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SUMMARY:Solo and Chamber Music of Elliott Carter
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing solo and chamber music of Elliott Carter. \nPROGRAM: \nTwo Thoughts About the Piano\nFigment V for marimba\nEsprit Rude/Esprit Doux II\nEpigrams\nEnchanted Preludes\nGra for clarinet\nCanon for 4 \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: \nAnna Lim – violin\nTom Kraines – cello\nNic Handahl – flute\nJonathan Leeds – clarinet\nDavid Hughes – piano\nAndy Thierauf – marimba \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nComposer Elliott Carter (December 11\, 1908 – November 5\, 2012) is internationally recognized as one of the most influential American voices in classical music\, and a leading figure of modernism in the 20th and 21st centuries. He was hailed as “America’s great musical poet” by Andrew Porter and noted as “one of America’s most distinguished creative artists in any field” by his friend Aaron Copland. Carter’s prolific career spanned over 75 years\, with more than 150 pieces\, ranging from chamber music to orchestral works to opera\, often marked with a sense of wit and humor. He received numerous honors and accolades\, including the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions: in 1960 for his String Quartet No. 2 and in 1973 for his String Quartet No. 3. Other awards include Germany’s Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize and the Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award. Carter was the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts\, and is one of a handful of composers inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. He was recognized twice by the Government of France: being named Commander of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres\,” and receiving the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor in September 2012. \nFounded in 2015\, 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.\nThe Arcana New Music Ensemble is a Philadelphia-based chamber ensemble dedicated to contemporary classical music. Its mission is to perform works by living composers and to reexamine music from the past\, often focusing on composers whose work has been overlooked. A hallmark of Arcana’s programming is its frequent use of portrait concerts\, which allow the ensemble to explore a composer’s work in depth. These programs balance music by widely recognized composers with works by those who are less well known or historically underrepresented. \nFounded in 2015 by musicologist Thomas Patterson\, harpist Elizabeth Huston\, and curator Dustin Hurt\, Arcana was created to provide a platform for Philadelphia’s many skilled performers interested in exploring both new works and important compositions from the past hundred years. Since 2020\, the ensemble has been co-directed by Andy Thierauf and Dustin Hurt.\nIn 2016\, Arcana partnered with Pig Iron Theatre Company to present Samuel Beckett\, Words and Music by Morton Feldman and began a multi-year project devoted to the music of Moondog (Louis Hardin). The following year included a portrait concert of Galina Ustvolskaya\, collaborations with Variant 6 and Prometheus Chamber Orchestra\, and performances of works by Julius Eastman\, including Stay On It\, Femenine\, and Thruway. \nIn 2018\, Arcana presented rare works by Pauline Oliveros and portrait concerts of Tom Johnson\, James Tenney\, and Ben Patterson\, along with a second Moondog program. In 2019\, the ensemble presented concerts focused on Claude Vivier and Johanna Beyer and participated in a program of George Crumb’s chamber works. From 2020 onward\, the ensemble’s programming has included a retrospective of David First\, collaborations with the Wildflowers Composer Festival\, and concerts highlighting Iranian and Iranian-American composers. Recent seasons have featured portrait concerts of Sarah Hennies\, Raven Chacon\, and George Walker\, the launch of the annual Postal Pieces project\, and performances of Pauline Oliveros’s The Well and the Gentle and Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Black Lake. \nSupport for this program provided by the Amphion Foundation
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/solo-and-chamber-music-of-elliott-carter/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:TRANSCENDENCE
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present TRANSCENDENCE\, a duo performance by master percussionists Kweku Sumbry and Shakoor Hakeem at The Perch. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGrounded in the traditions of the Djembe Orchestra\, Kweku Sumbry is a multi-percussionist from Washington\, DC. With the djembe\, drumset\, and a multitude of West African Percussion instruments\, Kweku is bringing forth a new sound to the jazz world. He began his studies as a toddler under the tutelage of Mahiri Fadjimba Keita\, Mamady Keita\, and Djiali Djimo Kouyate.\nKweku is a member of the Immanuel Wilkins Quartet\, and has performed alongside Ambrose Akinmusire\, Yosvany Terry\, Cyrus Chestnut\, Solange\, Shabaka Hutchings\, and Reggie Workman\, to name a few. \nFearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem\, a prolific up-and-coming talent\, has a gift for making experimental\, Afro-diasporan\, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the cultural traditions of mysticism and folklore\, within which are contained the secrets of his elders. The mythical experience of his stage presence evokes feelings that you are witness to a ceremonial gathering\, of an ancient rhythmic history. In building this\, he has long supported many of the most forward-thinking legendary improvisers\, including Graham Haynes\, Immanual Wilkins\, Maria Grand\, Joel Ross\, Adam Rudolph\, Bobby Zankel and Wallace Roney. Performing live with these great artists\, he refrains from overplaying and prefers minimalism\, playing with the musical and compositional contexts of colors and texture\, delivering limited solos\, all while occupying the eye of the hurricane. \n\n\nOrganized in collaboration with World Askew
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/transcendence/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:SQUANDERERS
