Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Central to the new-music experience in New York.
– Time Out NY
Heather Kravas overly merry
May 3, 4, & 5, 2024
5/3 – 7:00pm
5/4 & 5 – 2:00pm
Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City
TILT Brass Kravas Band
Jen Baker, Terry Green II, Sam Kulik, Chris McIntyre – trombone; Kavi McIntyre – trumpet; Ryan Sawyer, Dennis Sullivan – perc.
Drawing by Valentina Starkie, inspired by Remy Charlip
Huang Ruo, composer
David Henry Hwang, librettist
Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Chay Yew, director
Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Performance #1, 3pm
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – Performance #2, 7pm
Thursday, May 16, 2024 – Performance #3, 7pm
Saturday, May 18, 2024 – Performance #4, 8pm
Sunday, May 19, 2024 – Performance #5, 3pm
PAC Event Page
On October 3, 2011, Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Afghanistan. Based on his story and the ensuing courts-martial of Chen’s fellow soldiers, this New York City premiere opera tells the powerful true story of a young soldier from Manhattan’s Chinatown who sought to serve his country, only to find his biggest threat was the very people who swore to protect him.
Told through the multidimensional music of Huang Ruo (M. Butterfly, Book of Mountains and Seas) with libretto by Tony and Grammy winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Soft Power), and directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Cambodian Rock Band, Sweatshop Overlord), An American Soldier is a powerful and unforgettable experience.
Co-Produced by PAC NYC, Boston Lyric Opera, and American Composers Orchestra.
The 2024 version was co-commissioned by PAC NYC and Boston Lyric Opera.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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PROGRAM
Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
Currents (1967)
string quartet
Four (1965)
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano
Music for Nine Players and Soprano Voice (1977)
soprano, alto flute, English horn, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, piano,
cello, double bass, percussion
Psalm of Akhnaten; ca. 1365-1348 B.C. (1978)
mezzo soprano, flutes, piano
Scope-Seven (1965)
piano solo
Either/Or (EO) and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) co-present and collaborate on a program of works by legendary Society of Black Composers co-founder Talib Rasul Hakim. Following the performance, a panel discussion featuring three MacArthur composers— Courtney Bryan, Tyshawn Sorey, and ICE AD George Lewis — and EO’s Richard Carrick and Chris McIntyre will discuss the history and ongoing impact of Hakim’s work.
Before his untimely passing, Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-88) was already becoming a widely influential composer, one who suffused his music for chamber and orchestral forces with intense deliberation, considered improvisations, dynamic rhythmic profiles, and purposeful silences. Hakim saw his compositions as more than just music: he saw music performance as the equivalent to an almost religious awakening. In the 1978 book The Black Composer Speaks, Hakim maintained, “It is hoped that whenever [my] music is performed, both performer and listener will experience some degree of inner stirring, that they will experience some philosophical, religious, political, emotional, intellectual experience.”
In this program, ICE and Either/Or present five diverse aspects of Hakim’s artistry that consider music as an encounter with the divine. The program includes performances of Psalm of Akhnaten; ca. 1365-1348 B.C. (1978), an imposing trio work that features a searching articulation of faith, mysticism, and spirituality; Currents (1967), his masterful entry to the string quartet canon; Scope-Seven (1965), an enigmatic solo piano work recently discovered within the vast holdings of the Library for the Performing Arts; Four (1965) for quartet; and Music for Nine Players and Soprano Voice (1977), which features the combined forces of ICE and Either/Or performers.
PERSONNEL
Either/Or
Richard Carrick, conductor
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
Pala Garcia, violin
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Chris McIntyre, trombone
John Popham, cello
Kal Sugatski, viola
International Contemporary Ensemble
Fay Victor, mezzo-soprano
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Nicolee Kuester, horn
Cory Smythe, piano
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Panel
Courtney Bryan, composer; Tyshawn Sorey, composer; Richard Carrick, Director, Either/Or ; Chris McIntyre, Curator, Either/Or; George Lewis, Artistic Director, ICE
Image of Mr. Hakim from the William A. Brown Collection, courtesy of the Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago
Supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound.org.
Made possible in part through lead support from Arlene and Larry Dunn Fund for Afrodiasporic Music and the Cheswatyr Foundation.
Quotes:
"Chris McIntyre’s new edition of [Julius Eastman's Trumpet]... successfully brought across the vivid variety of approaches in many Eastman works."
