eugene lang college the new school for liberal arts
announces either/or ensemble as visiting artists
Guest Appearance by Renowned Composer Chaya Czernowin
Either/Or Ensemble to Perform at the Tenri Cultural Institute
On February 25-26 and March 26-27
New York, February 11, 2010—Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts has announced that the Either/Or Ensemble will be the Spring 2010 Visiting Artists in Music, presenting a series of concerts and open rehearsals in February and March. Lang’s Visiting Artist program recognizes music as an art form that reflects larger political, technological, and philosophical concerns, centering the study of music within the practices of social and cultural inquiry and The New School’s traditions of artistic experimentation. It also affords students the opportunity to watch and learn from some of the most creative performers and composers at work today.
Either/Or is a leading New York-based new music ensemble performing works by emerging composers as well as classics of the avant-garde and experimental music traditions. “An ensemble that plays by its own rules,” writes New York Times critic Allan Kozinn. “This is a world where pure sound and texture are of greater interest than form and syntax ... Works in the Either/Or repertory are just as likely to be governed by game theory as by standard notions of musical structure.”
In February cutting-edge Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin will join Either/Or for a concert devoted to her music. Czernowin’s compositions have been performed at more than 40 festivals throughout the world, from the U.K. and Austria to Mexico and Australia. She has taught at the University of California-San Diego and at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, and she was recently appointed Professor of Music at Harvard University. Czernowin has been the director of the International Summer Academy for young Composers in Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart since 2003. She is best known for her two innovative operas, Pnima...ins innere (2000) and Zaïde/Adama (2006).
"The Visiting Artist program at Lang is an integral part of our Arts curriculum, which gives a social and intellectual context to the art undergraduates are studying and the role collaboration plays in its creation," said Stefania deKenessey, Chair of the Arts at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Previous Visiting Artists in Music have included Marni Nixon in 2007 and Ann Ellsworth of the Manhattan Brass Quintet in 2005.
Performance Schedule
Please note: All events will be free for New School faculty, students, and staff.
February:
The open rehearsal on Friday, February 19 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Jazz Performance Space, 5th floor, 55 West 13th St.
Open rehearsal on Thursday, February 25 from 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, 5th floor, 65 West 11th St.
Presentation by the composer on Thursday, February 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St. between 5th and 6th Ave.
For further information please visit: http://www.tenri.org/general/events.shtml
Concert on Friday, February 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St. between 5th and 6th Ave.
Either/Or performs Czernowin's Ina (1988), Anea Crystal (2008), Dam sheon hachol (1992), and Die Kreuzung (1995)
For further information please visit: http://www.tenri.org/general/events.shtml
March:
Friday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Either/Or will presents newly-commissioned works
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St. between 5th and 6th Ave.
For further information please visit: http://www.tenri.org/general/events.shtml
Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m.
Either/Or will presents newly-commissioned works
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St. between 5th and 6th Ave.
For further information please visit: http://www.tenri.org/general/events.shtml
ABOUT EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
With a diversity of students, faculty, and academics, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is a seminar-style liberal arts college located in New York City that was established in 1985. Remaining faithful to its founding philosophy, Eugene Lang College grew out of a highly progressive freshman-year program developed at The New School in 1973. Lang offers intensive liberal arts study as well as a faculty committed to teaching undergraduates in an interdisciplinary context. Majors include culture and media, literary studies, the arts, philosophy, interdisciplinary science, psychology, economics, environmental studies, and philosophy. Areas of study include religious studies, urban studies, social inquiry, and education studies. For more information, visit www.lang.newschool.edu.
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