Downtown Ensemble to perform works by Carla Bley and John Cage on Wed. June 30th

Wed - June 30, 2010, 8:00 pm

 

Downtown Ensemble to perform works by Carla Bley and John Cage on Wed. June 30th

At Greenwich House, 46 Barrow St., the DownTown Ensemble will
perform improvisatory works by the noted jazz composer Carla Bley. The
work will be realized in the improvisational approach developed during the
heyday of downtown new music going on in SoHo in the 70s into the 80s. The
DownTown Ensemble is one of the last surviving performing groups associated
with the musical styles that emerged around loft concerts at legendary spaces
such as The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, The Alternative Museum, The
Clocktower, etc. The featured performers will be Daniel Goode, Larry
Polansky
, and Peter Zummo.

The program will also feature John
Cage
’s Indeterminacy performed by William Hellermann,
narrator, and Joseph Kubera, pianist. Though Indeterminacy is one
of John Cage’s best known pieces, it was rarely performed live, and when it was
it was always performed by John Cage and David Tudor, pianist. The DownTown
Ensemble has chosen to give this performance to see how well the piece serves
as more than a performance vehicle for Cage and his unique voice, but as a
composition available for performance by other musicians.

Wed. June 30 8pm, $15/$10   Renee Weiler
Auditorium, Greenwich House, 46 Barrow St. NYC