound processing, often enhanced by one or more guests. The ensemble released a CD of a 2006 Roulette performance as "Antecedent / Consequent" on the Innova label. All About Jazz called the music "nothing short of breathtaking", and "a masterpiece of musical evocation".
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Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Featuring Performances by:
Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) &
Nate Wooley/Peter Evans Trumpet Duo
::1st meeting of this world-class improvising "double duo"
TILT Creative Brass Band
::Works by Curtis Hasselbring, Mauricio Kagel
TILT SIXtet
::Works by John King, Chris McIntyre
TILT Brass, various forces
::Works by Lois Vierk, Rhys Chatham, Fredric Rzewski, Christian Marclay
Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins)
Peter Evans/Nate Wooley Duo
TILT SIXtet
Russ Johnson, Nate Wooley - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring, Chris McIntyre - trombone
Joe Exley, John Altieri - tuba
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CJM joins Ne(x)tworks members Joan La Barbara and Miguel Frasconi to perform various pieces by John Cage on DJ Kurt Gottschalk's Miniature Mintaurs show on WFMU. CJM will play Solo for Sliding Trombone, Variations II, and other works simultaneously with La Barbara and Frasconi.
Elliott Sharp’s 60th birthday celebration continues with a collection of his long-time friends and collaborators performing his music at ISSUE’s current space at the Old American Can Factory. Among Sharp’s works to be performed are Flexagons (Orchestra Carbon), Octal (Elliott Sharp solo), Oligosono (Jenny Lin, piano), Bootstrappers (JG Thirwell, Anthony Coleman, Melvin Gibbs, Don McKenzie, & Sharp), Amygdala (Marco Cappelli, guitar), and an all-guitar version of Sharp’s SyndaKit. The celebration begins at 5:00 with an open Flexagons rehearsal and continues until late.
This is the second night of a celebration of Elliott Sharp, E#@60, which begins March 4 at 110 Livingston with the premiere of Elliott’s new work for double string quartet, Occam’s Razor. Join us to celebrate our friend and supporter at this special event.
The evening begins at 5 pm and continues until 12:30 am:
5-7 pm: Flexagons, a new composition by Elliott Sharp performed by his Orchestra Carbon and conducted by Butch Morris: Open rehearsal and discussion. [feat. CJM]
7:30-8:30 pm: screening of Bert Shapiro’s documentary on Sharp’s work “Doing The Don’t.”
8:30-8:50 pm: Elliott Sharp solo: excerpts from Octal for 8-string guitarbass (20′)
9:00-9:50 pm: Flexagons performance (45′)
with Curtis Fowlkes-trombone, Chris McIntyre-trombone, Jenny Lin-piano, Danny Tunick-percussion, vibraphone, Kevin Ray-bass, Reuben Radding-bass, Judith Insell-viola, Rachel Golub – violin, Ha-Yang Kim-cello, Briggan Krauss – alto sax, Oscar Noriega – reeds, E#-guitar, reeds
10:00-10:30 pm: Oligosono by Sharp: piano solo performed by Jenny Lin (20′)
10:40-11:20 pm: Bootstrappers: JG Thirwell-electronics, Anthony Coleman-piano, Melvin Gibbs-bass, Don McKenzie-drums, E#-guitar (30′)
11:30-11:45 pm: Amygdala by Sharp: guitar solo performed by Marco Cappelli (15′)
12:00-12:30 am: All-Guitar SyndaKit (30′) with Ben Tyree, Marco Cappelli, Angela Babin, Marc Sloan, Ron Anderson, Zach Layton, Dave Scanlon, Debra DeSalvo, James Ilgenfritz, Anders Nilsson
Reprising its well-known realization of Julius Eastman's Stay On It, Ne(x)tworks joins a stellar line-up of today's most talked about New Music groups to help kick off the season-long series Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall.
Joan La Barbara - voice
Shelley Burgon - harp, perc.
