National Sawdust: 21c Liederabend Op. World Wide (digital)
Free
Paola Prestini — Selected works
Amyra León — Selected works
Theodosia Roussos — Selected works
Lido Pimienta — Selected works
Diana Syrse — Selected works
Join us June 27th when a dozen top-flight talents across multiple fields and disciplines will unite to create an intimate night of new music and thrilling visual experiences. Each unique work will be accompanied by interviews with each composer, offering an exclusive opportunity to lift the curtain and get an inside-look at the development of each piece.
Featured creators include new work by the rising performance-artist, vocalist, and composer Holland Andrews in collaboration with Katrina Reid and Paul Notice of The Notice Blog; multi-hyphenate musician-author-director-activist Amyra León with filmmaker Bradley Credit, musicians David Frazier and Darian Thomas, and dancer Paris Marcel; the Canadian-Colombian singer and multimedia artist Lido Pimienta with percussionist Brandon Valdivia; a collaboration between Paola Prestini, librettist Royce Vavrek, mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, and painter Natalie Frank in a short film by animator Erin Pollock; multi-instrumentalist Theodosia Roussos in collaboration with the musical group Wild Up (music direction by Christopher Rountree) featuring Adrianne Pope, Andrew McIntosh, Derek Stein, Jiji, and Michael Day, as captured by designer and videographer Hana Kim; and composer/vocalist/pianist Diana Syrse's new work with musicians Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris, Lev Zhurbin, and Jeffrey Zeigler, as documented by filmmaker Mathilde Lavenne. Each piece was performed and recorded in site at the artists' homes or local studios to best capture the immediate flavor and frisson of their unique circumstances. Interviews with the soprano Renée Fleming, Beth Morrison, and Paola Prestini on the future of the form and in-depth features on all of the creative participants will round out the program. Additional performance specifics and artist statements will be released prior to air date.
Co-presented with Beth Morrison Projects.
The broadcast will take place at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific.
Nationwide Free and On-Demand at: bethmorrisonprojects.org, nationalsawdust.org, and allarts.org.
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