This Wednesday… What’s Next? Ensemble
presents
Fighting Music
Wednesday November 23, 8pm
Royal-T Café $5 General Admission
Fighting Music
Wednesday November 23, 2011 8pm
Royal-T Café/Gallery/Art Space
8910 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Our first concert of the season is finally here! This Wednesday come join as we play the wonderful music of our very own Southern California composers Don Crockett and Wojteck Blecharz, Rome Prize winner Sean Friar, and the grandfather of hard-edge minimalism Louis Andriessen. In a time of economic uncertainty and political upheaval relax by joining What’s Next? as we give thanks for the power of musical expression.
Just to whet your appetite, check out Nick Norton’s wonderful interview with WNE Artistic Director and conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni over at http://newclassicla.wordpress.com/
Program
Sean Friar Fighting Words for soprano and ensemble
Donald Crockett To Airy Thinness Beat concerto for viola and ensemble
Wojteck Blecharz Cartography for ensemble
Louis Andriessen Workers Union for ensemble
The materials I choose, and the images I create are a result of questioning to my self, why a person like me or just people around me in general would end up in a place like this, at this particular age. When you are surrounded by these materials and images, they become normal, and almost invisible. For example, with my accumulations series, I observe, depict, accumulate, and transform everyday objects such as paperclips, staples, screws, poster putty, and hair clips. By bringing these entities to the foreground, I’m trying to show how unusual these things really are. Imagine landing in the world today from, say, just 200 years ago. All of these things would seem so bizarre.
Quintan Ana Wikswo is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects integrate a constellation of works in photography, original text, video and installation, as well as performance collaborations with composers and choreographers. Catalysis Projects interviews her about synesthesia, washing dishes with kitty litter, and microtonal fantasies. MicroTextual will premiere Quintan’s Floriography I/Coimbra 1452 (with Rafael Liebich) and Floriography [...]