BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Village Trip - ECPv6.14.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Village Trip REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250707T084911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T133823Z UID:10000774-1760187600-1760205600@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland-exhibition-until-october-14/2025-10-11/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250707T084911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T133823Z UID:10000782-1759860000-1759867200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland-exhibition-until-october-14/2025-10-07/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250707T084911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T133823Z UID:10000773-1759582800-1759600800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland-exhibition-until-october-14/2025-10-04/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T163000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250717T151935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T120410Z UID:10000796-1759071600-1759077000@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:ETHEL with Kyle Miller\, electric guitar DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed 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. \nThis concert features the world premières of two new works by Miller—Plea and A Minimum of Mountain—written especially for the quartet. Also on the program are pieces by Philip Glass\, Marcelo Zarvos\, Phil Kline\, Fred Hersch\, and David Lang\, alongside fan favorites from Tin Pan Alley. This unique collaboration blends classical\, contemporary\, and popular idioms in a performance that highlights New York City’s musical depth and diversity. A singular evening of bold new work and timeless favorites. \n\nETHEL\nKyle Miller\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/ethel-with-kyle-miller-electric-guitar/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 New Music,ASCAP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Kyle-Miller-and-ETHEL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250717T151537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T120436Z UID:10000795-1759001400-1759006800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Bergamot Quartet: Three World Premières DESCRIPTION:The 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. \n\nThe Bergamot Quartet\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-bergamot-quartet-three-world-premieres/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 New Music,ASCAP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Bergamot-Quartet.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250714T123801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T134056Z UID:10000772-1758978000-1758996000@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland-exhibition/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250717T151014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T100843Z UID:10000794-1758913200-1758920400@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Poetica Musica: Inspired by the Village DESCRIPTION:[image: clockwise from top left: Astor Piazzolla (Eduardo Comesana)\, Charles Ives (Smithsonian Institution)\, George Gershwin\, Bela Bartok] \nPoetica Musica – Oren Fader\, guitar\, Barry Crawford\, Flute\, Eleanor Valkenburg\, soprano\nNew 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. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/poetica-musica/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 New Music,ASCAP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Poetic-Musica-composers-montage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250714T123637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T134354Z UID:10000781-1758650400-1758657600@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland-exhibition-2/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250717T090343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T104150Z UID:10000788-1758376800-1758384000@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Classical Cool! Kids’ Concert hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons DESCRIPTION:[image: Leonard Bernstein backstage with visitors during a young people’s concert intermission. Nina Bernstein Simmons\, photo by Steve Sherman] \nTaking a leaf from the Maestro’s inspirational Young People’s Concerts\, this family concert celebrates the legacy of conductor\, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein. It also honors the 150th anniversary of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). \nClassical Cool! includes works by Bernstein and Saint-Saëns’ whimsical family favorite Carnival of the Animals\, performed by The Village Trip Festival Orchestra conducted by Victoria Bond and with narration by Nina Bernstein Simmons. \nIt features pianists Kevin Chance\, Joan Forsyth\, Alexander Wu\, and Tomoko Uchino and introduces soprano Melanie Chin and pianist Opal Garg. \n\n\n\n \n \n Opal Garg – Pianist\n \n\n\n \n \n Melanie Chin – Soprano\n \n \n  \nMeet and chat with the musicians and their instruments in the church courtyard afterward! \nProceeds from Classical Cool! will benefit Artful Learning\, the extraordinary teaching model founded by Nina’s brother\, the late Alexander Bernstein. Artful Learning puts Bernstein’s own philosophies of education into practice\, galvanizing students and teachers into becoming co-creators. The model is thriving in schools nationwide. \n\n$20 Student/Senior ticket\n$25 Single ticket\n$35 Family ticket for up to four: One or two adults + two or three kids\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/classical-cool-kids-concert/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Classcial-Cool-Leonard-and-Nina-Bernstein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250714T123433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T134519Z UID:10000771-1758373200-1758391200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND! DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Credit: Marrapodi\, Ornstein\, Ball\, Schreier] \nThe fourth Village Trip Art Exhibition\, curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe. Freedomland! celebrates the West Village\, the East Village\, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment\, where we create\, where we have freedom to be who we are! \nThe show features painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and sculpture. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. Revelation Gallery at St John’s in the Village\, 224 Waverly Place\nSaturdays 1pm – 6pm\n+ Tuesday\, September 23 and Tuesday\, October 7\, 6pm – 8 pm\nThe exhibition runs until October 14 URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-freedomland/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 Art & Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Freedomland-Exhibition-1000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20250717T091257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250815T132415Z UID:10000790-1758308400-1758313800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Village Voices: With James Martin\, baritone & Lynn Raley\, piano World Premières of New Work by David Amram\, Carman Moore & Maria Thompson Corley DESCRIPTION:[image: Lynn Raley\, pianist and James Martin\, baritone] \nThe 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.\nVillage Voices celebrates the diverse culture of human rights embodied in Greenwich Village\, a neighborhood of change\, rebirth\, and renewal. We will honor the centrality of David Amram to the Village community as he approaches his 95th birthday and\, as we acknowledge the Amram legacy\, we also celebrate the inclusion of a relatively new voice with a première by the gifted Jamaican-born composer and pianist Maria Thompson Corley. And we première Carman Moore’s A Village Triptych for voice and piano. You’ll also hear songs that were performed around the Village by the great troubadours of the 1950s and ‘60s. Songs of love\, songs of peace\, songs of empowerment\, and songs of rage and redemption. \nFeaturing guitarist William Anderson and cellist Michael Cameron. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/village-voices-james-martin-lynn-raley/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2025 New Music,ASCAP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Lynnn-Raley-and-James-Martin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20240722T075146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240808T104150Z UID:10000598-1727550000-1727560800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:World Central Kitchen Fundraiser DESCRIPTION:World Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines\, providing meals in response to humanitarian\, climate\, and community crises. We\, as artists\, support this non-profit organization with our music and poetry\, helping to raise awareness and money for their worthy cause by organizing this event and inviting everyone to join us in supporting World Central Kitchen.\nThe musical line-up will include Beth Levin\, Gerald Robbins\, Joan Forsyth\, Donna Weng Friedman\, and Mark Kostabi – piano; Yeou Cheng Ma\, Lara St John\, and Dave Soldier – violin; Bill Schimmel – accordion; and Gene Pritsker\, and William Anderson – guitar. \nAmong the poets featured will be Richard Levine\, Puma Pearl\, Erik T Johnson\, Yeou Cheng Ma\, Robert C Ford\, and John Pietaro. \nThe program will include music by Mozart and Schumann\, as well as William Anderson\, Dan Cooper\, Mark Kostabi\, Niloufar Nourbakhsh\, Gene Pritsker\, Bill Schimmel\, and Dave Soldier. \n[image credit: ‘Impressions and Strokes’ by Rainer Gross] \nTickets: \n\n$25\n$30 (door)\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BOOK TICKETS URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/world-central-kitchen-fundraiser/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Impressions-and-Strokes-by-Rainer-Gross.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20240722T085821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T091612Z UID:10000599-1727465400-1727470800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:From the Courtyard DESCRIPTION:“Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us\, but art preserves the values and experiences” – Undine Smith Moore\nFrom 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.