photo: Paula Court

2008


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SERIAL UNDERGROUND
"the subversive nightclub series" (Time Out NY)
at the Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street (betw. 6th and 7th Ave), NYC



Septempber 8
Ed Schmidt - The Normal Distribution, preview (theater) - comic story #1
Jed Distler - The Gold Standard (excerpt), Anthem at Woodstock - composer/pianist
Motoko Shimizu of SPIN-17 w .Ben Miller - vox & toys, prepared stereo guitar & electronics

October 13
Three, Two, One-BANG! - Macbeth redux by Justine F. Chen (new opera)
w. a painterly response by Rebecca Degenhardt
Ed Schmidt - more of The Normal Distribution - comic story #2

November 10
TILT SIXtet - big bad brass with music of Chris McIntyre, John King and others
Ed Schmidt - The Normal Distribution - comic story #3
Motoko Shimizu - the girl of 1,000 voices
Jed Distler plays new piece for piano to celebrate the 40th of a Very Famous album

December 8 - a Birthday bash!
Jed and Regie Cabico, irrepressible CCi Literary Collaborator and curator, HOST, spoken word artist, writer, poet, Sultan of Slam play selections from their songbook
Ed Schmidt - Dear Santa: an epistolary melodrama
Miranda Sielaff and colleagues by Amie Weiss, Kristi Helberg, and Jane Cords-O'Hara- play String Quartet No. 1 by Jed Distler (Mister Softee variations)
Jed Distler plays excerpts from The Gold Standard for piano: cover letter and Dance Class in Queens by Ed Schmidt and Jed Distler (2007)
Regie Cabico, irrepressible CCi Literary collaborator and curator, HOST, spoken word artist, writer, poet, Sultan of Slam
Elllen Kaye & Jed Distler, the notorious duo together again




2009
January 12
David T. Little -( preview/new opera) Irrepressible, the story of the Molly Maguires
NEWSPEAK - reprise of NON Sequitur 2008 commission
Tom Bolster -(preview/new monologue)
Jenny Lin -The Art of the Etude, for piano of course

Sunday
June 21
Make Music NY on Cornelia Street -(presented by the Cornelia Street Cafe & Composers Collaborative (between 4 and 6:00 pm). Celebrate FREE music on the street with premiere ofDutch composer Simeon ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinado” for 4 pianos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2sTQCGokqo)
Performed by Jed Distler, Maarija Ilic, Sachiko Kato and Jung Lin, all keyed up for MMNY


February 9
same line-up, new music!
David T. Little -( preview/new opera) Irrepressible, the story of the Molly Maguires
NEWSPEAK - reprise of NON Sequitur 2008 commission
Tom Bolster -(preview/new monologue)
Jenny Lin -The Art of the Etude, for piano of course

March 9
more of the artists you love, plus the diva with a difference, Rachelle Garniez
David T. Little -( preview/new opera) Irreepressible, the story of the Molly Maguires
NEWSPEAK - reprise of NON Sequitur 2008 commission
Tom Bolster -(preview/new monologue)
Jenny Lin -The Art of the Etude, for piano of course

April 13
Rachelle Garniez -the diva with a difference and an accordion
Jed Distler - (pianist/composer) counteRevolution, new BIG work for piano
Plus surprise guests!

May 11
Bartleby - ((new opera/preview) by composer Melissa Pausina for the Momenta Quartet
Rachelle Garniez -the diva with a difference and an accordion
Jed Distler -(pianist/composer) counteRevolution, new BIG work for piano
Deborah Atherton - reads Pearls, a story for Mother's Day (writer)

June 8
Gilda Lyons - excerpt of new opera for the vocal trio Seraphim
Matthew Greenbaum - (preview/new opera) Footnote to HOWL
Jed Distler - (pianist/composer) counteRevolution, new BIG work for piano


The CCi Dream Team
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


BOX OFFICE:
SERIAL UNDERGROUND
at The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and West 4th), NYC
www.ticketweb.org

212-663-1967
Music Charge $15 general admission / $10 students & seniors
Plus a one-drink Minimum at the venue

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CCi activities made possible with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Cultural Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Sparkplug Foundation and JPMorganChase Regrant Program for Small Ensembles managed by Meet The Composer; and generous individual contributions.

Last updated 9/10/2008