METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE AT ECSTATIC MUSIC
Gaby Moreno with LADAMA & Metropolis Ensemble: "¡Spangled!"
Monday, December 2, 2019
Merkin Concert Hall / Kaufman Music Center / 129 W 67th St / New York, NY
7:30pm show
Tickets: $25 / $20 per 2 Ecstatic Concerts / $162 9-Concert Ecstatic Pass
The women of Latin Alternative quartet LADAMA open the set with their own music ("a vivid montage of music of the Americas with irresistible spirit and universal appeal” – NPR) and then join the Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno (Latin Grammy Winner and Emmy-Nominated composer to the music to Parks and Recreation) and the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble (Elinor Rufeizen, guest conductor) to perform music from ¡Spangled!. Just released this fall, Moreno's collaborative Nonesuch album with American musician, songwriter, arranger and producer Van Dyke Parks celebrates the migration of song across the Americas and spans more than a century, including a bolero from Panama, a bossa nova from Brazil and anelegiac ballad from the Southwest United States. The award-winning cuatro player, mandolinist and musical producer Jorge Glem – one of Venezuela’s musical treasures – will join Gaby for several songs.
The only music series that exclusively presents new work resulting from collaborations, Ecstatic Music has been hailed as “a who's who of the music scene” (WQXR) and "audacious combinations and post-genre hybrids" (The New Yorker). The Ecstatic Music series is curated by composer Judd Greenstein.
on the program
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: El Sombreron
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: I'll Take a Tango
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: O Cantador
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Historia de un Amor
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Alma Llanera
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Across the Borderline
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Esperame en el Cielo
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Nube Gris
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: The Immigrants
Gaby Moreno/Van Dyke Parks: Esperando Na Janela
LADAMA: Porro Maracatu
LADAMA: Compared to what
LADAMA: Elo
LADAMA: Pajarillo
LADAMA: Tierra Tiembla
LADAMA: Sin ataduras
LADAMA: Inmigrante
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