\nThe concert features the innovative ensemble Raices Negras\, with flautist Ceylon Mitchell\, cellist Erin Murphy Snedecor\, and pianist Elizabeth G. Hill\, joined by soprano Sharon Harms and pianists Joan Forsyth and Tony Lu. Music by Lazar Weiner and his son Yehudi  Wyner\, Amy Beach\, Manuel Ponce\, Undine Smith Moore\, George Walker and Tanya Leon. Courtyard music provided by community musicians. \nA powerful communicator renowned for her musical scope and versatility\, Brazilian-American Clarice Assad is a significant voice in the classical\, world music\, pop\, and jazz genres. The Grammy–nominated composer\, pianist\, vocalist\, and educator is acclaimed for her evocative colors\, rich textures\, and diverse stylistic range. “She energetically bends music to her will and reshapes it with fascinating results” – Jazz Improv Magazine \nLazar Weiner immigrated to New York from Cherkasy\, Ukraine in 1914. An accomplished pianist\, he soon found work in the silent movie industry and the Yiddish musical milieu that had sprung up around Second Avenue in the East Village. He was a prolific composer of Yiddish art songs\, and his son\, Pulitzer Prize-winner Yehudi Wyner\, grew up in the City amidst this vibrant Yiddish cultural and intellectual tradition. We pair Lazar Weiner’s moving “Somewhere Far Away” and lively “Yoshi the Klezmer” with Yehudi Wyner’s early Psalm and Family Vaudeville songs. \nComposer Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) scandalized ardent defenders of European classical music when he gave a concert combining Mexican popular and traditional songs with European artistic genres. He became an ardent advocate for South and Latin American music\, exploring and cataloguing native music and developing its melodic and rhythmic features in his own original works. \nAmy Beach (1867-1944) moved from Boston to New York City in 1915\, attracted by its vibrant musical life. Her own compositional credo embraced folk music\, in particular the folk songs of her own ancestors\, the Irish\, Scottish and English peoples who had immigrated to America. She wanted to depict the “laments\, romances and dreams” of the Irish peoples in her Suite for Two Pianos Founded Upon Old Irish Melodies. An ardent contributor to New York’s intellectual and artistic scene\, she wrote a response in the Times to Dvorak’s call for American composers to embrace the music of indigenous and African immigrants with a reminder that the cultural legacy of the British Isles was also a strong element of American cultural heritage. The dialogue reflects the search for a truly “American” musical identity that was a strong part of early twentieth-century musical thought in the Americas\, a desire to shake off the chains of the European classical tradition and find new paths that reaffirmed new national identities. \nCuban-born Tania León’s compositional style has been influenced by Undine Smith Moore (1904-89)\, one of the most prominent African-American women composers of the 20th Century. Her Afro-American Suite (1969) sets traditional spirituals in a contemporary modern harmonic idiom. Dr Moore once said: “Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us\, but art preserves the values and experiences.” \nMusic from the Courtyard program: \n\nLazar Weiner – “Somewhere Far Away\,” “Yoshi the Klezmer”\nYehudi Wyner – Psalm 112\, Family Vaudeville Songs\nAmy Cheney Beach – “Prelude” and “Finale” from Suite for Two Pianos\nUndine Smith Moore – Afro-American Suite\nManuel M. Ponce – Canciones Mexicanas\nClarice Assad – Flight of the Fairies\nTania Leon – Arenas d’un Tiempo\n\nPerformers\n Raices Negras Ensemble\nCeylon Mitchell\, flute\nErin Murphy Snedecor\, cello\nElizabeth G. Hill\, piano\nSharon Harms\, soprano\nJoan Forsyth\, piano \n\n7 pm Courtyard Prelude\n7:30 pm Concert \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/from-the-courtyard/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 New Music,ASCAP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Clarice-Assad-and-Ceylon-Mitchell-Courtyard-text-final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T164500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20240812T125309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T091425Z UID:10000631-1727017200-1727023500@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Genius & Invention: Schoenberg\, Ives\, Cage & Harrison – An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend DESCRIPTION:[image: Adam Tendler (left) Hayley/Laufer Duo (right)] \nCelebrating 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.\nGenius and Invention traces the pivotal explorations of some of the twentieth century’s most daringly original composers. American musical pioneer Charles Ives and Arnold Schoenberg\, founder of the second Viennese school\, were surely two of the century’s most innovative musicians\, forging paths that defied the musical strictures of the time. Ives wrote Violin Sonata No 4 while  living in Greenwich Village from 1908-11. He is said to have sent scores to Schoenberg\, seeking to study with him. Schoenberg responded that the Ives was already an accomplished artist\, a true “genius.“ \nCage and Harrison were equally notorious; both were students of Schoenberg but took their art in entirely different directions from the master. He described them not as composers\, but “inventors – of genius.” \nWith the extravagantly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens we find Schoenberg at the brink of something new\, breaking away from established practice and opening up a new universe of musical possibilities. The result is a lavishly beautiful and sensually evocative setting of Stefan George’s portrayal of struggling young lovers\, performed incomparably by champions of the adventurous voice and piano repertoire Dorothea Hayley and Manuel Laufer. \nAdam Tendler\, a definitive interpreter of Cage\, presents early piano works demonstrating the composer’s ear for color and timbre. Harrison in his youth was a harpsichordist\, and his suites for that instrument combine Baroque tradition with minimalist innovation. The evocative Varied Trio for violin\, percussion and piano reflects his later preoccupation with Asian music. Ives\, like Cage and Harrison\, includes the sounds of the surrounding world\, posing questions as to the very definition of music. \nOf Ives\, Schoenberg famously wrote: “There is a great man living in this country – a composer. He has solved the problem of how to preserve one’s self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.” \nSchoenberg considered Ives a true musical genius\, but we would argue that all four men fit the bill. While their musical paths were very different\, what they had in common was the ability to think outside the box\, follow their own hearts and find their own truths\, undeterred by opposition or incomprehension. \n\nHayley Laufer Duo: Dorothea Hayley\, soprano; Manuel Laufer\, piano\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\nAdam Tendler\,  piano\nDavid Fulmer\, violin\nLauren Cauley\, violin\nBill Solomon\, percussion\n\nThe concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX \n \n \n\nArnold Schonberg and Charles Ives URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/genius-invention/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 New Music,ASCAP,The American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Adam-Tendler-and-Hayley-Laufer-Duo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20240715T131538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T091516Z UID:10000589-1726941600-1726956000@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Featuring soloists Oren Fader and Giacomo Fiore American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend DESCRIPTION:GuitarFest 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.\nThe GuitarFest 24 program:\n\nLou Harrison’s Canticle III\nexcerpts from Jonathan Dawe’s microtonal opera: Amor nello Specchio (Love in the Mirror) for microtonal guitars\, with Sharon Harms\, soprano\nmusic touching on Connie Converse\, one of the earliest musicians to work in the singer-songwriter genre who mysteriously disappeared in 1974\, and John Fahey\, whose style has been described as the foundation of American Primitive guitar\nNo Benign Umbrella\, Nora Stanley\, commissioned by The Village Trip for Ictus Novus\nKyle Miller’s “Wavering Radiant”\na memorial tribute to Larry Polanski\, guitarist and composer\nFour’s Company\, composed by Paul Lansky for David Starobin’s guitar class at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia\n\nPerformers: Ictus Novus; The Curtis Guitar Quartet – Xingxing Yao\, Ruqi Jiang\, Radomir Romashkov-Danilov\, and Muxin Li—coached by Curtis Professors David Starobin and Jason Vieaux\nVocalists:  Zige Wang and Sharon Harms\nCellist: Richard Jimenez\nFlutist: Roberta Michel (ocarina)\nGuitar soloists: Giacomo Fiore\, Oren Fader\, Dan Lippel\, Kyle Miller\, Jackie Ward\, Daniel Conant\nPercussionists: Dylan Ofrias\, Jordana Sidlow\, and Najee Marcelin \nComposers: Estrella Cabildo\, Paul Lansky\, Kyle Miller\, Zige Wang\, Shoko Suzuki\, Larry Polansky\, Nora Stanley\, Noam Beili\, Lou Harrison\, Daniel Zapata\, Jonathan Dawe\, Milton Babbitt\, Jorge Caballero\, John Fahey\, Andrew McKenna-Lee\, Todd Tarantino\, David Amram\, Agustín Castilla-Ávila \nTVT Guitar Orchestra Members\nDan Lippel\nNoam Beili\nRianne Mision\nAdam Negrin\nStephen Griesgraber\nDaniel Conant\nPascual Araujo\nAustin Tobia\nOren Fader\nJohn Chang\nDaniel Zapata\nKyle Miller\nJackie Ward\nKim Kramer\nSean Ferguson\nJuan Calderon\nMatt Zlotkin\nChris Rispoli\nJorge Caballero\nJay Sorce\nJorge Caballero\nSebastian Molina\nDavid Nadal \nA marathon 6pm to 8pm and 8pm to 10pm.\nCome to either or both with one ticket. \nThe concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/guitarfest-24/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 New Music,ASCAP,The American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Anderson-The-Village-Guitar-Orchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T164500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20240718T154525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T091529Z UID:10000596-1726934400-1726937100@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:William Bland: Village Maverick American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend DESCRIPTION:Kevin 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.\nGreenwich Village maverick composer\, painter\, and poet William Bland is an American original whose huge three-tiered production is emerging to wider public recognition. Pianist Kevin Gorman has devoted himself to performing Bland’s cycle of 24 large-scale sonatas in each of the major and minor keys\, perhaps taking their cue from Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. Composed over 16 years\, the cycle encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of cultural influences\, merging the simple and the complex\, the popular and the classical\, the romantic and the modernist. \nGorman performs Sonata No. 6\, subtitled Bestiary – con amore\, opening with a brutal Bear Dance\, followed by the gliding Song of the Great Hawk. Then a slinky Panther leads to an all-out Dragon\, with its finale\, a soothing Regard on Edward Hicks’ painting The Peaceable Kingdom. To close the recital\, Gorman tackles Bland’s wild Fantasy on Gottschalk’s Souvenir de Puerto Rico\, Marche des Gibaros. \nThe performance is complemented by an exhibit of paintings by William Bland\, aka C. Damon Carter\, Bland’s birth name. \nThe concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend. \nWilliam Bland\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/william-bland/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2024 New Music,ASCAP,The American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Kevin-Gorman-pianist.