Winnipeg New Music Festival

Date: Sunday, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:30pm
Performers: Meredith Monk, voice & piano
Katie Geissinger, voice
Allison Sniffin, voice & piano
Bohdan Hilash, winds
Location: Centennial Concert Hall
Address: 555 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

About

The World of Meredith Monk

“(Meredith Monk) harks back to a time before disciplines existed and categories were set in stone” Alex Ross has written. MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner, National Medal of Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships recipient, Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, Musical America’s Composer of the Year, Grammy nominated and ECM New Series recording artist Meredith Monk and members of her Ensemble will perform music from throughout her incredible and multifaceted career.

WORKS

All Meredith Monk Program
I. MUSIC FOR UNACCOMPANIED VOICE
Selections from Juice (1969), Songs from the Hill (1977), and Light Songs (1988)
II. MUSIC FOR VOICE AND PIANO
Gotham Lullaby (1975)
Travelling (1973)
Madwoman’s Vision (1988)
Choosing Companions from ATLAS: an opera in three parts (1991)
Hips Dance, from Volcano Songs: Duets (1993)
Hocket, from Facing North (1990)
Prayer I, from The Politics of Quiet (1996)
Scared Song (1986) CANADIAN PREMIERE
III. MUSIC FOR VOICE, KEYBOARD AND WOODWINDS
epilogue and woman at the door, from Mercy (2001) CANADIAN PREMIERE
clusters 3, from Songs of Ascension (2008) CANADIAN PREMIERE
Panda Chant I and Memory Song, from The Games (1984)CANADIAN PREMIERE
masks, from mercy (2001)
between song, from impermanence (2004/2006)