Cornelius Dufallo - violin
Miguel Frasconi - synthesizer
Steve Gosling - piano
Ariana Kim - violin
Christopher McIntyre - trombone
Guests:
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Danny Tunick - percussion
"Still, it seemed fitting somehow that the first artists featured during the marathon were outliers. Ne(x)tworks, a new-music collaborative with ties to the New York School of experimentalist composers of the 1950s, performed “Stay on It,” a 1973 work by Julius Eastman, a New York composer who died in 1990. Restored to circulation via a 2005 anthology on the New World label, Mr. Eastman’s once marginalized music has started to find an appreciative new audience.
Here “Stay on It” sounded like a prescient precursor to a sound that has flourished among New Amsterdam-associated composers like Mr. Greenstein and Nico Muhly. Initially bright, affirmative and unanimous in its Minimalist pulsations, the piece grew unruly, with individual musicians breaking away from the dominant ensemble theme for passages of free expression.
As those players rejoined, the sound became increasingly heterodox: distinct voices not fused seamlessly, as in a classical ensemble, but loosely united in joyous common cause. It would be hard to find a more potent metaphor to represent this festival’s intent to celebrate cross-pollination and collaboration." - S. Smith
Darmstadt Essential Rep: Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas I – X (1958 – 1984)
Admission: $10 / $8 for members
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. Luciano Berio has always looked at his Sequenzas as building blocks among his other compositions. These solo works, sometimes written for specific performers, exist as elements of other, larger works or as platforms upon which he’s built extensive structures.
Line-up includes: Claire Chase (flute), Shelley Burgon (harp), Daisy Press (voice), Stephen Gosling (piano), Chris McIntyre (trombone), John Pickford Richards (viola), James Austin Smith (oboe), Jennifer Choi (violin), Joshua Rubin (clarinet), and Gareth Flowers (trumpet).
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NY Times Review
(Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times)
Greenwich House Ensemble-In-Residence Kick-off Event
Ne(x)tworks Live Vol.1 Release Event
Preview of ensemble material from CJM's Smithson Project
Program
Arthur Russell - Singing Tractors (pages 1 & 2) (ca. 1987)
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972)
Edgard Varese - untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (1979)
Christopher McIntyre - Preview of material from Smithson Project (2010/11)
Personnel
Joan La Barbara (voice), Shelley Burgon (harp, baritone guitar, laptop), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Miguel Frasconi (keyboard, laptop), Ariana Kim (violin), Stephen Gosling (piano, keyboard), Chris McIntyre (trombone)
Guests: Anthony Coleman (piano [Jenkins]), Ha-Yang Kim (cello), Danny Tunick (percussion)
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The evening will include a special performance of First’s “A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House” by Jane Scarpantoni/cello, Christopher McIntyre/trombone, Peter Zummo/trombone & D. First/guitar &...laptop with visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya (approx 9:30pm).
For this evening only the 3-CD set will be available for the special price ...of $20.00
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009) XI 134
(3 CDs for the price of 2)
Featuring Chris McIntyre and Peter Zummo, trombones; “Blue” Gene Tyranny, keyboards; and The Black Jackets Ensemble.
“This was something unexpected and truly different: pulsing electronic textures that derived their rhythm from the beating patterns of closely-tune pitches – as if Alvin Lucier and Philip Glass had gone on a blind date to CBGBs… David put the beat in beating patterns.”- From the liner notes by composer Nic Collins (on his initial exposure to First’s music in 1987)
http://xirecords.org/134.shtml
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6595
Members of Ne(x)tworks, including Shelley Burgon (harp, elec.), Stephen Gosling (synth), and Chris McIntyre (trombone, synth) come together to support the Brooklyn-based online arts magazine Triple Canopy. The trio will present a selection from Karlheinz Stockhausen's legendary text works Aus Den Sieben Tagen
Premier support: $45, entry at 7 p.m.
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Donation includes a limited-edition print by Dexter Sinister, cocktails, light fare, and all performances.
