Troubled by the onslaught of killings of unarmed Black men, Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson wrote his Seven Last Words of the Unarmed in 2015, after finding Brooklyn-based journalist and artist Shirin Barghi’s #lastwords project on the same subject. The piece that resulted has resounded strongly in the choral world, and Musica Viva NY and the Aeolus Quartet are honored […]
The exuberant string orchestra, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), teams up with pianist Shai Wosner for “Bach Plus,” an innovative program that interweaves music by J. S. Bach with contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Brett Dean, and Michi Wiancko. Wosner’s “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered) are sure to complement ECCO’s […]
Pianist Conrad Tao, a performer of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” (New York Times), joins genre-defying brass ensemble, The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (New York Times). Individually, they perform both classics (by J. S. Bach and Brahms) and contemporary work (by Caroline Shaw), and they improvise as […]
