I am greatly looking forward to our first day of Music TRaC this Thursday, March 20th. We'll meet every week from 4:30 to 6:30 (don't be late!) at the Jacob Blaustein Building at 165 East 56th Street on the corner of 3rd Avenue. **You are required to bring Photo ID.** (Please note: we are not always in the same room. Ask the guard behind the glass what room to be sure.) Take the 4, 5 or 6 train to 59th street and walk south down to 56th on Lexington and make a left. OR take the E, V, or 6 train to 51st street and walk north.
If you get lost, contact Eric at High 5: 212-750-0555 ext.208 or ext. 200 (if there's no answer at 208) Print out this post or write this down!
Also important:
Brecht Forum at 9 pm (451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune) Subway: A, C, E, L, 1, 2, 3, 9 to 14th Street brechtforum.org)
Joëlle Léandre
World Premiere / Brecht Forum Commission
Joëlle Léandre with Mat Maneri (viola) & J.D. Parran (woodwinds)
Opening Set with Poet Steve Dalachinsky
French double bass player, improviser and composer Joëlle Léandre is one of the dominant figures of the new European music. Trained in orchestral as well as contemporary music, she has played with Itinéraire, 2e2m and Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain. Léandre has also worked with Merce Cunningham and with John Cage, who has composed especially for her — as have Scelsi, Fénelon, Jolas and Clémenti. As well as working in contemporary music, Léandre has played with some of the great names in jazz and improvisation, such as Derek Beley, Anthony Braxton, Georges Lewis, Evan Parker, Irène Schweizer, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith and John Zorn. She has written extensively for dance and theatre, and has staged a number of multidisciplinary performances. Her reputation is international, and her work as a composer and a performer, both in solo recitals and as part of ensembles, has put her under the lights of the most prestigious stages of Europe, the Americas and Asia. Joëlle Léandre also has more than a hundred recordings to her credit. She was Visiting Professor at Mills College in 2002/2004 and 2006 (Darius Milhaud Chair for composition and improvisation).
See you Thursday!
your intrepid instructor,
Andrey
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