Saturday, April 22, 2023 // 7:00 pm ET
The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Avenue
(between 91st & 92nd street)
New York, NY 10128
Czech Center New York presents a concert: Art of Music and Ideas: CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH by Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble. Featuring Roscoe Mitchell.
Friday, April 21 · 7pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street
New York, NY 10021
Czech Center New York presents a concert: Art of Music and Ideas: CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH by Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble, conducted by Jiří Rožeň & Petr Kotík. The concert is part of the New York Tour of Ostravská banda.
In the early 1960s, a group of Czech composers (of classical music) was influenced by ideas and music that came from New York. Although later, the American influence in new music spread gradually throughout Europe, Prague was the first place where it had an important impact. This concert of music by the Czech and American composers (going back more than sixty years) will demonstrate the proximity of ideas between Czech and American avant-garde music. When John Cage visited Prague in 1964 and listened to music by Rudolf Komorous and Petr Kotik, he told them:
“What you are doing in Prague is extraordinary, I have never encountered anything like it”.
Ostravská banda is one of the foremost European chamber orchestras; based in Ostrava, it consists of musicians from Europe and the U.S. It was founded in 2005 by Petr Kotík as one of the resident orchestras at the festival Ostrava Days.
Produced by the Ostrava Center for New Music, the Ostravská banda New York tour, in collaboration with the local S.E.M. Ensemble, will include an April 19th performance at the Willow Place Auditorium in Brooklyn Heights and an April 20th performance at the Buchwald Theater of the newly completed Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.
Ostravská Banda’s New York tour will take place thanks to the support of the National Recovery Plan of the EU and the Statutory City of Ostrava and in cooperation with the New York-based S.E.M. Ensemble.
Art of Music and Ideas
CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH
Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble
Jiří Rožeň & Petr Kotik, conductors
The Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency provides opportunities for composers to explore, experiment, and create for two weeks in Bowling Green State University’s 10.2 multi-channel/first order Ambisonic studio. More recently the residency has welcomed new music new music performance ensembles , who present a concert and seminars in the fall and then return in the spring to read and record student works. Following their Forefront performance in September 2022, Hypercube will present open workshops on 4 composer works for ensemble + electronics on April 17th 2023. These workshops are FREE + open to the public. On April 18, the ensemble will record these works in a closed session.
Mon, April 17 // 10am – 4pm
Kobacker Hall
Moore Musical Arts Center, State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Hypercube:
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Jay Sorce, guitar
Andrea Lodge, piano
Chris Graham, percussion
University of Michigan presents WildUp: Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Sunday, April 16, 2023 // 4pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tickets
The Los Angeles music collective Wild Up is creating a series of performances and a multi-volume anthology to carry his music forward, starting with Femenine. The minimalist Femenine debuted in 1974, two years before Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach had their first performances; yet Eastman was punished for being ahead of his time, in the rejection of both his music and his person. “Wild Up’s new rendition takes a page from Eastman’s personal playbook: It’s exuberant, a bit in your face, sometimes capricious, and always surprising.” (NPR Music)
