Ensemble Pi returns to Cooper Union’s Great Hall for its annual Peace Project concert, Dancer on a Tightrope, March 13
Posted by s21concerts in Concert AnnouncementKARIM AL-ZAND, SOFIA GUBAIDULINA, KRISTIN NORDERVAL, BEHZAD RANJBARAN & FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Ensemble Pi is an unusual new music collective in that its concerts have a socially-conscious bent and feature composers whose works seek to open a dialogue between ideas and music on some of the world’s current and critical issues. For its Sixth Annual Peace Project installment, the critically-acclaimed group will adress the courage and compassion necessary to fight for one’s belief with works celebrating life as risk and art as flight into another existence.
* Karim Al-Zand’s Swimmy (2010) WORLD PREMIERE
A setting of Leo Lionni’s classic children tale of survival with large-scale video projections by Dave Channon
* Kristin Norderval’s A Remarkable Failure (2010) WORLD PREMIERE
An homage to prominent Israeli journalist and activist Amira Hass
* Frederic Rzewski’s Whangdoodles (1990) NY PREMIERE
Exploring the idea of an open, planetary approach to relationships of conflict
* Behzad Ranjbaran’s Shiraz (2006)
Celebrating the poets and historic gardens which have made this Southern Iranian city famous.
* Sofia Gubaidulina’s Dancer on a Tightrope (1993)
Exploring the desire to break away from the confines of everyday life, inevitably associated with risk and danger.
Performers: Kristin Norderval, voice and laptop; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Idith Meshulam, piano; Monique Buzzarté, trombone; Florent Renard-Payen, cello; Carol McGonnell, clarinet; and Nathan Davis, hammered dulcimer.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13 at 8 PM
Cooper Union’s Great Hall (7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, NYC)
$15 ($10 for students and seniors).
Call (212) 362-4745 or visit: www.ensemble-pi.org
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