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Thanks to all who joined us last night for our 2nd annual Phil Kline's Unsilent Night - MKE edition at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel
A special should out goes to our grand marshal Dr. Sushi and to the UWM New Music Ensemble, made up of musicians & faculty from the Peck School of the Arts and the UWM Wind Bands, for opening the event with a beautiful performance.
Photos by Samer Ghani
Excellent job UWM New Music Ensemble! Thank you for the collab!
Phil Kline's Unsilent Night UWM Wind Bands Peck School of the Arts
Tune into WMSE 91.7FM at 10am to listen to this year's Unsilent Night Grand Marshal Dr. Sushi interview Phil Kline and Present Music artistic directors Eric Segnitz and David Bloom. Online at WMSE.org
Phil Kline's Unsilent Night
In Present Music's second annual post-modern holiday "caroling" event, we invite you to join us on an evening walk about the city with boomboxes and smart phones creating a constantly morphing sound sculpture by Phil Kline.
This FREE event will kick off at 6pm with a performance of the piece “Holiday for Reich” (Christophe Chassol) by the Peck School of the Arts UWM New Music ensemble at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel.
Complimentary drinks will be provided and then we'll take to the streets of Milwaukee, creating a shimmering soundscape.
Date/Time:
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
6:00 p.m. CT
Location:
Saint Kate - The Art Hotel
139 E Kilbourn Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
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PS: The "William Kentridge: See for Yourself" exhibit will be closing soon. This will be the final week to see or revisit 47-years of strong, thoughtful, beautiful work, unique drawings, prints, sculpture, and video. Join the visitors from 26 states 12 countries and 5 continents who came to see for themselves
The Warehouse Art Museum invites you to one last celebration of William Kentridge at their closing reception on Friday, December 16 @ 4-8pm.
Warehouse Art Museum
1635 W St Paul Ave
Milwaukee WI 53233
Phil Kline's (shown here really focusing on the 7-day forecast) Unsilent Night is now one week away!
This FREE event will kick off at 6pm with a performance of the piece “Holiday for Reich” (Christophe Chassol) by the Peck School of the Arts New Music ensemble at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel.
Complimentary drinks will be provided and then we'll take to the streets of Milwaukee, creating a shimmering soundscape (by playing provided audio on our smart phones).
For more info and to RSVP, go to: http://milwaukee.unsilentnight.com
>>> And don’t miss UNSILENT NIGHT composer Phil Kline on 91.7FM WMSE’s Free Jazz Barbecue at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Dec. 13th. The show’s host, the intrepid Dr. Sushi, will also be our grand marshal this year!
The Kentridge exhibit at the Warehouse Art Museum will be closing on Dec 16th. Make sure to catch it if you haven't already!
Thank you Professor Sheri Williams, from our UWM outreach Peck School of the Arts, for sharing these wonderful photos of South African opera singers Tshegofatso Moeng and Ann Masina leading her class for theatre students the day after they performed at Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert at Milwaukee Art Museum.
Thanks for sharing Warehouse Art Museum!!!
Thanks to CBS 58 for putting up this Throwback Thanksgiving Thursday shout out video a couple days early this week, regarding last year's concert "Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken" which premiered Raven Chacon's Pulitzer-winning performance "Voiceless Mass."
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Amanda Becker showcases the work of Present Music; the local organization recently earned a Pulitzer Prize for music for a performance last November in Milwaukee.
Check out these incredible photos, courtesy of the Shepherd Express, of our event Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert.
Wednesday night was magical and we would like to thank all of our supporters for packing the Milwaukee Art Museum as well as watching on livestream around the world!
On Wednesday evening, the Milwaukee Art Museum hosted a special event merging the visual works of artist William Kentridge with music by South African composer and longtime Kentridge collaborator Philip Miller.
We are looking forward to you joining us TONIGHT at the Milwaukee Art Museum for Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert
We just got word that this will be a sell out. Thank you for your support!
However, you can STILL join us at 7:30 CT, anywhere you are around the world*, via livestream!
LINK: https://psoatickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2020
*This performance link will be available for one week following the real time livestream event for those who purchase livestream tickets to accommodate viewing from different time zones.
Present Music was featured on the Shepherd Express. It's very much appreciated!
