Praise Pecola!
Tango by Richard Brooks
Reading Nafisi by Laura Kaminsky
The Banned by Tamar Muskal
To Whom the Shoe Fits by Kaija Saariaho, In Memoriam
Radical Kinship Concert - Winter 2022
Reparations NOW!
In Memory of Muhiyidin d’Baha
Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity
Ensemble Pi 13th Annual Concert For Peace Black Lives Matters
Concert Review at I Care If You Listen
10th Annual Peace Concert
Word Interpretations: The Ninth Annual Peace Concert
Program:
Ensemble Pi explores the relationship of language, truth and politics with a concert featuring two premieres by Susan Botti and Laura Kaminsky, in addition to music by Jason Eckardt, Bryant Kong, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Laura Kaminsky Deception (2014, Premiere) A commission for piano, cello, clarinet, violin Susan Botti J'ai Tant Rêvé de Toi (2014, Premiere) A commission for voice and piano trio Jason Eckardt Rendition (2006) For clarinet and piano Bryant Kong The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld (2004) For piano and voice Dmitri Shostakovich Seven Romances on the Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127 (1967) For voice and piano trio Krzysztof Penderecki Sonata for Violin and Piano (1953)
Performers
Idith Meshulam, piano; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Katie Schlaikjer, cello; Moran Katz, clarinet; Kristin Norderval, voice; with guest artist Rachel Rosales, voice.
Replay - The Eighth Annual Concert for Peace
What Must Be Said - the 7th Annual Peace Concert
at The Cell Theatre December 9, 2012
Listen to Krzysztof Penderecki recorded at Symphony Space
Live from Symphony Space's Thalia Theater on October 25, 2013
Listen: Krzysztof Penderecki at Symphony Space
Program Details:
Cadenza (Matthew Lipman, viola) String Quartet No. 3. "Leaves from an Unwritten Diary" (Penderecki Quartet) Capriccio (Jay Campbell, cello) Quartet for clarinet and strings (Eric Anderson, clarinet; Nathan Lesser, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Alan Okhubo, cello) Sextette (Ensemble Pi: Moran Katz, clarinet; Karl Kramer, horn; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Ah Ling Neu, viola; Katie Schlaikjer, cello; Idith Meshulam, piano)
SELECTED AUDIO
Frederic Rzewski: Whangdoodles (1990) for piano, violin and hammered dulcimer (live performance at Cooper Union, 2010)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Dancer on a Tight Rope (1993) for violin and Piano (live performance at Cooper Union, 2010)
Benjamin Britten: Canticle III (1945) for piano french horn and tenor (live performance at Cooper Union, 2009)
Krzysztof Penderecki: sextet
George Crumb Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (1971) live recording at Cooper Union 2011
John Harbison Abu Ghraib for piano and cello (2006) live performance at Cooper Union 2008
Gunther Schuller On Light Wings Performed at Symphony Space Feb 2014
Laura Kaminsky Vukovar Trio (1999) performed at Tenri Cultural Institute violin, cello, piano February 2010
Karim Al-Zand Swimmy (2010) commissioned by Ensemble Pi narrator, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet March 2010
Philip Miller Can you Hear That, Movement 1 and Movement 2 (2009) commissioned by Ensemble Pi performed at the Cooper Union violin, viola, cello, clarinet, piano, soprano, tenor March 2009
Elias Tanenbaum Changing Times (1993) performed at the Chelsea Art Museum violin, cello, piano December 2008
Elias Tanenbaum Keep Going, by George (1982) piano, bass, percussion, violin and voice October 2008
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano trio No 2 in Em Op 67 Mvt III (1944) Piano, violin, cello March 2007
Lou Harrison Varied trio I (1987) Piano, violin, percussion October, 2008
Kristin Norderval Elegy: for Gaza (2009) Voice, accordion, trombone, violin, tape March 2009
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