{"id":9095,"date":"2023-07-26T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9095"},"modified":"2023-09-07T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:13:05","slug":"simic-colors","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/simic-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Simic Colors at Salmagundi: baritone Joseph Keckler, soprano Sharon Harms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Village Trip planned to host the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic<\/strong>, along with composer Aleksandra Vrebalov<\/strong> for the premiere of Vrebalov\u2019s \u201cSimic Settings\u201d. Sadly, Charles Simic died early in 2023. Vrebalov\u2019s settings were commissioned by the American Society of Composers and Publishers\u2019 The ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund. The songs were conceived for baritone Joseph Keckler<\/strong>, \u201ca major talent with a trickster\u2019s dark humor and a range that shatters the conventional boundaries\u201d \u2014 Stephen Holden, New York Times<\/em>. As to Composer Aleksandra Vrebalov: \u201cHer musical language, inflected with Balkan and klezmer idioms, is vivid and free of clich\u00e9s\u201d \u2014 Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gene Pritsker<\/strong>, multifaceted composer, guitarist and world renowned orchestrator of major motion pictures contributes \u201cSimic Colors\u201d \u2014 settings for guitar, mandolin and soprano Sharon Harms<\/strong> -- \u201cThe White Room\u201d, \u201cGreen Lampshade\u201d, and \u201cBlack Butterfly.<\/p>\n

Another commission from The ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund & the Roger Shapiro Fund, especially for The Village Trip, facilitated the creation of a new work by Carman Moore<\/strong>. James R. Oestereich of the New York Times<\/em> described Carman Moore as a composer who not only defies categories, but \u201ctreats them with disdain,\u201d and goes on to say that he is a composer with \"a lot of music in his head, the product of his upbringing in black culture, his classical training and his voracious curiosity\u2026\u201d Moore\u2019s latest work,\u201cA Village Triptych\u201d, sets poems by Djuna Barnes, Gamel Woolsey and Carman Moore\u2019s dear friend and colleague Lennox Raphael. Raphael is remembered for the scandal surrounding his play, *Che!\u201d. Moore and Raphael were both journalists active in Greenwich Village in the 60s and 70s. Moore wrote for The Village Voice<\/em>, Raphael wrote for the underground East Village Other<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Baritone Joseph Keckler<\/strong> will select some of his work relating to Greenwich Village. Keckler often zeroes in on moments from daily life and transforms them into affecting, at times absurd underworld voyages.<\/p>\n

Composers<\/strong><\/p>\n