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John Schneider: American Maverick Guitar American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesGrammy Award-winning guitarist John Schneider explores another side of the Greenwich Village music scene, looking at works by the intrepid Harry Partch and Lou Harrison and others and their engagement in world music and the "American Primitive”. Schneider's work is "of a caliber that kept this listener in a state of continuous astonishment" Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times.
Eliza Garth: Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Mark’s in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPianist Eliza Garth performs Sonatas and Interludes, John Cage’s 1947 masterpiece for prepared piano, a composition regarded as a formative piano work of the 20th Century. St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery is known and loved as a gathering place for innovative musicians, dancers, and poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Cage.
William Bland: Village Maverick American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesKevin Gorman, praised for his “passion, technical facility and explosive tonality,” (Fanfare Magazine) is a champion of the piano music of maverick composer, poet, painter William Bland. He has performed and recorded Bland's epic cycle of piano sonatas for Bridge Records to great acclaim.
The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Featuring soloists Oren Fader and Giacomo Fiore American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesGuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New York’s best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Julián Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Gary Philo, among others.
Genius & Invention: Schoenberg, Ives, Cage & Harrison – An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesCelebrating ground-breaking composers Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives at 150 with the Hayley/Laufer duo’s stunning interpretation of the lushly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Ives’ violin and piano sonata. Plus Varied Trio and early keyboard music by unlikely Schoenberg students Lou Harrison and John Cage.
Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesRenowned duo pianists Susan Grace and Steven Beck perform works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl who, with linguist Ray Jackendoff, developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music, an endeavor inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.
The Art & Science of Hang-out-ology:
David Amram in Conversation with Cliff Pearson
Lobby Bar at the Washington Square Hotel
103 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United States
David Amram, “Renaissance Man of American Music” and real-life Zelig, is now in his sixth year as Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip. He is the spirit of the festival, and a link to more than a half-century of fabled Village history. Indeed, David has lived much of it—hanging out with the Abstract Expressionists who changed the course of art, jamming with Parker, Monk and Mingus who changed the course of jazz, and composing for the great Joe Papp, who changed the course of theater.
Go Tell It On the Mountain: James Baldwin in Words and Music
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesAlmost 40 years after his death, the words of James Baldwin are ever more resonant, speaking powerfully to us about culture, faith, race, justice, and identity. This celebration of Baldwin’s centennial honors his remarkable legacy with readings directed by actor and playwright Daniel Carlton, plus performances of the jazz, blues and gospel Baldwin listened to as he wrote, as well as new music by Julian Hornik and Nehemiah Luckett inspired by the novels Giovanni’s Room and Another Country.
Identity, Gender & Cockette Sexual Anarchy
An Evening of Glamour, Wild Tales, Photos & Films with Cockette Fayette Hauser
The Center
208 West 13th Street (Room 301), NY, United States
Fayette Hauser is a founding member of The Cockettes, performing in San Francisco from 1969 to 1972. In a rare Village performance, Fayette will reflect on the Cockette years with a talk and slideshow that will evoke nostalgia in those who were there and envy in those who missed out. She will also introduce two rarely seen films starring The Cockettes.
From the Courtyard
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States“Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us, but art preserves the values and experiences” – Undine Smith Moore
From the Courtyard first recreates the sounds of an East Village tenement courtyard, shared by multicultural immigrant families, then moves into the concert hall to hear how the rich legacy of folk music inspired later generations of composers. The concert features a premiere by Clarice Assad.
Presented in cooperation with the Tenement Museum.
Village Voices: With James Martin, baritone & Lynn Raley, piano
World Premières of New Work by David Amram, Carman Moore & Maria Thompson Corley
St John’s in the Village
218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States
The world première of Five American Voices, a song cycle by David Amram, “the renaissance man of American music” and Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip. The work “reflects the diverse voices of our cultural mosaic” and features settings of writings by Carolyn Cassady, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Whitehead, Ted Joans, and Tom Piazza. The piece was commissioned by the Roger Shapiro Fund for The Village Trip and will be performed by baritone James C Martin, and pianist Lynn Raley.
Habitat East Village with Damien Sneed and Friends
St Mark’s in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJimmy Carter's first Habitat for Humanity project was in the East Village, off Tompkins Square Park. Carter had a love for music and musicians of every ilk and, as President, he brought many of them to the White House, from Leonard Bernstein and Dizzy Gillespie to the great pedagogical pioneer Shinichi Suzuki. He saw music as a healer and a bridge between diverse groups, and recognized excellence in all genres. Following the gamelan concert, join us inside the church as we revisit some of that music, with Damien Sneed, his jazz ensemble and gospel Chorale Le Chateau, violinist David Fulmer, soprano Sharon Harms and pianist Joan Forsyth performing favorites close to the President's heart.
Howl: A Performance with Percussion and Cornet
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery at Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesCome experience this new recitation and musical interpretation of Allen Ginsberg’s ground-breaking poetic masterpiece Howl, performed by Justin Jay Hines (percussion) with master jazz improviser Kirk Knuffke (cornet).
Norman Raeben and Bob Dylan: A Lecture by Fabio Fantuzzi
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation 526 Laguardia Place, New York, NY, United StatesBob Dylan once said that Norman Raeben “put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt… didn’t teach you so much how to draw … he looked into you and told you what you were.” From late March to August 1974, Dylan made the daily journey uptown to Raeben’s eleventh-floor studio above Carnegie Hall, developing a visual approach to writing that shaped seminal albums like Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Street Legal. Reflecting on that creative period in a 1991 interview, Dylan added: “That was my painting period… that’s like taking a brush and painting those songs onto a canvas.”
Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Village Poets
Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesDjuna Barnes, artist, illustrator, journalist, and author, best known for Nightwood (1936), a classic of lesbian fiction, lived for 40 years on Patchin Place where her neighbors included ee cummings. The story goes that the poet would poke his head into the stairwell of the reclusive Djuna’s building and shout: “Are you alive, Djuna?” Barnes knew James Joyce when she was in Paris between the wars and he gifted her an annotated manuscript of Ulysses.
Poetica Musica: Inspired by the Village
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesNew York-based chamber group Poetica Musica presents a concert celebrating composers inspired by Greenwich Village and the East Village – among them Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Bela Bartok, and William Anderson. Featuring guitarists Oren Fader and William Anderson; flutist Barry Crawford; pianist Molly Morkoski; and soprano Eleanor Valkenburg, artistic director of Poetica Musica.
The Bergamot Quartet: Three World Premières
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThe ever-innovative Bergamot Quartet performs world premières – by Samuel Adler, Louis Karchin, and Eli Greenhoe. The virtuosic yangqin player Cheng Jin Koh joins the quartet for a performance of her work Mountain of Echoing Halls.
ETHEL with Kyle Miller, electric guitar
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesAcclaimed guitarist-composer Kyle Miller joins the ever exciting and eclectic string quartet ETHEL for a dynamic program rooted in their shared New York City songbooks.