Chances With Wolves
Events with Chances With Wolves
Season 3 Opening Weekend: Jackie, Live Score
Sept 22, 2017 - 8:00pm In a nod to U.S. President and A Nation of Immigrants author John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday, Wordless Music Orchestra and National Sawdust co-present a film screening of JACKIE with exhilarating live score accompaniment by the Wordless Music Orchestra.
Lavinia Meijer
October 19, 2016 - 10:00pm Lavinia Meijer (1983), winner of the Dutch Music Prize 2009, is one of the most diverse harpists of today. After her debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York in 2007, she is invited regularly to perform as a soloist in Europe, Asia and America. She collaborated with famous composers such as Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi, The Hours) and Ludovico Einaudi (Untouchables, Black Swan).
The Revolution Vol. 44: RINI, Wayne Tucker, & Jill Peacock
November 14th
Spring Revolution: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Mar 10, 2016 - 7:00pm Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue and his innovative 18-piece big band Secret Society set will be 40-minute piece "Tensile Curves," which was was written in honor of, and performed at, Newport's 60th anniversary in 2014.
New Music for Strings at National Sawdust
June 28, 2017 - 10pm To kick off the NS summer season, Stony Brook University presents the New Music for Strings festival (June 28), which brings together performers and the work of living American and Scandinavian composers. Featuring violinist and subharmonics founder Mari Kimura, the all-female Parhelion Trio, the Steinem Quartet, and Scandinavian violinist Anne Sophie Andersen, the concert is one of six NMFS performances, and represents the first festival of its kind in the world.
NS+ PUSSY RIOT THEATRE: Revolution
March 17, 2016 - 10:00pm Pussy Riot presents its new music-theater project, PUSSY RIOT THEATRE. They will perform the East Coast premiere of a new piece, “Revolution”, based on the book of Maria Alyokhina – one of the leaders of Pussy Riot. This is Maria’s personal story of Pussy Riot, including their legendary protest punk actions in balaclavas, hiding from police, their arrest, time in a Moscow jail and police investigation, trial and sentencing to a remote penal colony. The roster of performers will include Maria Alyokhina herself, Kiryl Kanstantsinau, AWOTT (Asian Women On The Telephone) psycho-punk music duo, and VJ Vasily Bogatov. The hour-long piece about protest art and political activism in a hostile state will be directed by Yury Muravitsky and produced by Alexander Cheparukhin, with video footage by Taisia Krugovykh and video art by Katya Sсheglova. The NS+ evening will end with a conversation with members of the creative team.
