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Paul Dresher Double Duo with Guest Artist TwoSense: Lisa Moore and Ashley Bathgate
On October 26, at 8:00pm, Paul Dresher Double Duo makes its east coast debut at Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn). The concert features guest artist TwoSense: the acclaimed duo pianist Lisa Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate.
Paul Dresher Double Duo is made up of a pair of conventional chamber instruments (played by pianist Lisa Moore and violinist Karen Bentley Pollick), and a pair of newly invented instruments: the Marimba Lumina - an electronic mallet controller played by percussionist Joel Davel and the Quadrachord - a 15-foot long four-stringed instrument invented and played by Paul Dresher that is plucked, bowed, hammered and strummed.
The program features John Cage's 1950 classic Six Melodies and Martin Bresnick's Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon, a wild mash-up of Brahms and blues inspired by a 1960's counter-culture experience. Also on the program, the world premiere of Family Matters written by Paul Dresher for TwoSense; and the New York premiere of Glimpsed From Afar, for quadrachord and marimba lumina, also by Dresher.
Tickets are $20 (General Admission), $15 for Members/Students/Seniors and $10 for Series Members (free for All Access Members) and can be purchased at Roulette.org.
Composer Paul Dresher is founder of The Paul Dresher Ensemble, one of the foremost contemporary ensembles in the country. The Paul Dresher Ensemble has built a towering reputation over two decades by commissioning and performing new works of experimental opera and music theater and contemporary chamber music, and collaborating with groundbreaking theater and dance companies and other disciplines around the United States.
Dresher is an internationally renowned composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and unique personal style. He "exemplifies the spirit of West Coast music both in the richness of his sound world as well as the inventiveness of his mind," says composer John Adams.
For more information and tickets, visit Roulette.org
Paul Dresher Double Duo is made up of a pair of conventional chamber instruments (played by pianist Lisa Moore and violinist Karen Bentley Pollick), and a pair of newly invented instruments: the Marimba Lumina - an electronic mallet controller played by percussionist Joel Davel and the Quadrachord - a 15-foot long four-stringed instrument invented and played by Paul Dresher that is plucked, bowed, hammered and strummed.
The program features John Cage's 1950 classic Six Melodies and Martin Bresnick's Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon, a wild mash-up of Brahms and blues inspired by a 1960's counter-culture experience. Also on the program, the world premiere of Family Matters written by Paul Dresher for TwoSense; and the New York premiere of Glimpsed From Afar, for quadrachord and marimba lumina, also by Dresher.
Tickets are $20 (General Admission), $15 for Members/Students/Seniors and $10 for Series Members (free for All Access Members) and can be purchased at Roulette.org.
Composer Paul Dresher is founder of The Paul Dresher Ensemble, one of the foremost contemporary ensembles in the country. The Paul Dresher Ensemble has built a towering reputation over two decades by commissioning and performing new works of experimental opera and music theater and contemporary chamber music, and collaborating with groundbreaking theater and dance companies and other disciplines around the United States.
Dresher is an internationally renowned composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and unique personal style. He "exemplifies the spirit of West Coast music both in the richness of his sound world as well as the inventiveness of his mind," says composer John Adams.
For more information and tickets, visit Roulette.org
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