METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE CO-PRESENTATION
ORACLE HYSTERICAL + HUB NEW MUSIC
TERRA NOVA
(workshop performance)
Friday, January 17, 2020
1 Rivington Street / 2nd Floor (Buzzer #1) / New York, NY 10011
5:30pm doors / 6:00pm show
Tickets: $20 general / $10 students (free for members, RSVP required)
Composer-collective Oracle Hysterical, with collaborators Hub New Music, are creating an evening-length collection of songs inspired by the expeditions of a wide-ranging group of ambitious, gritty – and often naive, cruel, and myopic explorers. Text comes from the journals of European ‘New World’ explorers like Columbus, Cortes, and de Soto; Puritan women on their new frontier; the naturalist John James Audubon; the ill-fated Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott (whose Terra Nova expedition party never made it home); the ancient king Gilgamesh and his quest to cheat death; and the Chinese mariner, treasure seeker, and builder of giant ships Zheng He.
These authors and subjects, captivated by unchartered territory, share an often combustible mix of guts, ego, naivete, greed, and unwavering determination. The results of their discoveries range from beautiful to terrifying, or sometimes both.
Banner image credit: David Scher
on the program
Majel Connery: Flyers fly / All the Way Down*
Brad Balliett: Wood Warbles*
Dylan Hunter Chee Greene: When China discovered the world*
Majel Connery: Fallen Angel*
Dylan Hunter Chee Greene: Laundry and Cooking*
Douglas Balliett: Spanish Requirement of 1513*
Elliot Cole: Terra Nova*
*World Premiere
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