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230917T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230917T163000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20230710T085344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T085925Z UID:10000137-1694962800-1694968200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Seeking Refuge: Sounding loss and displacement DESCRIPTION:[Image: Mascha Kaléko] \nThe Village has long been a Mecca for immigrants seeking refuge from the conflicts of war and natural disaster. \nPoet Mascha Kaléko is your guide to a world of song and chamber music that explores these very timely themes. Kaleko was twice a refugee\, as her family fled first from war-torn Poland\, then from Nazi Berlin. Her poetry explores the feelings of loss\, displacement\, and isolation she experienced as a newcomer to Greenwich Village. She relocated to Israel\, only to return to New York. In 2020 guitarist William Anderson began a commissioning and development project based on Kaléko’s journey and her poetry. His plan is to work with young composers and established masters in each of Kaléko’s stopping places. The result is a uniquely varied collection of songs\, spanning a broad spectrum of references\, styles and responses. \nThis program will present songs from the most recent trip to Poland with music from New York composers. Rounding out the program are pieces from Adolphus Hailstork’s “Wounded Children” Suite\, written in response to recent conflicts in the Middle East and their horrific effects on young lives\, and chamber music by Ukrainian refugee Leo Ornstein. New song settings and ensemble music by Jonathan Dawe\, William Anderson\, Robert Pollock\, Victoria Bond\, Kitty Brazelton\, including work by young artists Gavin Cappon and Maxim Dybal – Denysenko from our mentorship program. \nIn Memory of Marty Boykan\nPerformers \n\nSharon Harms\, soprano\nWilliam Anderson\, guitarist\nJoan Forsyth\, pianists\nAmy Hersh\, flute\n\nComposers \n\nAdolphus Hailstork\nBohuslav Martinu\nGavin Cappon\nMaxim Dybal-Denysenko\nJonathan Dawe\nVictoria Bond\nRobert Pollock\nKitty Brazelton\nWilliam Anderson\nMartin Boykan\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/seeking-refuge/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 Civil Rights,2023 Music,2023 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Mascha-Kaleko-poet.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T214500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20230807T133546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T085157Z UID:10000077-1694894400-1694900700@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Village Trip GuitarFest III – Finding Beauty in Small Things – Mel Powell to Chester Biscardi DESCRIPTION:Among the finest guitarists of all time” (American Record Guide)\, David Leisner will perform works written for him by Laura Kaminsky\, Bun-Ching Lam\, and Chester Biscardi’s “Finding Beauty in Small Things”. \nGuitarist Xingxing Yao\, from Hangzhou performs Mel Powell. Chilean guitarist Sebastian Molina\, Bowers Fader Duo\, and more\, do works by David Loeb\, Martin Rokeach\, Richard Cameron-Wolfe. Neil Beckmann will perform “Bailarin”\, by Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon. \nMel Powell’s path forward through the postwar decades led him to his gutsy 1955 soundscape for Gumbasia\, the ground-breaking claymation movie by Art Clokey. At the end of Mel Powell’s career\, the jazz all but evaporates out of his music and Powell is in the universe of Chester Biscardi\, Bun-Ching Lam and Laura Kaminsky. \nMel Powell’s guitar solo\, “Setting”\, was written for David Starobin in 1986. ”Setting” will be performed on GuitarFest 3 by Xingxing Yao\, a 17-year-old from Hangzhou\, who is a student of David Starobin and Jason Vieaux at the Curtis Institute. \nMartin Rokeach is a Bay-Area composer who loves New York. “Odd Couple of Prince Street” (premiere) refers to the wedding of the banjo and the piano. \nThe Bowers Fader Duo will perform Richard Cameron-Wolfe’s “Gazelle in my garden”\, from his 2016 “Breathless–Cantata on Ancient Mystical Texts”. The poem is by Quasmuna bint Isma’il\, whose Jewish father was court poet to the 11th-century Moslem King of Granada. \nDavid Loeb is one of our most remarkable musical mavericks. He countered the International Stye with his own international style\, his own unique World Music\, in a career spent between New York and Japan\, where he absorbed Japanese musical idioms. Mariano Aguirre\, Carlo Valte\, Scott Jackson Wiley will perform Loeb’s “Between Sea and Sky”. \nDavid Amram\, The Village Trip’s resident composer\, occupies an absolutely unique place in American music\, straddling everything — jazz and classical\, US and Europe. He knew all the jazz legends\, wrote unforgettable films scores for Elia Kazan and John Frankenheimer. The Village Trip GuitarFest concludes with Amram’s songs for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park\, arranged for guitar orchestra by Noam Beili. \nComposers \n\nMel Powell\nLaura Kaminsky\nDavid Loeb\nRichard Cameron-Wolfe\nBun-Ching Lam\nDavid Amram\nDavid Leisner\nChester Biscardi\nMartin Rokeach\n\nPerformers \n\nMariano Aguirre\nCarlop Valte\nScott Jackson Wiley\nXingxing Yao\nJack Ward\nDavid Leisner\nOren Fader\nBowers-Fader Duo\nSebastian Molina\nDaniel Conant and Ema Tufekčić – guitar & viola duo\nAdriana Valdez\n\nGuitar Ochestra Members \nG1\nDan Lippel\nNoam Beili\nDavid Chidsey\nKevin Robert\nAdam Negrin \nG2\nDaniel Conant\nNeil Beckmann\nAlejandro Castellano\nPascual Araujo\nDiego Andrade \nG3\nEbin Samuel\nR Mision\nChris Rispoli\nOren Fader\nJohn Chang \nG4\nJack Ward\nNeil Beckmann\nDaniel Zapata\nPeter Argondizza\nKyle Miller \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/guitarfest-3/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GF3-David-Leisner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T194500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20230710T085109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T085031Z UID:10000135-1694887200-1694893500@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Village Trip GuitarFest II – Mel Powell Centenary – My Guy’s Come Back DESCRIPTION:[Image: Mel Powell and Benny Goodman] \nIn the 1940s during the height of the Swing era\, Mel Powell wrote songs for the Benny Goodman Orchestra — songs like\, “My Guy’s Come Back” (1945). Powell’s path forward through the wide open musical possibilities of the postwar decades led him to win a Pulitzer Prize for his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra. \nThe Village Trip GuitarFest explores these postwar spaces and what’s become of them. British composer John Duarte was put on the map by Andres Segovia. Duarte’s “Joan Baez Suite” makes a surprising link between the world of legendary guitarist Andres Segovia and the Greenwich Village of Joan Baez. Damon Ferrante’s “Beyond the Line of Blue “ are settings of Edgar Allen Poe for two guitars and mezzo Jessica Bowers. Volver a los 19\, by Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar was commissioned by Fundación Guitarra Viva Ernesto Quezada for Chilean guitarist Sebastian Molina. Martin Rokeach’s award-winning Fantasy on 12-Strings opens the program. \nComposers \n\nJoan Baez\nMel Powell\nMartin Rokeach\nDamon Ferrante\nJohn Duarte\nFelipe Pinto d’Aguiar\n\nPerformers \n\nPeter Argondizza\nRianne Mision\nXingxing Yao\nJack Ward\nOren Fader\nBowers-Fader Duo\nSebastian Molina\nDaniel Conant and Ema Tufekčić – guitar & viola duo\nAdriana Valdez\nJessica Bowers\n\nGuitar Ochestra Members \nG1\nDan Lippel\nNoam Beili\nDavid Chidsey\nKevin Robert\nAdam Negrin \nG2\nDaniel Conant\nNeil Beckmann\nAlejandro Castellano\nPascual Araujo\nDiego Andrade \nG3\nEbin Samuel\nR Mision\nChris Rispoli\nOren Fader\nJohn Chang \nG4\nJack Ward\nNeil Beckmann\nDaniel Zapata\nPeter Argondizza\nKyle Miller \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/tvt-guitarfest-2/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GF2-Mel-Powell-and-Benny-Goodman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T204500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20230710T082841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T141337Z UID:10000128-1694547000-1694551500@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Piano & Dance: Kees & Winter Wieringa: Dutch Minimalist Simeon ten Holt and Greenwich Village DESCRIPTION:[Image: Kees Wieringa and Simeon ten Holt] \nPianist Kees Wieringa performs music from the Netherlands and Greenwich Village\, including Simeon ten Holt\, Jacob TV\, Alvin Curran and Phillip Glass. Simeon ten Holt’s “Solo Devil’s Dance 4” was specially written for Winter Wieringa and will have its world premiere\, in collaboration with dancers from New York. \nKees Wieringa is a Dutch pianist\, composer\, writer and cultural entrepreneur. \nHe came to prominence for his performances of the Dutch composers Jakob van Domselaer\, Daniel Ruyneman and Simeon ten Holt. Kees Wieringa graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1986. He has built an international career over the years with his piano recitals and compositions. \nIn 2010\, Kees Wieringa premiered the opera Drebbel. The main character of the piece is the Alkmaar-educated inventor Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633) (performed by rock singer Thé Lau)\, who was interested in themes of alchemy and spiritualism. “Wieringa was inspired by the early Baroque music with its polyphonic while emotional musical lines. Composers such as Monteverdi and Handel sound along while today intervals\, chords and rhythms can be heard\, reminding the minimal music of Philip Glass.” Kees Wieringa was museum director of the Kranenburgh Museum in Bergen\, and since 2016 has been the director of the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Qatar. Wieringa has also organised and curated an exhibition ‘The Majlis – Cultures in Dialogue’ together with UNESCO. It was featured all over the world. About his time in Qatar he published a bestseller ‘Inshallah’. At the moment he established his own cultural center in the neighborhood of Paris\, named YXIE – Manoir des Arts. \nA short anecdote: The composer Simeon ten Holt met the heavily pregnant mother of Winter Wieringa\, Moos d’Herripon\, just before she gave birth. He gently touched her belly and noticed that the unborn Winter was very active\, as if dancing inside. A day later\, Winter was born. Inspired by this\, Ten Holt decided to dedicate his “Fourth Solo Devil’s Dance” to Winter. It also became his final piano solo composition. \nProgram \n\nSimeon ten Holt – Natalon in E\nJakob ter Veldhuis – Postnuclearwinterscenario\nPhilip Glass – The Poet Acts\nAlvin Curran – For Cornelius\nJohn Cage – In a Landscape (with dance of Maddy Elliot and Winter Wieringa)\nSimeon ten Holt – Solo Devil Dance 4 (with dance of Winter Wieringa)\n\nComposers \n\nSimeon ten Holt\nJacob TV\nAlvin Curran\nPhillip Glass\n\nPerformers \n\nKees Wieringa – piano\nWinter Wieringa – dance\nMaddy Elliott (New York based dancer) – dance\n\nSupported by the Performing Arts Fund Netherlands\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/piano-dance/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2023 New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kees-Wieringa-and-Simeon-ten-Holt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T211500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220808T091740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220826T095654Z UID:10000097-1663959600-1663967700@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85 DESCRIPTION:Photo: Adam Tendler and Vicky Chow \nThe Village Trip partners with Victoria Bond and Cutting Edge Concerts to celebrate the legacy of ground-breaking composer Philip Glass.