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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Something worth hearing in NYC on September 11th

REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11:
ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPT. 11, 2001
WILLIAM BASINSKI: THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS
WORLD PREMIERE LIVE ORCHESTRATION
MUSIC OF SCHNITTKE, MARSHALL, & GOLIJOV
THE WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA
RYAN MCADAMS, CONDUCTOR

A free concert on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wordless Music Orchestra will perform a world premiere live orchestration by Maxim Moston of William Basinski's ambient masterwork The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1, preceded by three other works of musical memory and remembrance: Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes II, Osvaldo Golijov's Tenebrae, and Alfred Schnittke's Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief, as arranged and generously provided for this concert by the Kronos Quartet. This program will be performed on Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 3:30 p.m., and is fully free with museum admission to audience members of all ages. This concert has been made possible by The Metabolic Studio and is co-presented by Wordless Music and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello,

Any update on the Tori Amos "Boys for Pele" volume?

Stephen