Contemporary Music Ensemble
When:
Friday, May 17, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: $8 general public / $5 students
Contact:
Concert Management Office
(847) 467-4000
Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter, conductors; Steven Kazuo Takasugi, guest composer
The Contemporary Music Ensemble's May performance features a new work by student composer Casey Weisman, James Tenney's microtonal 'Scend for Scelsi, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi's Sideshow for amplified ensemble and electronic playback. Takasugi's theatrical work, inspired by Coney Island's early-20th-century sideshow entertainment, examines the intersection of spectacle and sacrifice in the name of showbusiness. The composer explains, "The performers think of themselves as characters in a sideshow. The saxophonist is the Sideshow Giant...the violist is a sword swallower...the pianist is the Human Spider...the percussionist is the Sideshow Proprietor/Announcer. Each character...has his or her uncanny double, twin, imposter, accomplice, copycat, deformed clone."
A new work by Casey Weisman
James Tenney, ‘Scend for Scelsi
Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Sideshow