Join us for a night of performances to benefit Triple Canopy. Steady Orbits will feature an interactive scale model of the solar system by Matt Mullican; a storytelling and lightbox performance by Ellie Ga; a video program organized by curator Gary Carrion-Murayari; DJ sets by Javelin and Jon Santos; performances by the ensemble Ne(x)tworks, which will play a selection from Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), and the band Psychobuildings, with a set designed by
A quartet of TILT Brass players will play renown visual and sound artist Christian Marclay's 1985 work "Through the Looking Glass" as well as wall mounted graphic scores on Wed., Sept. 23, Thu., Sept 24, and Fri., 25, through 26 during the exhibition "Christian Marclay: Festival" at the Whitney Museum. The show runs from July 1 to September 26. More info at http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay
TILT Brass presents its SIXtet project playing a work by Anthony Coleman as well as the launch of a collaboration with Santa Fe-based composer, saxophonist, and video artist Chris Jonas, previewing music and video from the new intermedia work Cities (GARDEN, Chapter 2). More info at HERE
(L to R - Anthony Coleman, Chris McIntyre, Russ Johnson, John Altieri, Joe Exely, Nate Wooley, Curtis Hasselblring, Chris Jonas)
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JOHN KING’S “10 MYSTERIES” CD RELEASE AT ROULETTE NYC, MAY 15, 2010
Members of TILT Brass (Russ Johnson, trumpet; Rachel Drehmann, horn; Chris McIntyre, trombone; Joe Exley, tuba) join the string quartet Crucible (Cornelius Dufallo and Chris Otto, violins; John King, viola; and Alex Waterman, cello) to perform the music of composer John King at NYC’s Roulette.
Roulette (www.roulette.org) is located at 20 Greene Street, NYC, between Canal and Grand.
Tickets are $15/$10 and can be reserved at 212.219.8242.
Admission is free to Roulette members.
Earlier this year, John King released his second CD, “10 Mysteries” on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. King has 2 previous CD releases of music for string quartet; AllSteel (Tzadik) and Ethel (Cantaloupe). Featuring passionate and inspiring performances by the remarkable quartet Crucible with King himself on viola, the music on 10 Mysteries jumps from moment to moment with lightening speed and an organic sense of form. In his second CD on Tzadik he again embraces rock, jazz, blues and other popular styles in an energetic and colorful program for string quartet.
Crucible will also be joined by the TILT Brass and Charlotte Dobbs, soprano, for the world premiere of SAPPHO presto chango. These 12 short arias are based on the poem fragments of Sappho which are to be performed as an independent layer to the instrumental ensemble. To end the evening, pianist Jenny Lin will perform King's petite ouverture en forme de mErCE CunninGHAm, a piece written for Merce in honor of his 90th birthday.
Crucible features New York string luminaries Cornelius Dufallo, Chris Otto and Alex Waterman, who perform with such groups as Ethel, the JACK Quartet and the Either/Or Ensemble.
Led by trombonist and composer Chris McIntyre, Brooklyn-based TILT Brass is a versatile collective of brass and percussion artists that present works ranging from the historical avant garde to commissioned works by composers such as James Tenney, Anthony Coleman, and Lois V. Vierk.
Ne(x)tworks performs Joan La Barbara
An excerpt from Angels, Demons and other Muses, an opera-in-progress
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Roulette 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand, NYC)
General admission: $15 /$10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members
Free for Roulette and Location One members
For reservations, call (212) 219-8242.
Joan La Barbara’s new opera-in-progress Angels, Demons, and other Muses is inspired in part by the dreams of Joseph Cornell, intricate word turnings of Virginia Woolf, and psychological twists of Poe. The performance features the ensemble Ne(x)tworks, which includes violist Kenji Bunch, harpist Shelley Burgon, cellist Yves Dharamraj, violinist and director Cornelius Dufallo, glass instrumentalist Miguel Frasconi, pianist Stephen Gosling,violinist Ariana Kim, and trombonist Chris McIntyre.
EITHER/OR SPRING FESTIVAL 2010
www.eitherormusic.org
March 26, 2010,8 PM
March 27, 2010, 8 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Tickets: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Either/Or is proud to announce the line-up for our 5th Annual Spring Festival of New Music. The 2010 Either/Or Festival features two nights of compelling new chamber music from around the world including world premieres from Trevor Baca (US, Jezek Prize Commission), Martin Iddon (UK), and Erik Griswold (US/Australia). US premieres on the two concerts will include music of Richard Barrett (UK), Eve Beglarian (US), Alex Hills (UK), Karin Rehnqvist (Sweden), and Rebecca Saunders (UK/Germany).
