To my friends in Chicago, a warm invitation to join me in our upcoming celebration of the music of Shulamit Ran! Wednesday, September 16, 7pm, Buchanan Chapel of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E Chestnut, corner of Chestnut and Michigan. I will look forward to seeing you there!
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The Americas Society of New York City has just posted three videos of the extraordinary composition by Gabriela Ortiz, Baalkah, for soprano and string quartet. The performance was part of a concert I curated as Director of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University, for the Americas Society Concert Series directed by Sebastián Zubieta. Baalkah will be heard again tomorrow July 8 at the REDCAT in Los Angeles, as part of the LA International New Music Festival. The probing […]
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A question to be debated by composers, scholars, liturgists and music directors , next September19 and 20 at Notre Dame.
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Immediately after “I was born for this,” it was time for “From here to there,” another interartistic project with NON:op, an integrated arts collective in Chicago. (Chicago seems to be booming with innovative art groups!) Soon we will have videos to watch and study. Interdisciplinary works always offer surprises, in particular, the reaction of the audience that does not have a specific convention or protocol as it interacts with the event. In the meantime, while the videos arrive, information about […]
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The photos have arrived from our project, I was born for this. We will be uploading them shortly. In the meantime, a sample…. The installation by Gwendolyn Terry, Charlie Simokaitis and Chris Preissing The rehearsal, with Notre Dame Vocale, Notre Dame Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Abigail Mitchell, soprano; Jacquelyn Matava, mezzo-soprano; Benjamin Liupaogo, tenor; Connor Lidell, baritone; Carmen-Helena Tellez, conductor
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This weekend the integrated arts collective NON:op in Chicago will intervene the loft space at the Bridgeport Arts Center with a set of video and art installations, connected by itinerant dancers and musicians. We are testing the ways in which an art piece can be experienced through the influence of time and guided perception. Join us if you are in the area!
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For the creation of the event “I Was Born for This” I have been utilizing the conceptual procedure of nesting art forms, by which I establish resonant meanings between elements in two or more preexisting or otherwise independently created works (be it art, drama, music, etc.) in order to connect them powerfully with a new production concept that may be read and embraced in current times. This collaborative modus operandi has a trigger. In this case, the trigger was a […]
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I am in the midst of preparations for a new event,consisting of a new art installation that projects unto the present a process of echoes and ripples out of the life of Joan of Arc. In 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy. Almost 500 years later, Joan was acclaimed as a saint. Soon after her death, Joan of Arc became an icon of tremendous power, affecting artists and scholars for centuries. Among them, director C. […]
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