In Situ: American Modern Ensemble Awards Night
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Friday, April 29th 7pm
Every season, AME holds three competitions for American composers of ALL ages. Winners receive performances, with recordings and cash awards.
AME Awards Night features winners: Katherine Balch, Hillary Purrington, Vincent Gover, Nicholas Omiccioli, John Fitz Rogers, Gabriella Smith, as well as music by Robert Paterson and Whitney George.
Special Guest Soprano, AMY JUSTMAN
Sato Moughalian, flute
Keve Wilson, oboe
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Charles McCracken, bassoon
Blair McMillen, piano
Matt Ward, percussion
Esther Noh, violin | Victoria Paterson, violin
Jessica Meyer, viola | Arash Amini, cello
Roger Wagner, bass
Robert Paterson, conductor
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In Situ: Digital City
June 04, 2016 - 10pm National Sawdust invites you to DIGITAL CITY, an improvisatory electro-acoustic evening that weaves the listener through layers of pulsating grooves and radiant harmonies. Featuring music by Ricardo Romaneiro in performance with members of Sandbox Percussion, Jacqui Kerrod (harp loops), Vasko Dukovski (bass clarinet), Leo Leite (sound engineer), NoisioN (analog synths) & David Zisa (modular synth). Accompanied by live visual projections by Mau.
The Tell: Vol. 10
July 17, 2016 - 8:00pm Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.
In Situ: Brother Outsider Screening
June 10, 2016 - 7:00pm Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 international awards and honors, Brother Outsider illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary activist and strategist who has been called “the invisible man” and “the unknown hero” of the civil rights movement. A disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. A talented tenor who sang in Josh White’s quartet and appeared on Broadway with Paul Robeson in the 1930s, Rustin used singing as a central element in his lifelong advocacy for social change. In 2013, Rustin received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest civilian honor — from Barack Obama, who described him as “an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity, and equality for all who fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad… As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.”
Jazztopad Festival Presents: Lutosławski Quartet & Uri Caine
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In Situ: Fellow Travelers
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In Situ: John Paul White + The Secret Sisters
June 21, 2016 - 7:00pm John Paul White is a Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter who proudly resides in Florence, Alabama. As one half of the critically acclaimed The Civil Wars, White toured the world and introduced millions to his music. Now, he’s a co-founder of Single Lock Records, an independent record label based in the Shoals.
Kaze (The Wind) by Mari Kimura/Harmonic Constellations by Michael Harrison
June 09, 2016 - 7:00pm This event celebrates two world premieres, two CD release launches and a debut of our original wearable motion sensor named µgic (pronounced mu-zik).
Sacred Geometry
July 16, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust invites you to Sacred Geometry, a meditative electro-acoustic improvisation on visual sound patterns generated by resonances of sound waves. Music by Ricardo Romaneiro with live projections by Christian Hannon.
The Revolution Vol. 5
July 23, 2016 - 8:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of the evolution within their genre.
In Situ: Norman Krieger
Mar 20, 2016 - 12:00pm Krieger’s recital is a celebration of the virtuosic pianist/composers who, for the last two centuries, have written influential music for the piano. Through their work, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Lazarof celebrate the infinite myriads of dynamics, color, passion and what is often called the universal language.
In Situ: Aerial East Record Release
May 10, 2016 - 10:00pm May 10th will be the celebration of the long anticipated release of Rooms and the first and only concert dedicated to performing the record as close to the original as possible with a full band including strings and clarinet.
Jon Gibson & Britton Powell
July 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Jon Gibson and Britton Powell are composers based in New York City.
