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Performance and Conversation: praCh: It's a Movement
Saturday, September 22, 2007, 7 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Explore global cultural movements "in a poetry way" with Khmer American rapper praCh Ly. The artist praCh relays stories of Cambodian journeys that blend the traditions of his homeland with American hip hop. Join him for a Q&A session after this evening performance and for an afternoon gallery talk at 2 pm (see Tours, Talks and Lectures page). Free tickets are required. Two free tickets per person are distributed at the Meyer Auditorium one hour before show time.
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Premiere Works: Music From China Ensemble
Sunday, November 4, 2007, 2 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Pre-concert gallery tour, 1:15 pm.
Hear prize-winning compositions from the 2007 Music From China International Composers Competition, featuring new music written for Chinese traditional instruments. Following its performance in New York, the concert of award-winners from the seventeenth annual competition comes to the Freer for the first time. The Music From China Ensemble is led by Artistic Director Wang Guowei and Music Director Zhou Long.
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Musicians from Marlboro
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:30 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Outstanding musicians from the venerable Marlboro Music Festival return for their fourteenth season at the Freer Gallery. Flutist Marina Piccinini is joined by violinists Soovin Kim and Colin Jacobsen, violists Maurycy Banaszek and Rebecca Albers, and cellist Earl Lee for performances of Kodaly's Serenade, op. 12, and Beethoven's Serenade, op. 25 and String Quintet, op. 29.
The Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series is generously supported by Elizabeth E. Meyer, Melissa and E. Bradley Meyer, the New York Community Trust?The Island Fund, Victor and Takako Hauge, the Meyer Concert Series Endowment, and numerous additional supporters.
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Kinsmen/Svajanam: Dakshina Ensemble
Saturday, November 10, 2007, 7:30 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Pre-concert gallery tour, 6:45 pm.
One of America's most adventuresome jazz saxophonists meets a legend of Indian classical music in this innovative encounter between musical cultures. Rudresh Mahanthappa has been named a "rising star" in jazz by Downbeat magazine for the last four years, while Kadri Gopalnath single-handedly introduced the saxophone into South Indian classical music. JazzTimes called this collaboration a "visionary work.boldly breaking some exciting new ground." Joining them for this intriguing concert are South Indian violinist A. Kanyakumari, guitarist Rez Abbasi, bassist Carlo deRosa, and drummer Royal Hartigan. Kinsmen/Svajanam was commissioned by the Asia Society, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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ModernWorks, with guest artist Margaret Leng Tan
Thursday, November 29, 2007, 7:30 pm, Meyer Auditorium
Pre-concert gallery tour, 6:45 pm.
Five of New York's most accomplished interpreters of new music devote an entire evening to the highly original music of Ge Gan-ru, who is sometimes called China's first avant-garde composer. The ModernWorks ensemble performs Ge's first and fourth string quartets and gives the world premiere of the fifth. They appear with Margaret Leng Tan, who delivers the world premiere of Ge's music-melodrama "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!" a sonic tour-de-force for voice and toy orchestra, inspired by a Song dynasty poem about love denied.
The Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series is generously supported by Elizabeth E. Meyer, Melissa and E. Bradley Meyer, the New York Community Trust?The Island Fund, Victor and Takako Hauge, the Meyer Concert Series Endowment, and numerous additional supporters. |
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