Anyway, here it is, chamber music for the artistically peripatetic and morally suspect. Out of the sweaty confines of Greenwich House,
free from the unblinking eye of the maintenance guy at CAMI Hall, into
comfortably louche quarters off the Square. As always, a mere $9.99. Now
cheaper than the movies!
Sure, we don't have stadium seating, but can you get hard liquor and
Ambience-with-a-capital "A" at the AMC 21? Can you get music that would
normally accompany an autistic dwarf's nightmares at AMC 21? (Wow, can you
get more tasteless?) Can you get a drunk and ranting Oklahoman at AMC 21?
Actually, you know the answer is yes, which reminds me, don't miss the
afterparty at a sleazy T.S. bar to be named later. Plus: Art by Miss
Lasko-Gross, who's got a comic book called AIM, and has been featured in
Screw magazine and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Featuring the world premieres of:
Peter Hess - Peccata Mundi, a Latin mass (almost) for trumpet,
electric air organ, bass drum and soprano
Andrea La Rose - Seven Ways To Sunday for various instrumentation
Daniel Lasaga - Apparitions of the Industrial Wasteland for flute,
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, double bass
Pat Muchmore - PortRaitS_4&five,**NYC'04 for cello and live electronics
Franz Nicolay - Too Damn Clever for piano
Eric Shanfield - After the Quake for 3 players and a cartload of woodwinds
Ken Thomson - Song for two violins and two voices
John Wriggle - Sectional (The Embedded Saxophone) for saxophone quartet
Cast of characters:
Tim Byrnes * Hubert Chen * Paul Chuffo * Jean Cook * Peter Hess * Jeff Hudgins * Amy Kohn * Andrea La Rose * Pat Muchmore * Evan Rapport * Eric Rockwin * Philippa Thompson * Ken Thomson * Amelia Watkins * Dan Neustadt
"They're bringing not punk rock but punk orchestra to the people." - NYPress
"Cutting-edge cultural production." - WNYC
"Scrappy composers' collective" - Time Out NY