Composers Concordance: Fortune Favors the Rave

Thomas Buckner, baritone
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Mark Kostabi, piano,
Margaret Lancaster, flute
Gene Pritsker, DJ
Robert C. Ford, narrator

Fortune Favors the Rave is structured to be a departure from how we often listen to contemporary electronic music in a traditional concert hall setting. This event provides a fun, socially-distanced environment where audience members can hear new electronic compositions influenced by literature, have a beverage, and talk with the composers and other audience members throughout the evening.

Featured compositions include Tempest by Joseph Pehrson, Footprints Of Steel by Gene Pritsker based on a poem by Robert C. Ford, Beren Lúthien by Rushaniya Nizamutdinova inspired by the book Silmarillion of J.R.R. Tolkien, Happy Days by Arthur Kampela, and Joseph Waters' Cornelia Street, featuring pianist Geoffrey Burleson.

The livestream will take place at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific.

Watch the livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/ComposersConcordance

To attend in person: Tickets will be $20 per-person, with an in-person audience maximum of 15 people. Reservations are required, so the first 15 people to buy tickets are the audience. Ticket price includes free drinks.

Purchase in-person tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/preview?eid=119422428699/

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About Composers Concordance

Staying in rotation for 40 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene.

Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead.

Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Peter Jarvis. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.