\nPianists Vicky Chow\, Marilyn Nonken\, Adam Tendler\, Joan Forsyth\, Emily Tong\, and The Bond Trio (Pauline Kim Harris\, violin; Chieh-Fan Yiu\, viola; Coleman Itzkoff\, cello) and others will pair Glass’s work with music that responds to the space he created. Homages\, reactions – Ann Southam’s Glass Houses\, Victoria Bond’s “Dancing on Glass”\, Jonathan Dawe’s “Glass Harmonica” – plus works by Charles Wuorinen\, Nico Muhly and Steve Reich. \n“…what you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We’re not talking about inventing a new language\, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages” – Philip Glass \nFrom the East Village in the 1960s\, composer Philip Glass turned the music world upside-down. Minimalist art and music reacted against the sheer difficulty of modernist practice\, its density and complexity. Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85 both celebrates and explores the new space his work opened up – a space that brought new musical challenges. \nFive new music pianists will pair a Glass piece with music composed in response – some inspired by and in synch with Glass’s work\, some in reaction. The program will include Glass’s “Etudes”\, “Metamorphoses”\, and “In Memory of Charles Wuorinen” plus works by John Dawe\, Ann Southam\, Charles Wuorinen and Steve Reich. \n7pm Prelude and performance by young artists from the Third Street Music Settlement School.\nThe main program begins at 7.30pm.\nA reception with the artists follows the concert. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nPerformers\nPianists Marilyn Nonken\, Vicky Chow\, Adam Tendler\, Joan Forsyth\, Emily Tong and others \nComposers\nPhilip Glass\, Jonathan Dawe\, Victoria Bond\, Ann Southam\, Nico Muhly\, Steve Reich\, Eve Beglarian\, Yann Tiersen\,  Tristan Murail and Charles Wuorinen \n\nBiographies\nFor composer Ann Southam (Glass Houses)\, early Glass was a revelation and an invitation to create something new – the collection Glass Houses combines the Glass aesthetic with Reich’s processes of gradual changes\, the Canadian fiddle tunes Southam had heard since childhood\, and a luminosity all her own. She has said: “I was looking for a way of writing music that would have a feminist aesthetic\, because what was thought of as feminist music back in those days was usually vocal music\, and it would be the words that would give the feminist meaning. I wanted something where the very workings of the music would reflect a feminist aesthetic.” \nSoutham found that minimalist iterative compositions reminded her of “women’s work” – repetitive\, monotonous tasks such as knitting and cleaning that nevertheless sustain life. She devoted her life to making music and making a difference – particularly when it came to advancing gender equality. She was a great supporter of the Canadian Women’s Foundation. \n  \nJonathon Dawe was a student of arch-modernist Milton Babbitt and is celebrated for his five brilliant operas\, often unfolding through processes where Baroque harmonies are fractalized in several different ways. He wrote “Glass Harmonica” as a homage to Philip Glass – fractalized minimalism. It and Charles Wuorinen’s “Andante Espressivo” from the Sonata for Piano and Guitar were written for and premiered by Forsyth and Anderson\, who perform the works on this program. Wuorinen and Glass were at artistic odds\, at opposite poles of the New York musical landscape. So Glass’s “In Memory of Charles Wuorinen” is a grand gesture to a composer with whom he had very little in common. \n  \nComposer Victoria Bond’s commissions include the American Ballet Theater\, Jacob’s Pillow\, Cygnus\, Houston and Shanghai Orchestras\, Cleveland and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestras\, the American Opera Project and the Cassatt String Quartet. Performance highlights include the world premiere of Bond’s opera Clara at the Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival; Mrs. President\, performed by the New York City Opera\, and The Miracle of Light premiered at Chamber Opera Chicago. Her compositions have been performed by the Dallas Symphony\, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, the Irish National Orchestra\, the Shanghai Symphony and members of the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphonies. \nBond is Artistic Director of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival\, which she founded in 1998. She is a frequent lecturer at the Metropolitan Opera. \n  \nBorn in Le Havre in 1947\, Tristan Murail received advanced degrees in classical and North African Arabic from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes\, as well as a degree in economic science\, while at the same time pursuing his musical studies. In 1967\, he became a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory\, and also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris\, graduating three years later. In 1971\, he was awarded the Prix de Rome\, and later received a First Prize in composition from the Paris Conservatory. He spent the next two years in Rome\, at the Villa Medicis. \nUpon returning to Paris in 1973\, he co-founded the Ensemble L’Itineraire with a group of young composers and instrumentalists. The ensemble quickly gained wide recognition for its fundamental research in the area of instrumental performance and live electronics. \nIn the 1980s\, Tristan Murail used computer technology to further his research in the analysis and synthesis of acoustic phenomena. He developed his own system of microcomputer-assisted composition\, and then collaborated with Ircam for several years\, where he taught composition from 1991 to 1997\, and took part in the conception of the computer-assisted composition program “Patchwork”. In 1997\, Tristan Murail was named professor of composition at Columbia University in New York\, teaching there until 2010. \nAgain in Europe\, he continued giving master-classes and seminars all over the world\, was guest professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg for three years\, and is currently guest professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. \n  \nYann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings\, music collaborations and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments\, primarily the electric guitar\, the piano\, synthesisers and the violin\, but also instruments such as the melodica\, xylophone\, toy piano\, harpsichord\, piano accordion or even typewriter. \nTiersen is often mistaken for a soundtrack composer; as he is quoted about himself: “I’m not a composer and I really don’t have a classical background\,” but his real focus is on touring and recording studio albums\, which are often used for film soundtracks. Tracks taken from his first three studio albums were used for the soundtrack of the 2001 French film Amélie. \n  \nAccording to the New York Times\, Eve Beglarian is a “humane\, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific\, engaging and surprising body of work\,” she has also been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for her “innovation\, risk-taking\, and experimentation.” \nBeglarian’s current projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel and writer/director Mallory Catlett about women in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present; a piece about the controversial Balthus painting Thérèse Dreaming for vocalist Lucy Dhegrae; and a duo for uilleann pipes and organ that was premiered by Renée Louprette and Ivan Goff at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Since 2001\, she has been creating A Book of Days\, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress… an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements” (Los Angeles Times). \nBeglarian’s chamber\, choral\, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale\, the American Composers Orchestra\, the Bang on a Can All-Stars\, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, the California EAR Unit\, the Orchestra of St Luke’s\, loadbang\, Newspeak\, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble\, and individual performers including Maya Beiser\, Lara Downes\, Lucy Dhegrae\, and Thomas Feng. \nHighlights of Beglarian’s work in music theater include music for Mabou Mines’ Obie-winning Dollhouse\, Animal Magnetism\, Ecco Porco\, Choephorai\, and Shalom Shanghai\, all directed by Lee Breuer; Forgiveness\, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater’s production of The Bacchae\, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. \nShe has collaborated with choreographers including Ann Carlson\, Robert LaFosse\, Victoria Marks\, Susan Marshall\, David Neumann\, Take Ueyama\, and Megan Williams\, and with visual and video artists including Cory Arcangel\, Anne Bray\, Vittoria Chierici\, Barbara Hammer\, Kevork Mourad\, Shirin Neshat\, Matt Petty\, Bradley Wester\, and Judson Wright. Performance projects include Brim\, Songs from a Book of Days\, The Story of B\, Open Secrets\, Hildegurls’ Ordo Virtutum\, twisted tutu\, and typOpera. \n  URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/glass-houses-celebrating-philip-glass-at-85/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Adam-Tendler-and-Vicky-Chow.