Kaufman Music Center // thingNY + Jerome Kitzke // Artist as Curator
Kaufman Center presents thingNY + Jerome Kitzke // Artist as Curator
Thursday | October 16 2025 | 7:30 pm
MERKIN HALL
Kaufman Music Center
Abraham Goodman House
129 West 67th Street
New York, NY 10023
The brilliant NYC composer-performer collective thingNY presents the World Premiere of Jerome Kitzke’s I Wonder If This Ground Has Anything to Say (A Treaty Illumination). In his inimitable style, Kitzke fuses the rhythms of language and music into a powerful and urgent whole. With a 24-section libretto built by Kitzke from litanies of definitions, dates, names, places, and historic quotations—from Red Jacket to an unlikely Richard Nixon—the work sheds light on the existence of Treaties and Agreements made between the Indigenous Nations and the White Europeans/U.S. Government from 1613 to today. The Treaties made between 1775 and 1871 are still constitutionally the Law of the Land, and have often not been fully honored, especially in the areas of land base, education and health care. Kitzke’s musical illumination arrives as a fierce and timely reminder of the enduring legal and moral obligations set forth in the Treaties.
thingNY fuses electronic and acoustic chamber music with new opera, improvisation, theater, text, song, and installation, collaborating across disciplines, media and genres. Tribeca New Music presents and performs a bold new art music, infused with American pop culture.
More info + tickets: https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/thingny-jerome-kitzke/