Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Park Avenue Armory - New York, NY
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Chinua Achebe’s angry dismissal inspires the musical argument for the negative, powerFUL, a concert based around the belief that art can be a political tool. Here is music that gives an impassioned, disruptive clarion call for social consciousness and action.
Frederic Rzewski’s blistering Coming Together sets a prescient text by a victim of the Attica prison riot, and Louis Andriessen’s ear-shattering Workers Union combines freedom and discipline to “express collective solidarity.” John Cage intended his percussion work Credo in US, with its satirical use of phonograph records, as a pointed critique of American society, while Matt Marks paints a musical portrait of Glenn Beck and David T. Little sings a love song to crude oil.
Festival curators Lisa Kaplan, and Tim Munro of eighth blackbird and the composer David T. Little of Newspeak introduce the context and the concepts behind the concert and introduce the ensembles performing the material.
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