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220805T100224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220905T084355Z UID:10000010-1663873200-1663882200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Charlie Parker & Stefan Wolpe DESCRIPTION:Photo: Hilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions \nGreenwich Village\, famed for its rebel poets and painters\, was also a hotbed of revolutionary politics. Charlie Parker is revered for his creation\, with Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk\, of bebop. Composer Stefan Wolpe\, a German-Jewish composer who had fled the Nazis\, settled in Westbeth Artist Housing on West and Bethune streets. He taught and mentored a wide variety of avant-gardists and jazz musicians and was a friend of Parker. Like him\, he kept his music radical. \nHilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions\, experts in bebop\, will cover some Charlie Parker\, as well as their original work. \nLegendary composer and improviser David Amram was acquainted with all of the figures involved in this concert. He knew Wolpe\, jammed with Parker\, Dizzy\, and Monk; and he knew the abstract expressionist painters. David\, Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip\, will speak about bebop. He will sit in with Hill and the Jazz Expressions and perform Parker’s Now’s the Time before going to Farm Aid and joining Willie Nelson. \nThe Momenta String Quartet will perform works by Wolpe and his student Matthew Greenbaum\, along with a new work written especially for The Village Trip by Greenbaum’s protégé\, Hannah Selin. \nWhen Wolpe arrived in New York in 1938 he immersed himself in the art world as he had done in Berlin\, and Weimar\, where he was part of the Bauhaus scene and an active Dadaist. In the US\, he joined with the abstract expressionist painters at the Eighth Street School\, an important center of radical arts; there are definite traces of “action painting” in his work of the time. The same has been said of the bebop players –a kindred energy. In Wolpe’s work\, artistic values from Berlin and the Bauhaus are transformed as he absorbed New York’s abstract expressionism and bebop. These influences are seen in the list of those he befriended in New York – Charlie Parker\, Gil Evans\, Miles Davis\, John Carisi\, Franz Klein\, Willem and Elaine De Kooning\, Mark Rothko\, Jack Tworkov\, Jackson Pollock. \nThe concert will feature work by Wolpe’s students Elie Yarden and Matthew Greenbaum\, along with a new piece especially written for The Village Trip by Greenbaum’s student Hannah Selin. \n7pm prelude and discussion with David Amram; 7:30pm concert \nPresented in partnership with the Stefan Wolpe Society\nPerformers\n\nMomenta String Quartet – Emilie-Anne Gendron\, and Alex Shiozaki\, violin; Stephanie Griffin\, viola; and Michael Haas\, cello.\nHilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions – Hilliard Greene\, bass; TK Blue\, sax; Sharp Radway\, piano/ keyboard; Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax\, drums.\nDavid Amram\, composer and improviser\n\nComposers\n\nCharlie Parker\nStefan Wolpe String Quartet\nMatthew Greenbaum (Wolpe’s youngest protégé) Quartet No. 2\nHannah Selin (student of Matthew Greenbuam) offers a string quartet for The Village Trip\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nComposers\nLegendary jazz musician Charlie Parker was born Charles Christopher Parker Jr. on August 29\, 1920\, in Kansas City\, Kansas. The year 1945 proved to be a landmark one for Parker. For the first time\, he became the leader of his own group while also performing with Dizzy Gillespie on the side. At the end of that year\, the two musicians launched a six-week nightclub tour of Hollywood. Together they invented an entirely new style of jazz\, commonly known as bop\, or bebop. In 1949\, Parker made his European debut at the Paris International Jazz Festival and went on to visit Scandinavia in 1950. Meanwhile\, back home in New York\, the Birdland Club was being named in his honor. \nBorn in Berlin in 1902\, Stefan Wolpe was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism\, affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus\, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists’ Club\, Black Mountain College\, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He lived and worked in Berlin until 1933 when the Nazi seizure of power forced him to move first to Vienna and then to Jerusalem before settling in New York City in 1938. In works such as Battle Piece (1942/1947) and “In a State of Flight” in Enactments for Three Pianos (1953)\, Wolpe responded self-consciously to the circumstances of his uprooted life\, a theme also explored in voluminous diaries\, correspondence\, and lectures. His densely eclectic music absorbed ideas and idioms from diverse artistic milieus\, including post-tonality\, bebop\, and Arab classical musics. He died in New York City in 1972. \nElie Yarden\, born in 1923\, was a student of Irma and Stefan Wolpe\, and Anna Burstein Bieler at the Settlement School in Philadelphia as a teenager. He was a music professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Tel Aviv University\, Vassar College and\, for many years\, at Bard College where he brought Benjamin Boretz\, Joan Tower and Roswell Rudd into the music department. Students influenced by his teaching and guidance include Elliott Sharp\, Zeena Parkins\, Adam Yauch\, Chaya Czernowin\, and Doug Henderson. His composition\, Divertimento\, conducted by Ralph Shapey\, was released on CRI records. He lives in Cambridge\, MA and is active in the Green-Rainbow Party. \nMatthew Greenbaum studied composition with Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky. Greenbaum’s awards\, fellowships and commissions include the Serge Koussevitzky Music Fund/Library of Congress\, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Meet the Composer\, the Fromm Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Penn Council on the Arts. Performances of his works include the Darmstadt Summer Festival\, the Leningrad Spring Festival\, the Jakarta Festival (Indonesia)\, Hallische Musiktage\, Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg)\, and Nuova Consonanza (Rome)\, Recordings are available from Antes\, CRI and Furious Artisans; and an all-Greenbaum CD has been released on Centaur Records. URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/charlie-parker-stefan-wolpe/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Jazz-Expressions-for-TVT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220805T152006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T084326Z UID:10000095-1663513200-1663520400@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Village Voices DESCRIPTION:Photo: Adriana Valdéz and Kitty Brazelton \nFor generations\, many of New York’s most creative people have lived\, worked and played in Greenwich Village: some briefly\, like Robert Frost\, others for their entire lives. Village Voices pairs their words with music\, adding another dimension to the work of these innovative thinkers and experimenters. \nJohn Cage and Henry Cowell were pioneers of the musical avant-garde\, experimenting with extended techniques\, indeterminacy and electro-acoustic music. Their work was controversial and ground-breaking\, redefining the art of music itself. In “The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs\,” Cage has the pianist perform a percussion part on the closed piano lid – on other occasions he prepared the inside of the piano with a selection of objects which altered the sound\, and in the celebrated 4’33” he has the pianist sit in total silence. Cowell’s setting of “The Pasture” is relatively conservative. The story goes that Cowell left the table at a dinner party to retire to the music room and compose the song at the piano. He then performed it with one of the other dinner guests! Cowell later became notorious for his arrest on charges of homosexual conduct and was championed by the Seegers. \nRuth Crawford Seeger came to the Village to study theory and composition with Charles Seeger\, whom she eventually married. The two were politically active\, and the strong left-wing slant of the texts of Chinese immigrant H.T. Tsiang attracted her. \nLike Cowell\, black composer Margaret Bonds also felt a special affinity for the poetry of Robert Frost\, and perhaps even more for that of Edna St Vincent Millay. Though separated by the color line\, the two women were alike in spirit\, both feminists committed to using their art to promote social justice. \nLong-time East Village composer Kitty Brazelton felt a similar strong pull toward the work of black poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimke\, whose play Rachel was performed before an integrated audience in New York City’s Neighborhood Playhouse in 1917. Djuna Barnes was an author\, poet and illustrator who became a fixture of Greenwich Village Bohemian society; William Anderson’s settings receive a new treatment for guitar orchestra. James Baldwin resided in the Village for most of his adult life; his themes of racial inequality and sexual identity resonated strongly with Mississippi-born Nehemiah Luckett. Poet Masha Kaléko spent much of her life as a displaced person\, fleeing first war-torn Poland for Germany\, then Berlin from the Nazis before immigrating to New York. Both Anderson and Jonathan Dawe found her poetry evocative and frighteningly relevant to contemporary times. \nWilla Cather’s writing recalled her youth in the Prairies\, but she moved to No. 5 Bank Street as a young woman and spent 14 years there. Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen loves to set prose – she was attracted to the musicality\, strength and rhythm of Cather’s “My Antonia.“ Tanya  Leon attended NYU for both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. \nThe Mannes Conservatory (New School) is a relative newcomer to Greenwich Village\, but is already producing young talent like pianist-composer Gavin Cappon\, who studied there with composer Steven Sacco. \nSharon Harms is known for fearless performances and her passionate interpretations of new music\, premiering the work of many of today’s leading composers. Cuban-born singer Adriana Valdes brings brilliant technique\, gorgeous tone and a rare musical intelligence to her singing. Both Cathy Kautsky and Joan Forsyth are lovers of words and music and the magic that transpires when the two are combined. \nPerformers: Adriana Valdez\, Sharon Harms – sopranos; Cathy Kautsky and Joan Forsyth\, piano;\nVillage Guitar Orchestra \nComposers: Henry Cowell\, John Cage\, Margaret Bonds\, Ruth Crawford Seeger\, Tania Leon\, William Anderson\, Jonathan Dawe\, Gavin Cappon\, Christine Donkin \nPoets: Edna St Vincent Millay\, Djuna Barnes\, Robert Frost\, James Baldwin\, and Willer Cather \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nBiographies\nSoprano Sharon Harms has been praised by the New York Times as “superb\,” “luscious-toned\,” “extraordinarily precise and expressive\,” and “dramatically committed and not averse to risk.” She is known for fearless performances and passionate interpretations of works new and old for the recital\, concert\, and operatic stage. Sharon has premiered the music of some of today’s leading composers and her repertoire spans periods and styles. A wide array of collaborations has seen her work in venues around the world\, and she has appeared as a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center\, and as a guest artist of the American Academy in Rome. \n  \nCuban-American soprano Adriana Valdés was born in La Habana\, Cuba\, and began her musical studies as a violin player. At a young age she moved to Mexico where she attended the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. The Mexican press considered her “youthful and charming\, possessing a vast register”\, “A force of nature” and “Vocally impeccable with an enviable comic vis.” Adriana made her debut with Opera de Bellas Artes in México in the role of Gretel in Humperdink’s Hänsel und Gretel under the baton of Niksa Bareza. She made her American debut in 2016 in the title role of Emilio Arrieta’s Marina with the Miami Lyric Opera. \n  \nFor pioneering New York City composer\, bandleader\, and multi-instrumentalist Kitty Brazelton\, music is personal\, and the personal is universal. Her latest recording project ​COVID Choirs​ will feature works including “Storm”\, a retranslation of Psalm 104 written after Hurricane Sandy. Brazelton confronts encroaching invisibility with ​The Planes of Your Location​\, a live concert experience featuring Isaura String Quartet\, premiered days before the global shutdown. The Essential Prayers Project​ redefines the tradition of prayer\, making powerful words of hurt and hope accessible to all\, religion aside. “Brainy\, boisterous and quintessentially downtown” wrote Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. \n  \nThe highly innovative and conjured world of composer Jonathan Dawe joins Baroque imagery with a modernist mix\, cast with dynamic dramatic flair. Commended for his “quirky\, fascinating modernist variations on earlier styles” (Time Out)\, his music involves the recasting of energies and sounds of the past into decisively new expressions\, through compositional workings based upon fractal geometry. The Flowering Arts\, a bold fractured transformation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Les arts florissants\, commissioned by the Boston Symphony\, was hailed as a “powerful premiere” (Boston Globe). \n  \nChristine Donkin is an award-winning composer whose music appeals to a broad range of listeners and performers. Described by critics as “stunning”\, “poignant”\, and “astonishingly beautiful”\, her work is promoted by several publishers and is performed all over the continent and beyond. \nChristine enjoys composing music for a wide range of performers. While her compositions have been programmed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and the Moscow Conservatory\, they are also frequently played at concerts featuring music students\, community orchestras\, and church choirs. \n  URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/village-voices/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/adriana-valdez-and-kitty-brazelton-village-voices.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220917T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220917T211500 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220809T082750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T090635Z UID:10000100-1663443000-1663449300@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Bowers Fader Duo DESCRIPTION:Cutting Edge Concerts joins The Village Trip to present the Bowers Fader Duo performing both classical and contemporary repertoire. Their ongoing mission is to promote new American art songs for mezzo and guitar\, through commissions\, performances\, and recordings. Since 2016\, the Duo has presented their series\, New American Art Songs for Mezzo and Guitar three times each season in venues around New York City. Bowers Fader Duo’s Seventh Annual Concert will be presented this October. \nAt St John’s in the Village\, the Bowers Fader Duo offers two world premieres\, by Victoria Bond and Tim Mukherjee\, each written especially for the duo. Bond has set four poems by Greenwich Village poet Masha Kaléko\, “Songs of Darkness”. Tim Mukherjee’s cycle\, Mooncalves and Communions\, is based on poems by e.e. cummings\, a key figure on the Village scene from the 1920s until his death in 1962. The concert will also feature songs by Frank Brickle\, which include a setting of Walt Whitman; David Claman settings of Herman Melville poetry; and works by Randall Woolf and William Anderson. \nPerformers: Jessica Bowers\, mezzo\, and Oren Fader\, guitar \nComposers: Victoria Bond\, Randall Woolf\, Tim Mukherjee\, Frank Brickle\, Gene Pritsker\, William Anderson\, and David Claman \nCutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival is produced by Welltone New Music\, whose mission is to support creative music projects that serve the public through cultural diversity\, education\, outreach and innovation; to supply living composers with performance opportunities; and to provide the public with a way to experience contemporary music in a personal way\, bridging the gap between audience and composer. Onstage discussions between each composer and Bond help the listener understand the creators and their creations. Welltone New Music\, Inc. is non-profit tax exempt 501 (c) (3) Corporation \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nFrank Brickle studied composition and piano at Princeton\, where his principal teacher was Milton Babbitt. For over fifty years he has been widely performed in the Americas\, Europe\, and Asia. Much of Brickle’s earlier work involved electronic and synthesized sound and fixed media. In the late 1980s he began exploring ways to use the wealth of compositional techniques that emerged in the last century for a broader range of musical goals. Most recently he has concentrated on vocal music\, often with small chamber ensembles featuring the guitar. \nDavid Claman set out to be a painter but after career twists and turns began writing music at the age of 28. “Why did I start composing? Why does anyone write music? My first composition teacher\, John McDonald\, had a pretty good answer: ‘Because there are things you aren’t hearing.’ Yes\, I wanted to hear something different. I wanted many things to be different. Things you don’t understand\, that may even make you uncomfortable can—if you let them in—rewire your brain.” \nTim Mukherjee is a composer and performer based in New York City. His writes for acoustic and electronic instruments and media. He also plays in an electronic improvisatory group\, RMA. Tim attended UCLA\, studying with Alden Ashforth\, Paul Reale and Henri Lazarof\, and Harvard\, studying with Earl Kim\, Leon Kirchner\, Fred Lerdahl and Ivan Tcherepnin. In music technology\, he has been active in the music software industry\, joining Mark of the Unicorn (MoTU) at the beginning of their music software product development. He was one of the creators of Digital Performer\, a Digital Audio Workstation application. \nComposer Paul Salerni’s music “pulses with life\, witty musical ideas and instrumental color” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and has been described by the New York Times as “impressive” and “playful.” Recent premieres include Four City Scenes for mezzo and guitar on poems by Richard Wilbur and Kevin Young\, Haunted\, a one-act dance opera on a libretto by Dana Gioia for baritone\, three dancers\, string quartet\, and percussion\, and Repentance for mezzo and guitar on a poem by Natasha Trethewey. \nRandall Woolf studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and at Harvard with Joseph Maneri\, earning a PhD. He composed a ballet of Where the Wild Things Are in collaboration with Maurice Sendak and Septime Webre. Randall works extensively with John Cale and has arranged over fifty Cale songs for chamber orchestra\, including the complete albums Paris 1919 and Music for A New Society\, and songs from The Velvet Underground and Nico. His works have been performed by Kathleen Supové\, Ethel Ransom Wilson\, Tara O’Connor\, Lindsey Goodman\, the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, Kronos Quartet\, the Seattle Symphony\, and others. \nGene Pritsker has written over eight hundred compositions\, including chamber operas\, orchestral and chamber works\, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles\, all influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation\, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble. He also co-directs Composers Concordance and is a co-founder and composer-in-residence of the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble. Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/DJ and producer and incorporates each of these attributes into his music. He has worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies\, including Cloud Atlas and The Matrix Resurrections. \n  URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/bowers-fader-duo/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bowers-Fader-Duo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220804T084726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220805T104302Z UID:10000009-1663354800-1663360200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Secret Music: Celebrating David Del Tredici at 85 DESCRIPTION:David Del tredici Photo Susan Johann\nComposer David Del Tredici has been a resident of the West Village since the 1970s and has created some of the most important music of our time\, including his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning work All in the Golden Afternoon. Since the 1990s he has created a body of music that celebrates his own gay sexuality such as Gay Life\, commissioned by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. \nThis program by pianist Marc Peloquin celebrates Del Tredici’s artistry as an openly and uninhibited gay composer and performer who has opened the door to future generations of LGBTQ+ classical musicians. The major work will be his piano suite\, Mandango\, consisting of five movements dedicated to gay couples who are friends of his as well as an homage to his mentor Aaron Copland. \nAlso included on the program will be Recollections\, a post-impressionistic and deeply poetic work by composer and pianist Robert Helps\, one of the most significant influences in David’s life. Dennis Tobenski was a student of David and composed Growl for Marc Peloquin\, a six-minute tour-de-force replete with scintillating rhythms and triumphal chords. \nPerformer\nMarc Peloquin\, piano \nMain photo: David Del Tredici composing \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/secret-music-celebrating-david-del-tredici-at-85/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/David-Del-Tredici-composing.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220803T125932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T143052Z UID:10000008-1663011000-1663018200@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:7th Ave. S\, Cygnus Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Apologies\, but we have had to postpone this event due to Covid.