Featuring award-winning clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and percussionist Brian Shankar Adler, this program explores the fluid space between improvisation and composition, drawing on classical, jazz, and Syrian folk elements. Elements project features three pieces by Azmeh, including the premiere of a new piece for strings, his Suite for Improviser and Orchestra, and In The Element, originally scored for string quartet and clarinet. In The Element takes its name from the experience of a warm summer run in the rain, and speaks to broader themes of feeling in (or out) of one’s element musically and culturally. These themes are echoed in Kareem Roustom’s Dabke for String Orchestra and Brian Shankar Adler’s Rudram, based on a Vedic chant that he heard growing up in an ashram.
Program
Dabke – Kareem Roustom
Syrian Dances – Kinan Azmeh – world premiere
In The Element – Kinan Azmeh
Rudram – Brian Shankar Adler
Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra – Kinan Azmeh
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series and Twilight Music present an evening of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans by the Soggy Po’ Boys, on Sunday, October 8 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT.
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents “dirty gospel” band Reverend Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, on Saturday, October 14th at 3:00 pm at the Putney Inn.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) welcomes the public to a celebratory closing party for the exhibition “Anina Major: I Land Therefore I Am,” on Friday, October 6, during Gallery Walk.
Next Stage Arts presents Internationally renowned composer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles’s groundbreaking multimedia work “The New Immigrant Experience”, on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, in Putney, Vermont.
16th annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Sunday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m.
The Vermont Jazz Center will present Cyrus Chestnut in a trio concert on October 14th at 7:30 PM. Called “the best pianist of his generation” by Time Magazine, Chestnut will appear with bassist Herman Burney and drummer Kelton Norris.
