The 21st Century Consort, award-winning contemporary music
ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for three decades,
embarks on its sixth season at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nan
Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Artistic Director Christopher Kendall
presents a season of new music and high drama. On April 20: Music that moves from the dark of night to the dancing light
of dawn, in a program calculated for challenge and choreographed to
move. George Crumb’s staged, classic NIGHT OF THE FOUR MOONS - an environmental manifesto (protesting
human incursion into the moon’s ecosystem of myth) is companion to
dance music from a variety of composers’ for the dance of our
imaginations, including the music of Derek Bermel (Mulatash Stomp), David Froom's To Dance to the Whistling Wind, featuring flutist Aaron Goldman, Donald Crockett's Dawn Dance (premiere), and others. 4pm discussion with the composers precedes the concert - Tickets $20 also include a post-concert reception.
