3 June 2016
What's up with The Crossing?
John Grecia, our keyboard guy, will solo on a concert of 7R composers.
Photo by Peter Salidar
We're only three weeks away from Seven Responses ! Get your tickets today!
Seven Responses Composers Preview Concert
Join us Sunday,  June 12th at 4pm  in the Chapel at PCCH for a brief concert featuring music from some of our Seven Responses composers.   The program features Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano, and John Grecia, piano, in music of Caroline Shaw, Santa Ratniece, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Get to know our composers before the big event!

When:
Sunday, June 12, 4pm
Where:
Burleigh Cruikshank Memorial Chapel
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia
Admission:
$10 at the door
Who is 7R?
Last week we began a series of brief profiles of the artists that are creating and producing  Seven Responses  - introductions to the the composers, poets, designers, singers, and ensembles, with links to hear and see more of their work. Read the first bunch here:

May 31 -  Arnulf de Leuven
Most likely source of Rythmica Oratio, from which is drawn some text for Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri

Work drawn on for Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's response, Ad Cor

Librettist for Anna Thorvaldsdottir's response, Ad Genua

May 27 -  Paul Kane
Librettist for Lewis Spratlan's response,  Common Ground
Check out the second  Seven Responses Teaser!


PRISM at Kimmel Center
Lots of news on the PRISM front; first, a reminder about our collaboration on  June 15 (Philly) and 16 (New York) - click a date to get your tickets - and also a plug for their other upcoming events.

PRISM is co-presenting two exciting concerts at the Kimmel Center just before our concerts of Bryars' The Fifth Century.

June 4:
PRISM joins forces with So Percussion to premiere a major new piece by Steve Mackey. Also on the program: music by Georg Friedrich Haas, Bryce Dessner, Donnacha Dennehy, and Kati Agocs.

June 11:
PRISM collaborates with Grammy-winning Partch, one of only three ensembles in the world performing the music and instruments of maverick composer/inventor Harry Partch. They'll premiere new microtonal works by Ken Ueno and Stratis Minakakis, plus pieces by Steve Lehman and Xenakis.

Tickets are $10-$28. More info is here.
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