Bowerbird is pleased to present Arcana New Music Ensemble’s Postcard Concert featuring postcard-sized works by Philadelphia area composers. The ensemble commissioned works by nine local composers based on the postcard compositions of James Tenney in 1971.

PROGRAM

James Tenney: Swell Piece
David Middleton: All the Alleys Home
Andrea Clearfield: The Rest Between Two Notes
Erin Busch: wave tones
Natacha Diels: watermusic
Sepehr Pirasteh: New Norm
James Diaz: total internal reflection
Adam Vidiksis: Orbital Mechanics
Gene Coleman: Rippling Waves
Nick Millevoi: Greetings from the Alligator Farm

ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Nicholas Handahl, flute
Aaron Stewart, saxophone(s)
Tessa Ellis, trumpet
Jay Krush, tuba
Erin Busch, cello
Andy Thierauf, percussion

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Founded in 2016, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music in interesting, beautiful, and unconventional places.
Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Composers featured in recent programs include Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Raven Chacon, Anahita Abbasi, Morton Feldman, Galina Ustvolskaya, Pauline Oliveros, Tom Johnson, Moondog, and James Tenney. Arcana has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fleisher Art Memorial, The Rotunda, The Kitchen (NYC), and collaborated with Variant Six, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, Pig Iron Theater Company, and Wildflower Composers.

Support provided by The Presser Foundation