PROGRAM 

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Julius Eastman

Gay Guerilla (1979)

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Paul Kerekes

bloom (2016)

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Erika Dohi

world premiere

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Philip Glass (arr. Paul Kerekes)

Music in 12 Parts, Part 9 (1971-74)

 

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New York Keys 

The New York City piano sextet Grand Band returns to the stage – presenting works by four New York composers, including a world premiere by Grand Band member Erika Dohi, and, for his 85th birthday celebration, an original arrangement of Philip Glass’s Part 9 from his groundbreaking Music in Twelve Parts. Repertoire classics by Julius Eastman (Gay Guerilla) and Paul Kerekes (bloom) round out this audacious, powerhouse program. Don’t miss Grand Band, an ensemble The New York Times calls “a kind of supergroup.

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PROGRAM 

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Kate Moore 
Sensitive Spot 

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Julia Wolfe 
my lips from speaking

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Missy Mazzoli 
Three Fragile Systems 
with Joshua Frankel’s Emergent System, an animated film

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Julius Eastman 
Gay Guerrilla

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​For these programs Grand Band engulfs the audience in the sonic intensity of four landmark contemporary works: the iconic and massive Gay Guerilla by cult underground figure Julius Eastman; the pulsating Sensitive Spot by Australian sound artist Kate Moore; and my lips from speaking, a riff on Aretha Franklin’s Think by Pulitzer-winning composer Julia Wolfe. In a thrilling combination of sight and sound, Missy Mazzoli’s Three Fragile Systems* is enhanced by the debut of an animated film by Joshua Frankel. In this film, commissioned by Peak Performances, Frankel builds a world of geometry, color, and looping patterns of human bodies created collaboratively with choreographer Faye Driscoll, heightening the experience of the music.

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“Three Fragile Systems” by Missy Mazzoli has been made possible through Chamber Music America's Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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