MIOLINA presents: DUOLOGUE FESTIVAL
A new festival celebrating NYC’s best duos
Bowers/Fader Duo / Popebama / Miolina
September, 29 2023 | 7pm
Renee Weiler Concert Hall @ Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St | Manhattan 10014
Featuring
Laurie Anderson
Raven Chacon, Natalie Diaz and thingNY
Emel
Forró in the Dark
Wang Guowei
Angélique Kidjo
Michael Mwenso
Mwenso & the Shakes
Curated in Collaboration with Trinity Church Wall Street
Programming Consultant Annie Ohayon
Directed by Sarah Benson
Shades of Words // Talea Ensemble performs:
Jesse Cox
George Lewis
Hannah Kendall
Jeffrey Mumford
Andile Khumalo
September 15, 2023 // 8pm
Jack NY
20 Putnam Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
NTQ presents our 6th Explorations concert with a program of cutting edge works for saxophone, drawing from meditative breath, temporal flux, sine tone clusters, dissembled instruments, and vocalization.
The concert opens with works from NTQ’s residencies at New York University and Binghamton University. Neva Derewetzky‘s small voices explores time and air, growing from meditative breath to sweeping dynamic swells. Derewetzky writes the saxophone “is an instrument that begs to run… For just a few minutes, I want the instrument to be patient. To take a breath and to wait.” Michael Seltenreich‘s Ornamentation 1 uses flux in tempo to build a constant pulsing line. The work builds harmonically while always centered around the push and pull of time. Our program will continue with commissioned works by NTQ founding member Erin Rogers and by Victoria Cheah. Erin Rogers‘ Foliage utilizes timbral and harmonic shifts to produce slow motion color changes in a gradual transition to noise. Victoria Cheah‘s Walk for a shell incorporates fixed media playback alongside the saxophone quartet, and explores how actions along a path may connect you to others. Cheah writes “Pilgrimage journeys put time and effort to work at covering a distance in an offering of respect. Walk for a shell attempts this respect with gestures of tuning, ghosts of words exchanged, and offerings of effort.”
Explorations Vol. 6: Time and Breath
Sunday, Sept 10 @ 2pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY, 10018
Tickets – $10 online and at the door
Program
Neva Derewetsky – small voices (2023), NYC premiere
Michael Seltenreich – Ornamentation 1 (2022), NYC premiere #
Erin Rogers – Foliage (2023), world premiere *
Victoria Cheah – Walk for a shell (2023), world premiere *
Learn more at our event page.