\nIn the New York Times\, Paul Griffiths described Cygnus as an “enterprising and supple group featuring guitars\, strings and woodwinds in pairs….” Composer Allison Loggins-Hull’s latest work\, 7th Ave. S. calls for an electric guitar\, bridging into the psychedelic sound-world of Greenwich Village\, and telling her Village Stories in three movements. \nRenowned soprano Leah Brzyski will join Cygnus for the premiere of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Gypsum\, setting of poems by Diedre Huckaby. \nCarman Moore riffs on “Cygnus” in Swans Across the Milky Way. \n“When ensemble Cygnus reached out regarding a new work\, we spoke about the piece being part of a program for The Village Trip\, a festival celebrating arts and activism in Greenwich Village\,”\, said Allison Loggins-Hull. “I immediately chose to reflect on my own experience living in the West Village between 2008-2010. At the time\, I was very much in the early stages of ‘starting my life’ and I fed off the energy\, culture\, and people of the community. 7th Ave S. embodies my strongest memories and feelings during that time.” \nRicardo Zohn-Muldoon composed Gypsum for the Cygnus Ensemble and soprano Leah Brzyski\, thanks to a commission from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress. The work is a setting of texts by Deidre Huckabay that reflect on her childhood teddy bear\, Scoliosis. \nDeidre described the process of writing these texts as unfolding “in a very freeform way\, keeping something like a journal on the experience of spending time driving\, thinking about Scoliosis\, thinking about death\, reading about it\, dreaming\, living\, anything.” Deidre’s texts elicited a playful attitude in my musical imagination and the desire to give space to a wide variety of inter-related musical ideas and associations that seemed whimsically pertinent.” \nCarman Moore has many Village connections. He was the new music critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s and ‘70s. Cygnus (Swans Across the Milky Way)\, a work for flute\, English horn\, two guitars\, violin\, and cello\, was in part inspired by Carman’s fascination with Orpheus\, Greek god of music\, married to Eurydice\, whom he famously tried to rescue from the clutches of death. Orpheus was himself killed and turned into a swan…cygnus in (Latinized) Greek. \nThis work not only honors the god of music but also the constellation in the Northern hemisphere of the Milky Way named Cygnus\, the Swan. Cygnus contains some of the largest bodies in the known Universe\, including Cygnus X-1\, Deneb\, and NGC6946 (the Fireworks Galaxy). Carman describes this work as “a kind of vision…one of an ensemble of mystics in flight through an enormous variety of magical space creations\, one of which is Planet Earth.” \nCygnus Ensemble \nPerformers\nJohn Ferrari\, conductor\nLeah Brzyski\, soprano\nTara Helen O’Connor\, flute\nJames Austin Smith\, oboe\nCalvin Wiersma\, violin\nSusannah Chapman\, cello\nWilliam Anderson\, guitar & mandolin\nOren Fader\, guitar and electric guitar \nComposers\nAllison Loggins-Hull\nCarman Moore\nRicardo Zohn-Muldoon \nPhoto: Allison Loggins-Hull \n  URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/7th-ave-s-cygnus-ensemble/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Cygnus-Ensemble-Allison-Loggins-Hull.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220810T144736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T083100Z UID:10000101-1662908400-1662915600@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:Classical Jack: Chamber Music Which Inspired Kerouac and Music Inspired by Him DESCRIPTION:Musically as important as Beethoven\,\nYet not regarded as such at all\nSo wrote Jack Kerouac in the 240th Chorus of Mexico City Blues\, speaking of Charlie “Bird” Parker\, whom he regarded as the perfect musician. But Jack’s love of jazz did not diminish his great love for classical music and his knowledge of it. His innate musicianship\, of course explains the music of his prose\, and his ability to improvise words to music\, as he did with his old friend David Amram. \nAs part of Jack Kerouac 100\, David gathers long-time friends – top-flight classical musicians with whom he has long worked and all of whom have played at Village Trip’s in the past – for an afternoon of music that inspired the great novelist\, and in turn inspires us. Works by J S Bach\, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie – and by David himself\, including a new composition commissioned to mark the centennial which receives its premiere at The Village Trip. \nUnaccompanied Suite\, J.S. Bach\nKen Radnofsky\, alto saxophone \nClaire de Lune\, Claude Debussy          \nYoshiko Kline\, piano \nGymnopédie No 1\, Eric Satie    \nYoshiko Kline\, piano \nThe Wind and the Rain\, David Amram  \nConsuelo Sherba\, viola; Yoshiko Kline\, piano \nGreenwich Village Portraits\, David Amram        \nKen Radnofsky\, alto saxophone; Yoshiko Kline\, piano \nAh\, Take Me Back to the Village*\, David Amram  \nElizabeth Farnum\, mezzo soprano; William Anderson and Oren Fader guitars \n*World Premiere Commissioned by the Robert Shapiro Fund for The Village Trip\, celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday. Text from Kerouac’s The Lonesome Traveler \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nDavid Amram writes:\nJack’s favorite composer was Bach\, just as he loved the writings of Dostoevsky\, Cervantes\, Victor Hugo\, Emily Bronte\, Beaudelaire\, Dylan Thomas\, Langston Hughes and Thomas Wolfe. Because he was a lyric poet who adored the classics of Europe as well as the wonders of the New\nWorld\, he embraced anything that touched his heart. \nLike Dante’s use of the terza rima\, Jack saw and heard the beauty of every day vernacular speech as a lasting form of communicating. He could have been a professor of comparative literature. \nHe used that same discipline and love of storytelling and appreciation of people and places in all his formal writings\, the same way that the composers\, writers and artists of all genres have always done. \nAnd he did it in a way of his own that reflected his own sensibilities\, rather than being concerned about being fashionable or au courant. \nDecades before the intellectual establishment understood the importance of jazz and the cultures that created it\, Kerouac had an innate understanding of this music as a profound form of expression that was classical in its own way. \nHe was a natural musician and appreciated jazz\, French-Canadian folk lore\, Asian\, Native and Latin-American music\, and he could improvise words and music with ease. \nHe was an avatar for Spontaneity and Formality and was a joy to play with as well as to compose for. \nAnd as an author\, he wrote to engage the reader in the same way that improvising musicians of the 18th and 19th did when as composers – they wrote it down in the formal tradition try to make it feel natural\, so that other musicians could be guests in their world and have those who listened to them feel welcome. \nWe wrote several pieces together as well as those which we made up on the spot. Having set part of Lonesome Traveler in my cantata A Year in Our Land back in 1965 for four soloists\, chorus and orchestra\, it was a treat to revisit Lonesome Traveler fifty-five years later and set some of Jack’s words to music again. \nThis splendid collection of his recollections and observations celebrates the Greenwich Village of the then and the Greenwich Village of now. \nI am grateful to have had the chance to compose it and hope it inspires all artists to collaborate\, work hard\, tell their own stories in their own way and hope for the best. \nDavid Amram\nAugust 10\, 2022\nBeacon NY \nJack Kerouac\, Dody Muller\, David Amram in New York City in 1959. Photo by John Cohen.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/classical-jack-chamber-music-which-inspired-kerouac-and-music-inspired-by-him/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Music,Jack Kerouac 100,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Jack-Kerouac-Classical-Jack.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220910T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220910T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20220802T105802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T160509Z UID:10000004-1662825600-1662845400@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Village Trip GuitarFest: Ah\, Let’s go Back to the Village DESCRIPTION:David Amram and his great friend Jack Kerouac caroused the Village in the 1950s and 60s. Amram – a living legend well known for his lush film scores for Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass and Frankenheimer’s Manchurian Candidate – worked with Joseph Papp\, and was Leonard Bernstein’s first composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic. \nAt GuitarFest: Ah\, Let’s go Back to the Village\, Amram is part of an international contingent of composers setting poems by Village poets. In addition\, Reyes Oteo\, from Malaga\, Spain\, sets poetry by Gamel Woolsey\, who lived on Patchin Place in the 1920s and went on to spend many years near Malaga\, where she is buried in the English cemetery. Israeli guitarist-composer Akiva Daniel sets poems by Masha Kaleko\, who lived on Minetta Street. Kaléko was twice a refugee\, first from World War One\, when her family fled Poland for Berlin. There she was a successful poet\, published in German newspapers\, until the Nazis forced her out of Germany. \nVillage Poets: Jack Kerouac\, Masha\, Kaléko\, Louis Zukofsky\, Gamel Woolsey\, Djuana Barnes \nVillage Composers: David Amram\, David Glaser\, Harold Meltzer\, Gene Pritsker\, Elie Yarden\, Victoria Bond\, William Anderson \nAnd works by Gary Philo\, Frank Brickle\, Reyes Oteo\, Daniele Akiva\, Klaus Ager\, Damon Ferrante\, William Anderson\, Mark Delpriora\, Richard Festinger\, Richard Cameron Wolfe. \nFeaturing \n\nTilted Axes\, Patrick Grant\, Director\nSharon Harms\, soprano\nElizabeth Farnum\, soprano\, w/ Vox n Plux\nJuanjo Guillem\, percussion\n\nThe Village Guitar Orchestra\, William Anderson\, conductor\nMembers: Oren Fader\, Dan Lippel\, Daniel Conant\, Austin Tobia\, Kevin Gallagher\, John Chang\, Adam Negrin\, Valentina Savu\, Federico Diaz\, Noam Beili\, Peter Argondizza\, Liz Hogg\, Lars Frandsen\, Edison Pereira\, Kyle Miller\, Katherine Perleman\, Alex DeSalvo\, Diego Andrade\, Jack Ward\, Steven Sabet\, Loren Fortna\, David Chidsey\, and Joseph Parisi. \n4 to 5:30pm\nMusic of the Americas\nWith Tilted Axes\, directed by Patrick Grant; the Ringston-Ward Duo\, featuring flutist Jessica Ringston\, with guitarist Jack Ward; The Bothe-Zehner Duo\, with soprano Theresia Bothe and guitarist Yvonne Zehner; and guitar orchestra Sheer Pluck! \nTheresia Bothe\, soprano (on left) and Yvonne Zehner\, guitarist\nFeaturing guitars soloists Yvonne Zehner\, Kevin Gallagher\, Noam Beili\, Daniel Conant\, Edison Pereyra\, Liz Hogg\, Peter Argondizza\, and Michael Vascones\, Gene Pritsker\, William Anderson \nAnd works by Barrios\, Villa-Lobos\, Gene Pritsker and William Anderson\, Leo Brouwer\, Jorge Cardoso. \n6 to 7:30pm\nGlobal Greenwich Village\nWith electric guitar quartet Bodies Electric\, and David Claman’s Ghostbusters.