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present SQUANDERERS\, the glowingly new trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer. The evening will open with a solo set by Jason Calhoun. \n7:00pm Doors\n7:30pm Show \nTheir debut LP If a Body Meet a Body appeared on Shimmy-Disc in November 2024\, and the group performed at the 2025 Big Ears festival. A second album\, Skantagio\, is forthcoming from Shimmy-Disc in August 2025. Squanderers first sprung into action as the duo of Kramer and Grubbs with the single “Congress of Poodles” b/w “Lendrick Muir Bible Study Weekend\,” part of Kramer’s 2023 Shimmy-Disc box set Rings of Saturn. SQUANDERERS now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg\, a dream of a foil to Grubbs’s grubbslike guitarisms\, setting the scene for Kramer to follow his musical divining rod. Divining urges not dirges. In Grubbs’s book-length poem\, The Voice in the Headphones\, “Squanderer” is the nickname that most deeply troubles of the book’s unnamed protagonist: “Hang your head\, Squanderer. You’ll never darken the doorway of Studio A.” Will this trio of inveterate SQUANDERERS redeem themselves? \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nWendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar\, pedals\, the tenor banjo\, the\ncomputer\, the synthesizer\, and the voice. Their work spans genres\, from jazz to noise to avant-\nrock to delicate songs; their performances span venues\, from international festivals to intimate\nbasements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser\, with acclaimed\nreleases on Tzadik\, Ba Da Bing\, VDSQ\, Out of your Head\, and Dear Life\, they also perform in\nthe rock band Editrix\, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Bill\nOrcutt\, Caroline Davis\, Carla Kihlstedt\, John Zorn\, Billy Martin\, and Allison Miller. They also\nwrite about music and other things\, with published essays on music in Sound American\, Arcana\nXIII\, and the Contemporary Music Review. \nDavid Grubbs has released sixteen solo albums and was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol\,\nBastro\, and Squirrel Bait. He has performed with Tony Conrad\, Pauline Oliveros\, Luc Ferrari\,\nSusan Howe\, Will Oldham\, the Red Krayola\, and many others. Grubbs is Distinguished\nProfessor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, and author of books\nincluding Good night the pleasure was ours\, The Voice in the Headphones\, Now that the\naudience is assembled\, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage\, the Sixties\, and Sound\nRecording. \nKramer is a composer/musician/filmmaker and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with\nartists as diverse as John Zorn\, Butthole Surfers\, Bill Frisell\, Ween\, The Fugs\, Thurston Moore\,\nPenn Jillette\, Allen Ginsberg\, Jad Fair\, and Laraaji\, to name but a few. He is also a renowned\nrecord producer (Galaxie 500\, Low\, Daniel Johnston\, Will Oldham\, etc.) and the founder of the\niconic NYC record label\, Shimmy-Disc. He rarely performs onstage\, and Squanderers is his first\nlong-term recording project to include live performances since 1999. He currently lives and\nworks in the Appalachian Temperate Rainforest. \nThe hallmark of jason calhoun’s music–either under his given name or under the naps alias–is an emotional resonance that allows fragility and perseverance to occupy the same space. Though humble in his approach\, calhoun has done something quietly extraordinary in building a body of work that\, unlike so much music that seeks to transport you elsewhere\, instead asks you to check in with yourself. \nIf A Body Meet A Body by SQUANDERERS \na four part cure by jason calhoun + foresteppe
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/squanderers/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Elias Stemeseder\, Kris Chen Lil’Injure\, Shakoor Hakeem Trio
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES\, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE \nBowerbird is pleased to present the Elias Stemeseder\, Kris Chen Lil’Injure\, Shakoor Hakeem Trio at The Perch. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nKris Chen Lil’Injure was born 1984 in Lübben and is a drummer\, composer and representative of the modern creative style and new improvisational music. From 2000 to 2004 Lillinger studied at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber at Dresden. He plays in the trio Gropper | Graupe | Lil’Injure\, with the saxophonist Philipp Gropper and the guitarist Ronny Graupe. \nIn 2008\, he arranged his first band Kris Chen Lil’Injure’s Grund\, whose first first two records were released in late 2009 and 2013. Since 2004 he has been working in the EUPHORIUM\, the Ensemble of Contemporary Performing Arts and Music. Since 2009 he founded several projects and bands in which he collaborated with numerous well-known artists. Kris Chen Lil’Injure published different albums in cooperation with other musicians and international jazz lables. \nElias Stemeseder is a pianist\, keyboard instrumentalist\, electronic musician and composer with an interest in synthesizing musical thought\, discipline and tools from diverse time periods and geographic origins to create original sonic ordering principles. Performing on historic and contemporary (keyboard-) instruments\, Stemeseder is part of the ensembles Stemeseder-Lillinger\, Neon Dilemma\, WRENS and the Elias Stemeseder Trio. He also works alongside luminaries such as Anna Webber\, Adam O’Farrill\, Craig Taborn\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Thomas Morgan and Peter Evans\, performs as a soloist\, and is a recording artist for Intakt Records. \nFearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem\, a prolific up-and-coming talent\, has a gift for making experimental\, Afro-diasporan\, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the cultural traditions of mysticism and folklore\, within which are contained the secrets of his elders. The mythical experience of his stage presence evokes feelings that you are witness to a ceremonial gathering\, of an ancient rhythmic history. In building this\, he has long supported many of the most forward-thinking legendary improvisers\, including Graham Haynes\, Immanual Wilkins\, Joel Ross\, Adam Rudolph\, Bobby Zankel and Wallace Roney. Performing live with these great artists\, he refrains from overplaying and prefers minimalism\, playing with the musical and compositional contexts of colors and texture\, delivering limited solos\, all while occupying the eye of the hurricane. \n\n\n\n\nOrganized in collaboration with World Askew
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/postponed-the-elias-stemeseder-kris-chen-lilinjure-shakoor-hakeem-trio/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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