string quartet + audio playback + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Kronos Quartet, through the generosity of Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfman with additional support from the Barbican, London (UK), and the National Endowment for the Arts
1020/1211/2perc/pf/egtr.eb/vn.vc [all instruments amplified]
Ensemble Modern
0+pic.1.2.1/1110/3perc/egtr.kbd/2vn.vc.db
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
solo piano
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
Intentionally quiet and slow, this short video was made by simonettavespucci as an introduction to Decasia from stills and a radio interview with Morrison and Gordon.
4ca/4tpt.4tbn/2egtr.2kybd/4 female voices
ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln for Ensemble Modern
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
listen to the broadcast:
BBC Radio 3 The New Music Show’s Kate Molleson introduces the world premiere performance by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany of A Western Michael Gordon’s latest choral work, a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys.
Mantra Percussion’s New York premiere of Timber at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13-15, has been listed as one of the top ten performances for 2012 by Alex Ross (The New Yorker) and Steve Smith (TimeOut New York).
From January 9 – 14, the Prototype Festival presents a new, commissioned, chamber version of Michael Gordon’s opera Acquanetta at the Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Based on a 1940’s B-movie horror flick called Captive Wild Woman, starring an enigmatic actress and former cheesecake model named Acquanetta, the opera’s libretto is written by Deborah Artman.
Stunning and exotic, Acquanetta played the untameable and gorgeous creation resulting from a mad scientist’s experiments on an ape, a role the young actress sizzled in and played so well a sequel was soon in the can…
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