Friday, March 26
Richard Barrett – EARTH* for trombone and percussion (1987-1988)
Rebecca Saunders - duo 3, parts i & iii* for viola and percussion (1999/2001)
György Kurtág - Splinters, op. 6c for cimbalom (1973) and other works
Klaus Lang – zwillingsgipfel for flute and piano (2003)
Karin Rehnqvist – Beginning* for piano trio (2003)
Saturday, March 27
Trevor Bača - Mon seul désir** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)
Eve Beglarian - Play Nice for cimbalom (1997/2010)
Martin Iddon – Danaë** for violin, viola, and cello (2010)
Louis Andriessen - Workers' Union for ensemble (1977)
Alex Hills - Knight's Move* for cello and percussion (2008/9)
Erik Griswold - New Work** for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)
** World premiere
* US premiere
Benjamin Baron - clarinet
Richard Carrick - piano, conductor
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flutes
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Esther Noh - violin
David Shively - cimbalom, percussion
Alex Waterman - cello
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the BMI Foundation,the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, and Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 8pm
To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass [Part 2] feat. 10-piece TILT Creative Brass Band
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Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
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On Wednesday, February 10, the 10-piece Brooklyn-based group TILT Creative Brass Band presents the second installment of its on-going series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass which focuses solely on repertoire written for the organization's distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet) at ISSUE Project Room. The program features works by a stellar group of composer/performers including Downtown legend Anthony Coleman, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, avant-cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, Gold Sparkle's Charles Waters (featuring virtuoso improviser Mick Rossi on piano), and TILT Director Chris McIntyre. TILT CBB features an extraordinary line-up of creative musicians including trumpeters Nate Wooley and Gareth Flowers, trombonists Joe Feidler and Jacob Garchik, and and percussionist Kevin Norton.
PROGRAM
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TILT Creative Brass Band
Brooklyn based TILT Creative Brass Band (TCBB) is a beautifully strange combination of military brass band and Downtown repertoire ensemble. The group has presented concerts since January 2003 at venues ranging from Whitney Museum to Barbes in Brooklyn. Since its inception, TCBB has fearlessly taken on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, tongue-in-cheek agitprop, and hybrid scores combining notation and improvisation. The group frequently presents entire programs of original works by its composer/performer members (Kevin Norton, Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley, among others) and colleagues from the field, including legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (released on Tzadik), Doctor Nerve's Nick Didkovsky, multi-instrumentist Charles Waters, and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. In addition, the Creative Brass Band is committed to presenting works from the experimental tradition, ranging from a Varése graphic score from the late 50's and selections from James Tenney's Postal Pieces to works by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water). In June '09, TCBB kicked off a new on-going series of programs called New York Noise which presents historical and current works by important composers from the Downtown community and its ancestors such as Elliott Sharp, Lois V. Vierk, and Rhys Chatham. In 2010, the group will present several programs at ISSUE Project Room and will record and release its current To TILT repertoire. Mick Rossi Pianist, percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi’s diverse accomplishments include: being among “the most courageous, gifted, and charismatic musicians" of the New York Downtown scene (AllAboutJazz); a long-time Philip Glass collaborator and member of the ensemble as pianist, percussionist, and conductor; and working with artists from Dave Douglas to Kelly Clarkson to Leonard Cohen. He recently conducted Book of Longing at the Sydney Opera House, and performed Einstein at the Beach at Carnegie Hall and Koyaanisqatsi at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent recordings include One Block From Planet Earth (OmniTone), and They Have A Word For Everything (Knitting Factory). His recent concert at Le Poisson Rouge presenting his latest and ninth recording Songs From The Broken Land (Orange Mountain Music) was featured in the NY Times. |
Friday, January 22, 6-8pm
Opening Party for Double-Bill
Featuring Monuments, a new film by Redmond Entwistle
(Original music by CJM)
Runs from Jan 22–Mar 20
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Art in General [website]
79 Walker Street
New York NY 10013
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“Double-Bill” is a group exhibition curated by New Commissions artist Redmond Entwistle that includes his new film Monuments along with works by Mary Billyou, Suzanne Goldenberg, Rafael Sanchez, and Kathleen White. Using seating salvaged from various defunct cinema spaces, a temporary cinema will be assembled in the gallery featuring twice-daily screenings of Monuments as well as two series of films. The first series is about the early New York film avant-garde and the second is a selection of recent film and video work by artists including Marianna Ellenberg, Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Raha Raissna and Stom Sogo.
