2008
SERIAL UNDERGROUND
at the Cornelia Street Café
8:30 PM
Mon Jan 14
Elliott Sharp, iconoclastic composer/instrumentalist, plays
a new solo piece for soprano sax.
Installment #1 of Jeanne, a new opera by Justine F. Chen
based on the life and
times
of
Jeanne
d'Arc.
Jed Distler plays B-A-G-D-A-D by Milos Raickovich and
Fantasy by Frederic Rzewski, two works for piano with a message.
Tom
Bolster – wild card and family guy.
Mon Feb 11
Allsar Quartet – artists-in-residence Erik Carlson and Arnie Weiss
violin, Miranda Sielaff viola, Chris Gross cello.
Installment #2 of Jeanne, a new opera by Justine Chen based on the life and
times
of
Jeanne
d'Arc.
Scene from a dirty opera found by the wayside.
Deborah Atherton spins an anti-Valentine story.
Mon Mar 10
Installment #3 of Calling, a quasi-opera
by composer/performer Doug
Geers and writer Wickham
Boyle.
Allsar Quartet – artists-in-residence Erik Carlson and Arnie Weiss violin,
Miranda Sielaff viola, Chris Gross cello - performs Sybil, a really cool piece
by Matthew Barson, chock full of natural harmonics.
Rachelle Garniez, the incomparable singer, songwriter, accordionist and more.
Erin Heisel performs music from Jed Distler's song book, with the composer
on piano.
Mon Apr 14
Seraphim - Gilda Lyons and Elaine Valby vox, Robert La Rue cello
Allsar Quartet – artists-in-residence Erik Carlson and Arnie Weiss
violin, Miranda Sielaff viola, Jane O'Hara cello.
Vento Trio – Janet Grice bassoon, Sarah Koval clarinet, Kevin Willois
flute - with Daisy Farnum and Elizabeth Press vox, Caitlin Warbelow violin,
David Mancuso percussion, perform the world premiere of Nuevo Sean-Nós
by Mark N. Grant, and traditional Brazilian music.
Mon May 12
Jody Redhage cello and Chie Roden piano play the music of Yoichi Togawa
Nouveau-experimental duo Spin-17 (Motoko Shimizu vox, Ed Chang guitar)
play an eclectic mix of covers
William Fowkes tells it like it is
Plus a shout-out from poet Aja Monet – the youngest Nuyorican grandslam champion
Mon June 9
Close Encounters of the Electronic Kind:
Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland with guest composer/clarinetist
Michael
Lowenstern
Regie Cabico, poet, spoken word artist, artistic director of Washington DC based
theater Sol Y Soul, curator extraordinaire, was a prisoner in a fortune cookie
factory.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Clifton Hyde (Lap Steel Guitar), Robyn Siwula(viola)
and Motoko Shimizu (voice, toys, melodica) rip through sordid cabaret
songs.
MAKE MUSIC NY with CCi
on Cornelia Street, NYC
Sat June 21
Curated by CCi with Carlo Altomare, Patrick Grant and Stephanie Griffin
With composers: Amy X Neuburg, Carl Maguire,
Carlo Altomare, Chris Becker, Clarice Assad, Daron Hagen, David First, David
Hanlon, David Simons, Eve Beglarian,
Eyvind Kang,
Gilda Lyons, Jed Distler, John Ferrari, Joseph Pehrson, Joshua Fried, Justine
F. Chen, Kamala Sankaram, Kitty Brazelton, Laura Andel, Lisa Karrer, Marc Mellits,
Matt Sullivan, Miguel Frasconi, Molly Thompson, Pamela Z, Patrick Grant, Rachelle
Garniez, Randall Woolf, Sima Wolf.
2008 NON SEQUITUR Summer Festival
at The Flea Theater, NYC
Aug 18-24
Program soon to be posted.
SERIAL UNDERGROUND and NON SEQUITUR
director: Arnold Barkus
music director: Jed
Distler, artistic director
lighting and set design: David
Lovett
literary curator (Non Sequitur): Regie
Cabico
guest curators
(Serial Underground): Matt
Sullivan & Ken Cro-ken
sound engineer: Gregory Kostroff,
Joemca
video documentation: Carlton Bright,
Meredith Drum
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Tickets for CCi's Serial Underground
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