{"id":8262,"date":"2023-07-10T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=8262"},"modified":"2023-09-08T05:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:26:26","slug":"uncommon-women","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/uncommon-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Women: Celebrating Joan Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A piano salute to women composers, dedicated to Joan Tower, who originally founded the Greenwich House Series of New Music in the 1960s, raising the funds herself to support guest artists and composers.<\/p>\n

Our team of fabulous pianists perform music by women associated with the Village, including works by Meredith Monk, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Kitty Brazelton, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Soonim Kim, Jessie Montgomery and of course Tower herself. Canadian pianist Joan Forsyth, Piano Chair at the neighboring East Village Third Street Music School, will perform \u201cVast Antique Cubes\u201d and \u201cThrobbing Still\u201d from Tower\u2019s suite, \u201cNo Longer Very Clear\u201d.<\/p>\n

The dynamic Duo Mundi, George Lopez and Gulimina Mahamuti play Meredith Monk\u2019s minimalist \u201cEllis Island\u201d and Trip guest composer Errollyn Wallen\u2019s Girl in my Alphabet<\/em>. Belize-born Wallen is one of Britain\u2019s most acclaimed and performed contemporary composers, appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 for her services to music. Based on Jobim\u2019s \u201cThe Girl from Ipanema,\u201d Wallen\u2019s blockbuster duo, \u201cThe Girl in my Alphabet\u201d, delivers her enormous range of diverse references, her gift for melody and danceable rhythms.<\/p>\n

Julia Wolfe was living downtown in the shadow of the World Trade Center on Sept 11 2001. \u201cCompassion\u201d is her stark and powerful response to the events of that day.<\/p>\n

Soomin Kim received three Morton Gould Young Composer awards\u00a0 from the ASCAP foundation. She \u201cloves to explore intimacy and familiarity through her music\u201c.<\/p>\n

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