A Series on Critical Motivations and Solutions
October 2018—February 2019
Light is a multi-part concert series from composer and performer Molly Joyce, featuring innovative and eclectic musicians of our time. The series includes programs from a new composer collective, advocacy-focused initiative, and works performed by the composers themselves.
The series will spotlight critical motivations, processes, and creative solutions composers and performing artists employ in developing and presenting work that is artistically grounded, socially motivated, and culturally driven.
Banner photo by Leo Castaneda.
Kinds of Strings
October 15, 2018 (7pm)
One Rivington NYC
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students
The series begins with the newly-formed composers collective, Kinds of Kings. The group, comprised of six young composers, will be presenting two programs at 1 Rivington beginning with KINDS OF STRINGS, an interactive performance-reading featuring quartets from the collective performed by the Desdemona Quartet, with live introductions from the composers. This program reflects on themes of mortality, place, race in America, and of the marginalization and erasure of women throughout history.
On the Program:
Susanna Hancock: Platforms
Emma O'Halloran: Dying is a Wild Night
Shelley Washington: SAY
Finola Merivale: Do You Hear Me Now?
Maria Kaoutzani: jaune doré
Gemma Peacocke: Erasure
FURL
December 9, 2018 (5pm)
One Rivington NYC
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students / free for members
Kinds of Kings continues at 1 Rivington on Sunday, Dec. 9 with FURL,
Furl is the second installment of a 2-part collaboration between composer collective Kinds of Kings and Metropolis Ensemble, as part of Molly Joyce’s Light series with Metropolis Ensemble. Featuring guitarists Jay Sorce and Jordan Dodson, cellist JoAnn Whang, clarinetist Mark Dover, and saxophonist Kendra Emery, the program brings together pieces ranging from the riotous to the introspective. Furl is a concert project for a colorful array of chamber and solo works for electric guitars, saxophone, electronics, voice, clarinet, and cello, in a collaboration Metropolis Ensemble artists.
On the Program:
Shelley Washington: MO'INGUS for solo baritone saxophone
Emma O'Halloran: Truth and Beauty for clarinet and fixed electronics
Maria Kaoutzani: Conversation for solo cello
Gemma Peacocke: Amygdala for cello and fixed electronics
Susanna Hancock: Blossom and Furl for guitar duo
Finola Merivale: Beautiful Mess for solo tenor saxophone and live electronics
Soloicity
February 7, 2019 (7pm)
One Rivington NYC
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students / free for members
Light concludes with a night of composer-performer sets, with styles ranging from folk to pop to experimental, and seemingly everything in-between. Composer/performers include Lea Bertucci, Carla Canales, Margaret Davis, Liz Faure, Sarah Goldfeather, Molly Joyce, Anna Meadors, Angélica Negrón, and Emily Wells.
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