Composers Concordance
– Radical Other –
Live Music and Choreography
Combine on a Program Featuring
Renowned Bass Trombonist
David Taylor, CompCord String Quintet,
and The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
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Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 4pm
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 E 10th St, NYC
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For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Sunday, December 11th at 4pm at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery , Composers Concordance presents virtuosic musicianship, cutting-edge choreography, and brazen new music compositions on a program entitled Radical Other.
Renowned bass trombonist David Taylor performs his solo composition Houdini's Lament / No Strings Attached, with words by Folger McKinsey. CompCord String Quintet performs featured works including Disparate Stairway Radical Other by Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000); Radical Static by Gene Pritsker; and Reaching the End of the Dance by Faye-Ellen Silverman; as well as scores by William Anderson, Dan Cooper, and Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959).
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, led by Katherine Duke, performs an array of choreographic works including Junoesque, which echoes sacred dimensions of imposing and curvaceous stature. Presence of Light exposes a sliver of a creature’s vulnerability, thrashing through one's own visceral world within the growing technological world. Show Me wrestles with the feelings that love poses, strikingly revealing no matter how much we continually evolve. Law of Contiguity references how sequential occurrences are housed in the mind.
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Listing Information
Composers Concordance
Radical Other
David Taylor - bass trombone
CompCord String Quintet
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
Sunday, December 11th
4pm EST
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 E 10th St
New York, NY 10003
$20 in advance; $30 at the door
Composers:
William Anderson, Dan Cooper, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Bohuslav Martinů, Gene Pritsker,
Faye-Ellen Silverman, David Taylor
Performers:
David Taylor - bass trombone
CompCord Ensemble
Mark Zaki - violin
Kate Goddard - violin
Arthur Dibble - viola
Kate Dillingham - cello
Troy Rinker, Jr. - bass
Erick Hawkins Dance
Kristina Berger, Jacquelyne Boe,
Antonio Fini, Erin Jennings,
Leighann Kowalsky, Jeff Lyon,
with guest artist: Lloyd Knight
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Receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees from Juilliard, David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra, and by appearing with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with groups ranging from Duke Ellington to The Rolling Stones. He has appeared and recorded with major jazz and popular artists including Barbara Streisand, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin. Mr. Taylor has won the NARAS Most Valuable Player Award for five consecutive years, and has also been awarded the NARAS Most Valuable Player Virtuoso Award, an honor accorded no other bass trombonist. He has been a member of the bands of Gil Evans, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, George Russell, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Michelle Camillo, Bob Mintzer, Dave Matthews, the Words Within Music Trio, and B3+. In 1998 Taylor performed on four GRAMMY nominated CDs: The J.J. Johnson Big Band, Dave Grusin's West Side Story, the Joe Henderson Big Band, and the Randy Brecker Band. The latter two CDs were chosen for GRAMMYs. David Taylor is also on the faculties of the MSM and Mannes. He plays Edwards bass trombones exclusively.
Katherine Duke began her study with Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski in 1983. She made her professional debut in 1986 with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company at Lincoln Center. Ms. Duke became a principal dancer under Hawkins’ direction performing with the Company until 1991. As noted by Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times, "Ms. Duke’s mercurial grace, purity of presence, and focused phrasing" brought her critical acclaim. Jamake Highwater has written, “There is little doubt that Katherine Duke represents the idealization of Hawkins’s four decades of creating dance.” Duke returned to the Hawkins Company in 1995 as a guest artist. She taught technique and composition at the school, and in 1997 assisted Dlugoszewski in setting Hawkins’ Journey of a Poet for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. Duke became the artistic director of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in 2001. Her passion is to share, in its purest form, the beauty of the technique, the unique approach to choreography, and the principles of this legacy through intensives, workshops, and commissions. She continues to bring the Erick Hawkins Dance Company into the present with archival research enriching the company’s repertory through unexplored works by Hawkins and Dlugoszewski, commissioned choreographers, and her own work.
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, founded in 1951, has been touring the world since the 1960s. With unwavering integrity and uncompromising working methods, Hawkins choreography is based on a collaboration of music, art, and dance. His dances are performed to live music, often composed especially for each dance, along with commissioned sets by artists and sculptors. Known for a fluid, effortless style of movement, each dance is energetic yet poetic, serene yet harmonious. The company continues today to develop dances based on Hawkins' pioneering movement theory.
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Staying in rotation for 39 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene. Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead. Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Peter Jarvis. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
"Composers Concordance..a veritable New York new music institution of concerts, album production and multiple ensembles under a sweeping, tenacious brand, thriving on the emulsion of contemporary classical, free improv, jazz and rock, overt humor and fearless political statements, all very much in evidence..The ensemble..was masterful throughout.”- John Pietaro, The New York City Jazz Record
"An unwavering force in giving composers exposure through concert bookings and its own record label, the intrepid new-music organization Composers Concordance” - The Brooklyn Rail
"The Composers Concordance folks are unpredictable and at times refreshingly irreverent in a reverent sort of way....ingenious fun" - Classical-Modern Music Review
“Enterprising new music organization” - The New York Times
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