\nSoprano Sharon Harms and percussionist Juanjo Guillem join the guitarists for new works by Austria’s Klaus Ager and Spain’s Reyes Oteo. \nPlus guitar music for one to four guitars by Richard Camerion-Wolfe\, Damon Ferrante\, Gary Philo and Frank Oteri and others – and a grand finale by guitar orchestra Sheer Pluck! \n8 to 9:30pm\nAh\, Let’s Go Back to the Village\nAttend the premiere of David Amram’s Jack Kerouac setting “Ah\, Let’s Go Back to the Village\,” commissioned for Vox n Plux by the Roger Shapiro Fund for The Village Trip 2022. We will also hear the premiere of a new work by Daniel Akiva\, plus compositions by Carlos Fariñas\, Frank Brickle\, and William Anderson. To close\, David Amram will join the guitar orchestra in a special version of Pully My Daisy. \nFeaturing Vox n Plux; soprano Elizabeth Farnum; guitarists William Anderson and Oren Fader; The Bothe-Zehner Duo; guitarist Yvonne Zehner\, and guitar orchestra Sheer Pluck! \nConcert-goers should feel free to come and go during the day on the same ticket but please respect both performers and audience.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\nComposers\nKlaus Ager is an Austrian composer and conductor. Born in Salzburg\, he studied piano\, composition and conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg\, and musicology at Salzburg University. He continued his studies in composition with Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. From 1975 to 1986\, he directed the Österreichische Ensemble für Neue Musik\, and from 1995 to 2000 he was rector of the Mozarteum Hochschule in Salzburg. Beginning in 2000\, Klaus dedicated himself to working as a guest composer and lecturer in South and North America\, and to campaigning throughout Europe for an improved standing for composers. From 2006 to 2014\, he was chairman of the European Composers’ Forum (ECF) in Brussels. \nReyes Oteo is an electronic luthier and composer\, author of more than 70 works. She has taught as Head of Composition and Instrumentation at the Music Conservatories of Cordoba and Malaga\, and as the director of the Contemporary Music Workshop. She has invented and developed a number of edge-cutting interactive instruments and the KittKittPEOW!!!! cyborg project. Reyes has had pieces commissioned for performances in auditoriums and festivals such as the Fonoteca Nacional México\, CUNY\, Roulette\, Audiotheque Miami\, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía\, Contemporary Music Festival of Cordoba\, Campus Estellae Festival\, Guggenheim Museum\, RadicaldB Etopia and the Sibelius Academy Centre in Helsinki. \nGuitarist/composer Daniel Akiva was born in Haifa in 1953\, a son of a Sephardic Israeli family of many generations. He graduated from the Robin Music Academy in Jerusalem and earned the Guitar Artist Certificate. Daniel plays the guitar and lute and is a prominent arranger in the Sephardic Jewish music arena. He composes original works that draw upon Sephardic Jewish musical traditions. \nFrank J. Oteri has been a crusader for new compositional ideas and the breaking down of barriers both in his own music and as a writer and speaker about the music of others. His musical compositions\, which reconcile structural concepts from minimalism and serialism and frequently explore microtonality\, have been performed in venues ranging from Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and the St. Petersburg Conservatory Hall in Russia to Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum and the PONCHO Concert Hall in Seattle where John Cage first prepared a piano. \nMark Delpriora has enjoyed a tripartite career. As a composer his works have been published by Editions Orphee\, Bèrben\, Les Productions ‘D’oz and Mel Bay. As a performer\, Mark’s New York debut was praised by the New York Times: “The first notes of Mark Delpriora’s guitar recital established him as a musician of authority. In a little Mozart transcription by Julian Bream\, he showed a rare feeling for the specific gravity of a Mozartean phrase\, for the inevitability of its rise and fall. Delpriora is a guitarist to be reckoned with.” Mark serves as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and the Undergraduate Department and Extension Division at Juilliard. \nPerformers\nSheer Pluck Guitar Orchestra brings together guitarists from all over the New York City metropolitan area. Sheer Pluck was featured on WNYC’s New Sounds Live\, hosted by John Schaefer at the Wintergarden for the premiere of David Lang’s “Interview”. Last March\, the group performed at the Museo del Barrio\, guests of the Riverside Symphony. That occasion was very likely the only time\, ever\, that a guitar orchestra was hosted by an established symphony orchestra. The Orchestra has given several sold-out performances at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall\, and a performance at the Morgan Library connecting with an exhibit about Ernest Hemingway between the wars. It was founded in the early 21st century by guitarist\, composer and arranger William Anderson\, who often conducts the group. \nSoprano Theresia Bothe and guitarist Yvonne Zehner together look for the core of the musical content of a song. Their personal arrangements reflect a vivid interpretation and an original way of approaching each piece of music. They believe in engaging the audience in this way\, heightening their perception of the emotions and profound feelings expressed in this music. They owe the elaboration of this method to the joyful atmosphere\, sensations and moments related physically to the Mediterranean. Time spent together there has inspired the creation of this program in which classical and traditional music interact in free and expressive ways. \nGuitarist Michael Vascones was born in 1998 in Queens\, New York. Inspired by watching his father play\, he started guitar at the age of twelve and began his undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School in 2016\, studying under Sharon Isbin. Michael is currently pursuing his graduate degree at Manhattan School of Music as a student of Mark Delpriora. He has won first prize in numerous competitions\, most recently he took the National Federation of Music Clubs Classical Guitar Award. \nGuitarist Daniel Lippel\, called an “exciting soloist” (New York Times)\, “precise and sensitive” (Boston Globe)\, and a “formidable guitarist” (Chicago Magazine)\, enjoys a career ranging through solo and chamber performances and recordings to collaborations in diverse contexts. He has been the guitarist for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) since 2005. His appearances include the Macau Music Festival (China)\, Teatro Amazonas (Brazil)\, Ojai Festival\, Acht Brücken Festival (Germany)\, and the Mostly Mozart Festival (New York). Lippel is co-founder and Director of New Focus Recordings\, and has also recorded for Bridge\, Kairos\, Wergo\, Innova\, and Tzadik. DMA from MSM\, under David Starobin’s guidance. URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-village-trip-guitarfest-ahlets-go-back-to-the-village/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Highlights,2022 Music,Jack Kerouac 100,New Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Anderson-The-Village-Guitar-Orchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20210721T140121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210925T145523Z UID:10000035-1632596400-1632603600@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:The Joy of Music: A Concert by Students of The Third Street Music School Settlement DESCRIPTION:This event will also be livestreamed. The Youtube link will be added to this page shortly before the performance begins. You will be able to watch this event live\, or at any time after broadcast.\nFollow this link to view the Livestream of this concert on Youtube: https://youtu.be/xgEOljh_ubs\n \nA musical journey through Greenwich Village\, from the 1800s to the present: a concert by young musicians from The Third Street Music School Settlement\, America’s longest-running community school. Founded in 1894 by Emilie Wagner\, its goal was to “help poor children of the Lower East Side with music to provide a source of spiritual and cultural nourishment\, inspire achievement in its young students\, and serve as a universal language for the community’s Jewish\, Irish\, Italian\, Russian\, Greek and Hungarian immigrants”. \nThird Street offers students of all ages and abilities the opportunity to become the best musicians\, dancers\, singers\, and composers they can be. With a mission to provide access to high-quality music education to all people\, no matter their financial situation\, Third Street is a music school for everyone. URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-third-street-music-school-settlement/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2021 Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Third-Street-Music-School-Settlement-logo.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T112749 CREATED:20210719T094631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T122309Z UID:10000027-1632513600-1632520800@www.thevillagetrip.com SUMMARY:David Del Tredici\, in Black and White DESCRIPTION:This event will also be livestreamed on Youtube. See below for tickets. You will be able to watch this event live\, or at any time after broadcast.\n\nAaron Copland proclaimed David Del Tredici “that rare find among composers – a creator with a truly original gift. I venture to say that his music is certain to make a lasting impression on the American musical scene. I know of no other composer of his generation who composes music of greater freshness and daring\, or with more personality.” \nDel Tredici forged a new compositional path\, neo-romanticism\, a response to the atonality of the 1960s in which he came of age. Speaking for himself\, he has said: “Music is not a religion\, nor is it a duty. It is an entertainment. All that a composer really does is realize his own particular musical fantasy with a certain selection of notes\, rhythms and timbres.” \nThe composer credits Marc Peloquin with reviving his interest in the piano and the two men have worked closely these past twenty years. Peloquin\, whose career is focused on living composers\, is in the process of recording Del Tredici’s complete works for solo piano\, some of which\, including S/M Ballade\, have been composed specially for him. \nPerformers\n\nDavid Del Tredici\nMarc Peloquin\n\nThis concert is supported by the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music. URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/music-of-david-del-tredici/ LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:2021 Highlights,2021 Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/festival/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/David-Del-Tredici-composing.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR