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May 1, 2010
2:54pm
vigeland’s influence
This tuesday, Red Light New Music will present a concert at Symphony Space - Nils Vigeland at 60. i’m really looking forward to this show, partially because it will feel good to tributize a teacher that means a lot to a lot of people, but also because it will be a really fitting 5th anniversary celebration for Red Light.
Nils Vigeland is a legend at MSM; an impassioned advocated of composers and new music in general, new ideas, experimentation, thoughtful musical analysis, and overall joy in musical creation. he’s a brilliant lecturer and nearly every student at that school, composer or non-, would list him as a favorite teacher. a true provocateur, he is committed to challenging any and all assumptions you may bring to the table. i encountered his a baby fresh out of high school, and he was my teacher for three years. i owe him a lot. he taught me how to have a conscience in music; he kept me true.
Red Light was founded by Vigeland students - Vincent Raikhel and Scott Wollschleger - as a venue outside of school, for their music and the music they found to be original and compelling. We’ve taken on two co-directors, also devoted Vigeland students, Chris Cerrone and Liam Robinson. Most of the first performers in the Red Light Ensemble were some of the most enthusiastic participants in Vigeland’s contemporary music community at MSM - people like cellist Jody Redhage, pianist David Hanlon, clarinettest Eileen Mack, and the excellent violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, who has since become a doctoral student at UCSD but will be returning to New York to perform Vigeland’s duet Reading at Tuesday’s concert. In the last five years, we have grown from presenting small concerts at community churches to playing larger venues, like the Kennedy Center last year, and now Symphony Space. It’s really exciting to be a part of such successful growth, but also incredible to see how that growth has been accompanied by a real sense of community. It’s not an accident that Vigeland’s fingerprints are all over the founding of this group, and that five years later it’s still being guided by a sense that we are in it for the right reasons.
Tuesday’s show will be moving, I’m sure. As a tribute to Vigeland’s own compositional influences, the subtle and extremely talented Yegor Shevstov will play with Morton Feldman’s Piano Four Hands with Vigeland, and the Ensemble will play four arrangements of Ives songs by the Red Light composer/directors. Of Vigeland’s own music, along with Reading, will be programmed his Ives Music I (a piano trio), and the world premiere of a fiercely difficult and richly layered new piece written for us, keep it [red] light, which I’ll be conducting.
Finally, I’d like to note that Red Light has compiled, edited, and published 116-page book of articles, analysis, music, interviews and pictures entitled Nils Vigeland: Original Tradition, that will be unvieled and sold at the concert. Along with so many of my compatriots - and with folks I’ve never met - I’ve contributed to this book… but I’ve also seen the prototype, and it looks beautiful.
I hope to see you guys there.
Red Light New Music Presents: Nils Vigeland at 60
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Symphony Space: Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
2537 Broadway (at 93rd street)
tickets: $15 ($10 for students) BUY THEM HERE
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May 1, 2010
2:54pm
vigeland’s influence
This tuesday, Red Light New Music will present a concert at Symphony Space - Nils Vigeland at 60. i’m really looking forward to this show, partially because it will feel good to tributize a teacher that means a lot to a lot of people, but also because it will be a really fitting 5th anniversary celebration for Red Light.
Nils Vigeland is a legend at MSM; an impassioned advocated of composers and new music in general, new ideas, experimentation, thoughtful musical analysis, and overall joy in musical creation. he’s a brilliant lecturer and nearly every student at that school, composer or non-, would list him as a favorite teacher. a true provocateur, he is committed to challenging any and all assumptions you may bring to the table. i encountered his a baby fresh out of high school, and he was my teacher for three years. i owe him a lot. he taught me how to have a conscience in music; he kept me true.
Red Light was founded by Vigeland students - Vincent Raikhel and Scott Wollschleger - as a venue outside of school, for their music and the music they found to be original and compelling. We’ve taken on two co-directors, also devoted Vigeland students, Chris Cerrone and Liam Robinson. Most of the first performers in the Red Light Ensemble were some of the most enthusiastic participants in Vigeland’s contemporary music community at MSM - people like cellist Jody Redhage, pianist David Hanlon, clarinettest Eileen Mack, and the excellent violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, who has since become a doctoral student at UCSD but will be returning to New York to perform Vigeland’s duet Reading at Tuesday’s concert. In the last five years, we have grown from presenting small concerts at community churches to playing larger venues, like the Kennedy Center last year, and now Symphony Space. It’s really exciting to be a part of such successful growth, but also incredible to see how that growth has been accompanied by a real sense of community. It’s not an accident that Vigeland’s fingerprints are all over the founding of this group, and that five years later it’s still being guided by a sense that we are in it for the right reasons.
Tuesday’s show will be moving, I’m sure. As a tribute to Vigeland’s own compositional influences, the subtle and extremely talented Yegor Shevstov will play with Morton Feldman’s Piano Four Hands with Vigeland, and the Ensemble will play four arrangements of Ives songs by the Red Light composer/directors. Of Vigeland’s own music, along with Reading, will be programmed his Ives Music I (a piano trio), and the world premiere of a fiercely difficult and richly layered new piece written for us, keep it [red] light, which I’ll be conducting.
Finally, I’d like to note that Red Light has compiled, edited, and published 116-page book of articles, analysis, music, interviews and pictures entitled Nils Vigeland: Original Tradition, that will be unvieled and sold at the concert. Along with so many of my compatriots - and with folks I’ve never met - I’ve contributed to this book… but I’ve also seen the prototype, and it looks beautiful.
I hope to see you guys there.
Red Light New Music Presents: Nils Vigeland at 60
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Symphony Space: Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
2537 Broadway (at 93rd street)
tickets: $15 ($10 for students) BUY THEM HERE
blog comments powered by Disqus
Page 1 of 1
vigeland’s influence
This tuesday, Red Light New Music will present a concert at Symphony Space - Nils Vigeland at 60. i’m really looking forward to this show, partially because it will feel good to tributize a teacher that means a lot to a lot of people, but also because it will be a really fitting 5th anniversary celebration for Red Light.
Nils Vigeland is a legend at MSM; an impassioned advocated of composers and new music in general, new ideas, experimentation, thoughtful musical analysis, and overall joy in musical creation. he’s a brilliant lecturer and nearly every student at that school, composer or non-, would list him as a favorite teacher. a true provocateur, he is committed to challenging any and all assumptions you may bring to the table. i encountered his a baby fresh out of high school, and he was my teacher for three years. i owe him a lot. he taught me how to have a conscience in music; he kept me true.
Red Light was founded by Vigeland students - Vincent Raikhel and Scott Wollschleger - as a venue outside of school, for their music and the music they found to be original and compelling. We’ve taken on two co-directors, also devoted Vigeland students, Chris Cerrone and Liam Robinson. Most of the first performers in the Red Light Ensemble were some of the most enthusiastic participants in Vigeland’s contemporary music community at MSM - people like cellist Jody Redhage, pianist David Hanlon, clarinettest Eileen Mack, and the excellent violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, who has since become a doctoral student at UCSD but will be returning to New York to perform Vigeland’s duet Reading at Tuesday’s concert. In the last five years, we have grown from presenting small concerts at community churches to playing larger venues, like the Kennedy Center last year, and now Symphony Space. It’s really exciting to be a part of such successful growth, but also incredible to see how that growth has been accompanied by a real sense of community. It’s not an accident that Vigeland’s fingerprints are all over the founding of this group, and that five years later it’s still being guided by a sense that we are in it for the right reasons.
Tuesday’s show will be moving, I’m sure. As a tribute to Vigeland’s own compositional influences, the subtle and extremely talented Yegor Shevstov will play with Morton Feldman’s Piano Four Hands with Vigeland, and the Ensemble will play four arrangements of Ives songs by the Red Light composer/directors. Of Vigeland’s own music, along with Reading, will be programmed his Ives Music I (a piano trio), and the world premiere of a fiercely difficult and richly layered new piece written for us, keep it [red] light, which I’ll be conducting.
Finally, I’d like to note that Red Light has compiled, edited, and published 116-page book of articles, analysis, music, interviews and pictures entitled Nils Vigeland: Original Tradition, that will be unvieled and sold at the concert. Along with so many of my compatriots - and with folks I’ve never met - I’ve contributed to this book… but I’ve also seen the prototype, and it looks beautiful.
I hope to see you guys there.
Red Light New Music Presents: Nils Vigeland at 60
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Symphony Space: Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
2537 Broadway (at 93rd street)
tickets: $15 ($10 for students) BUY THEM HERE