Starting with Monuments, a retelling of the story of Post-Minimalism and its relationship to New York and New Jersey in the vein of comic horror, “Double-Bill” brings together a series of works that share B-cinema’s ethics and dilemmas of autonomous production and its achievement of magical and critical effects through minimal means. These works are interspersed with and interrupt the makeshift cinema. A projection booth will be at the entrance to the gallery and on the wall of the booth are a series of text paintings by Mary Billyou. Behind the cinema screen and lit by studio lights is Rafael Sanchez and Kathleen White’s ongoing assemblage and street performance Book Sale. Intermingled with, and obstructing the collection of, cinema seating are Suzanne Goldenberg’s paper, wood and cloth sculptures.
Wednesday, January 13, 8pm
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MATA Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound [website]
David Kant & Cameron Hu, curators
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Issue Project Room [website]
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
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Every musical event is accompanied by an often unacknowledged and yet not-so-silent partner. The built environment reflects, refracts, and remakes sound, and performer and audience act and listen under the influence of its formal language. Architectures of Sound assembles an evening of unusual performances that attend to this convergence of sound and built space. Artists Casey Thomas Anderson, G. Douglas Barrett, Anthony Ptak, Charles Stankievech, Jacob Sudol, Michael Winter, and curators Cameron Hu and David Kant will present new work that interacts with the singularities of the performance space - its materiality, its geometric form, its historical specters and its vanishing present.
Cage "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" @ Mode Records Benefit, Abrons Art Center CJM joins all-star line-up to perform John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchesrta (1957/58) during a benefit event for Mode Records at Abrons Art Center.
McIntyre/Drungle Duo
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, 8:30, $10
Ibeam Music
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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First duo set with CJM on trombone and composer/pianist/metabolist Pete Drungle on piano.
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Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 8:30pm
Roulette Intermedium []
20 Greene Street, NYC [g-map]
Chris McIntyre presents
To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass
Composer, trombonist, and producer Chris McIntyre presents New York-based TILT Brass' two projects, TILT SIXtet and TILT Creative Brass Band, with a full evening of extraordinary new Downtown brass music. This event kicks off TILT's on-going concert series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass. To TILT focuses solely on repertoire written for TILT's distinctive ensembles, with works that often embrace the playerly, composed/improvised hybrid aesthetic developed in New York's Downtown scene over the past 40 years. The Roulette program features 3 world premieres, 2 for SIXtet by the legendary Anthony Coleman and pianist/composer Pete Drungle, and the third by McIntyre for the 10-piece Creative Brass Band. Also featured are pieces by TILT Brass members (Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley) and its esteemed colleagues John King and Nick Didkovsky. The personnel for this special event is filled with some of the best all-around instrumentalist/artists New York City has to offer, including Kevin Norton, Joe Fiedler, Russ Johnson, John Clark, Gareth Flowers, Jacob Garchik, and both Hasselbring and Wooley.
Complete Info (including video of Didkovsky) HERE
PROGRAM
SIXtet
Anthony Coleman - premiere of new work
Pete Drungle - premiere of new work
John King - Baghdad Blues (In Memorium James Tenney)
Creative Brass Band
Nick Didkovsky - Stink Up! (Evolved Form)
Curtis Hasselbring - untitled
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double
Chris McIntyre - premiere of new work
PERSONNEL
SIXtet:
Trumpet - Russ Johnson, Nate Wooley
Trombone - Curtis Hasselbring, Chris McIntyre
Tuba - Joe Exley, John Altieri
>>>Listen to SIXtet
Creative Brass Band:
Trumpet - Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers, Rich Johnson
French Horn - John Clark, Rachel Drehmann
Trombone - Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre
Bass Trombone - Jacob Garchik
Tuba - Ron Caswell
Percussion - Kevin Norton
Conductor - Greg Evans
>>>Listen to Creative Brass Band