New York Times (Feb. '18)
"Chris McIntyre has played a signal role in the much heralded recent rediscovery... of works by Julius Eastman" New Yorker (Sep. '18)
"Christopher McIntyre brought formidable sensitivity to parts that were often painfully self-effacing"
New York Times (June '15)
"The Fifth [Berio Sequenza], for trombone, limns the instrument’s capacity for robust humor with melancholy undercurrents; Chris McIntyre gave full measure to both in a poignant interpretation."
New York Times (Dec. '10)
TILT Brass, a "vital new-music ensemble"
Time Out New York (Aug. '10)
"...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York."
Time Out New York (Nov. '09)
"...the most important and engaging individuals are often those who serve a sinuous and binding role, i.e. those whose work within the field codifies a disparate mass into this thing that we call 'the new music community'. Chris McIntyre is one of those people."
NewMusicBox (July '09)
McIntyre's composition Raster for quintet one of many "incredible discoveries" during 2009 MATA Festival
NewMusicBox (April '09)
FEATURES
Open Forms podcast - Chris McIntyre on Julius Eastman
Talea Ensemble pocast, interviewed by Tori Chea; Released June 30, 2021
An Experimental Music Ensemble Won’t Just Fade Away
(NY Times interview about Ne(x)tworks final concert on 10/24/2019) - Oct. 23, 2019
Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo
(NY Times interview with McIntyre about his transcription of Julilus Eastman's 1970 work Trumpet) - Jan. 19, 2018
Chris McIntyre - Integral Force (NewMusicBox) - July 22, 2009
Ne(x)tworks profile (Time Out New York) - April 9, 2008
REVIEWS
TILT Brass:
Gentler State of Communion (NY Times review of Julius Eastman's Trumpet at The Kitchen, 180203)
Review: Richard Barrett Brings His Electronic Scores to Spectrum (NY Times, 150625)
TILT Brass Offers Five Premieres at Concert at Roulette (NY Times, 130627)
A Blast of Brass on a Block of Greenwich Townhouses (ICIYL, 120530)
FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC (NY Times, 120921)
Ne(x)tworks:
An Experimental Music Ensemble Won’t Just Fade Away (NY Times by Steve Smith) - Oct. 23, 2019
Continuing a Celebration of a Composer (and Godfather) - Ne(x)tworks perf. Earle Brown (NY Times by Steve Smith) - April 19, 2007
Canal Zone - Ne(x)tworks perf. Kenji Bunch's opera (New Yorker by Alex Ross) - May 15, 2006
MATA:
2008 MATA Festival - Boston Modern Orchestra Project (NY Times by Allan Kozinn) - April 3, 2008
MATA Interval 2.2 (NY Times by Allan Kozinn) - Nov. 20, 2008
2009 MATA Festival - The Knights (NY Times by Allan Kozinn) - April 1, 2009
2009 MATA Festival (NewMusicBox by Frank Oteri) - April 7, 2009
2010 MATA Festival - Matt Wright and Calder Quartet (NY Times by Steve Smith) - April 21, 2010
With Yoshiko Chuma:
DANCE REVIEW | '60S SNAPSHOTS' (NY TImes by J. Dunning) - Aug. 25, 2007 (CJM pictured)
Framing Sevens (Village Voice by Elizebeth Zimmer) - Aug. 8, 2006
"Sundown" on the Gowanus Canal (NY Theater Wire by Jack Anderson) - July 31, 2006
Seven Hours of Yoshiko Chuma’s ‘Sundown’ (NY Times by John Rockwell) - July 31, 2006
DANCE REVIEW | 'ART ON THE BEACH REVISITED' (NY Times by Gia Kourlas) - June 5, 2005
Curator:
Conversations, Free-Flowing Yet Precise [A Power Stronger Than Itself AACM Festival, The Kitchen] (NY Times by Nate Chinen) Oct. 10, 2008
A Tribute to Arthur Russell: Celebrating Undefinable Songwriting [Arthur Russell Festival, The Kitchen] (NY Times by Ben Ratliff) May 19, 2008
Swimming Upstream • Zach Baron on a film about Arthur Russell (Artforum by Zach Baron) May 19, 2008
Five Concerts All At Once, And It's Quiet [((Tune In)) The Kitchen, New Sound, New York Festival, 2004] (NY Times by Jon Pareles) April 24, 2004
Various:
Celebrating New Music, Just Off the Beaten Path [Darmstadt's Berio Sequenza event]
(NY Times by Steve Smith) Dec. 3, 2010 (CJM pictured & mentioned)
That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices [Darmstadt's In C] (NY Times by Allan Kozinn) Dec. 1, 2007 (CJM pictured)