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Indoors and Out Throughout Ten-Month Season Peak Performances @ Montclair
The series opens on September 1 with “Everywhere Is the Best Seat,” a sound/light installation by composer/architect Christopher Janney, who has a long history of creating sonic and light environments in existing public spaces. Inspired by John Cage’s democratic comment, “Everything you do is music/And everywhere is the best seat,” and commandeering the Montclair State University amphitheater, this user-friendly, interactive work invites passersby to create their own sounds and light, thereby giving new, vibrant life to the space. The installation is free, accessible 24 hours a day, every day, and runs through November 14.
Working in collaboration with New Amsterdam Records, Peak Performances presents Here There Be Dragons on September 11, as members of a trio of new chamber-rock groups join forces: NOW Ensemble (Judd Greenstein), William Brittelle’s Television Landscape and Victoire (Missy Mazzoli).
Then, reaching 2000 years back in musical history, the ever-popular Shanghai Quartet will present the world premiere of Lei Liang’s “Five Seasons,” on September 12. Composed for the pipa, an ancient, lute-like string instrument, “Five Seasons” will be performed by renowned pipa master Wu Man.
On October 10, Young Concert Artists will present a quartet of four of its most talented up and coming musicians—Courtenay Budd (soprano), Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), Benjamin Moser (piano) and Wonny Song (piano), in a program of works by Poulenc, Mahler, Strauss, Kovács, Beethoven and Schubert.
So Percussion, considered America’s most innovative percussion ensemble, will present Iannis Xenakis’s contemporary polyrhythmic masterpiece “Pleiades” and Cenk Ergün’s “Proximity” on November 6.
Also scheduled in November is “Town and Country: Music of European Royalty and Aristocracy,” a program of 18th century music, designed and performed by New York-based Baroque ensemble REBEL and comprising classics by Telemann, Scheiffelhut, Fischer, Schmierer and Handel (November 7).
Cellist Carter Brey and pianist Christopher O’Riley will join musical forces in a mixed bill of Bach, Dello Joio and Grieg on February 5.
Palestinian òud player/violinist Simon Shaheen will be a guest artist in the Imani Winds concert that features the world premiere of “Zafir” (“a gentle breath”) by Shaheen. The new work is commissioned by Peak Performances to be performed on February 6.
The Shanghai Quartet returns to perform works by Bridge, Mozart and Bartók on April 2.
The season concludes May 7 and 8 with a world premiere by jazz composer Fred Hersch with text and direction by Herschel Garfein and multimedia and animation by Sarah Wickliffe. Entitled “My Coma Dreams,” the full-evening work, scored for 11 instruments and a speaker/singer, was inspired by dreams Hersch experienced during a two-month-long coma in the summer of 2008.
All tickets are $15 and are available at the Alexander Kasser Theater Box Office, by calling 973-655-5112 or online at www.peakperfs.org.
Charter bus service is provided from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal – arcade on 41st Street between 8th and 9th Avenues – to the Alexander Kasser Theater ($10 per person, roundtrip) for all Saturday and Sunday performances. Bus reservations may be made by calling 973-655-5112 or by visiting www.peakperfs.org. For train service, available only on weekdays, go online to www.njtransit.com or call 973-275-5555.
For restaurants close to the Alexander Kasser Theater, visit http://www.destinationmontclair.com
Montclair State University is located at 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey 07043.
Working in collaboration with New Amsterdam Records, Peak Performances presents Here There Be Dragons on September 11, as members of a trio of new chamber-rock groups join forces: NOW Ensemble (Judd Greenstein), William Brittelle’s Television Landscape and Victoire (Missy Mazzoli).
Then, reaching 2000 years back in musical history, the ever-popular Shanghai Quartet will present the world premiere of Lei Liang’s “Five Seasons,” on September 12. Composed for the pipa, an ancient, lute-like string instrument, “Five Seasons” will be performed by renowned pipa master Wu Man.
On October 10, Young Concert Artists will present a quartet of four of its most talented up and coming musicians—Courtenay Budd (soprano), Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), Benjamin Moser (piano) and Wonny Song (piano), in a program of works by Poulenc, Mahler, Strauss, Kovács, Beethoven and Schubert.
So Percussion, considered America’s most innovative percussion ensemble, will present Iannis Xenakis’s contemporary polyrhythmic masterpiece “Pleiades” and Cenk Ergün’s “Proximity” on November 6.
Also scheduled in November is “Town and Country: Music of European Royalty and Aristocracy,” a program of 18th century music, designed and performed by New York-based Baroque ensemble REBEL and comprising classics by Telemann, Scheiffelhut, Fischer, Schmierer and Handel (November 7).
Cellist Carter Brey and pianist Christopher O’Riley will join musical forces in a mixed bill of Bach, Dello Joio and Grieg on February 5.
Palestinian òud player/violinist Simon Shaheen will be a guest artist in the Imani Winds concert that features the world premiere of “Zafir” (“a gentle breath”) by Shaheen. The new work is commissioned by Peak Performances to be performed on February 6.
The Shanghai Quartet returns to perform works by Bridge, Mozart and Bartók on April 2.
The season concludes May 7 and 8 with a world premiere by jazz composer Fred Hersch with text and direction by Herschel Garfein and multimedia and animation by Sarah Wickliffe. Entitled “My Coma Dreams,” the full-evening work, scored for 11 instruments and a speaker/singer, was inspired by dreams Hersch experienced during a two-month-long coma in the summer of 2008.
All tickets are $15 and are available at the Alexander Kasser Theater Box Office, by calling 973-655-5112 or online at www.peakperfs.org.
Charter bus service is provided from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal – arcade on 41st Street between 8th and 9th Avenues – to the Alexander Kasser Theater ($10 per person, roundtrip) for all Saturday and Sunday performances. Bus reservations may be made by calling 973-655-5112 or by visiting www.peakperfs.org. For train service, available only on weekdays, go online to www.njtransit.com or call 973-275-5555.
For restaurants close to the Alexander Kasser Theater, visit http://www.destinationmontclair.com
Montclair State University is located at 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey 07043.
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