"Thanks to David Bloom and Eric Segnitz, Co-Artistic Directors of Present Music for helping us celebrate, “Supporting Milwaukee Arts” a weekly feature in the Shepherd Express produced by Photographer Erol Reyal that helps promote awareness, support and appreciation of the Visual and Performing Arts, Entertainment and Music scene in Milwaukee!"
Present Music innovates new concert formats, embraces a broad diversity of repertoire, and makes the music of our time accessible to audiences with deep expression and serious fun.
Thank you Urban Milwaukee for this incredibly detailed preview of Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert, taking place at the Milwaukee Art Museum Wednesday November 16th.
In-Person & Livestream tickets: presentmusic.org/events
Present Music offers unique concert of his music with guest performers from South Africa.
South African composer Philip Miller was on Milwaukee's WISN 12's Arts Avenue segment to talk about his long-time collaboration with artist William Kentridge, the currently running Kentridge exhibit at the Warehouse Art Museum, and the Present Music concert Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert being held at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Wednesday November 16th at 7:30pm.
TICKETS: presentmusic.org/events
https://www.wisn.com/article/present-musics-cine-concert/41945339
Combining art, poetry and song, Present Music's newest concert is on stage for one night only.
STING LIKE A BEE
This video revisits the very first collaboration between Philip Miller and William Kentridge, and makes a wonderful point by referencing an Emily Dickinson poem:
Fame is a bee.
It has a song-
It has a sting-
Ah too, it has a wing.
Kentridge and Miller have used the updraft of fame in such a productive way, by bringing more awareness to the world. We're honored to be presenting these works to Milwaukee next Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 7:30 pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Please visit presentmusic.org/events for ticket information.
A reminder from Present Music that our Fall Special Subscription Packages (10% off) are still available through November 16 beginning at only $126 per person!
Our Fall Special package includes 4 ticketed performances, as well as our free December event Unsilent Night.
FALL SPECIAL PREFERRED PACKAGE: https://psoatickets.universitytickets.com/w/packages/PackageDetail.aspx?PackageNewID=207
FALL SPECIAL GENERAL PACKAGE: https://psoatickets.universitytickets.com/w/packages/PackageDetail.aspx?PackageNewID=209
If you have already purchased single tickets for Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert on November 16 and would like to upgrade to the Fall Special Subscription Package, which includes the November performance, please contact the Peck School of the Arts Box Office.
(Office) 414-229-4308
(Regular Business Box Office Hours) Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 10-6pm
(Email) [email protected]
(Website) UWM | Peck School of the Arts - Ticket Office Home (universitytickets.com)
Thank you for supporting Present Music, and for helping keep new music alive in Milwaukee!
STOP MAKING SENSE
"I'm only an artist, my job is to make drawings, not to make sense." ~William Kentridge
The Kentridge Arts Festival is in full swing here in Milwaukee, with William Kentridge in town yesterday lecturing at the Milwaukee Art Museum, in support of Johannesburg’s experimental theatre troupe "Centre for the Less Good Idea", with 6 performances Nov. 8th-10th at the Broadway Theatre Center, sponsored by the Warehouse Art Museum and their current exhibit "William Kentridge: See For Yourself" (runs through Dec. 16th, FREE).
All of this is a prelude to Present Music’s Nov. 16th cine concert at MAM, featuring Kentridge animated films with the music of Philip Miller. Their decades-long collaborative process is highlighted in this video.
For more information on the concert and tickets, please visit presentmusic.org/events
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel interviewed South African composer Phillip Miller for their Kentridge Festival preview, which features Present Music's November 16th performance Miller and Kentridge: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
In-Person and Livestream🎟️: presentmusic.org/events
https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/11/04/william-kentridge-art-exhibit-warehouse-milwaukee/69593945007/
Present Music concert, plays enhance William Kentridge art exhibit at Milwaukee's Warehouse.
Boo! Happy NOMI-WEEN from Present Music.
Klaus Nomi was a German countertenor New Wave performer who stunned NYC's East Village art scene in the 70's with covers of everything from Chubby Checkers to Henry Purcell. His career was cut short by the AIDS epidemic in 1983.
In the Nomi spirit, Present Music does a live cover of one of his original songs, "The Nomi Song", set to a retro-MTV-style mash-up from Fritz Lang's 1927 silent dystopian masterpiece "Metropolis"
From the creative team of Eric Segnitz. Marty Butorac and Ross Monagle, with the spooky, disembodied voice of Klaus Nomi singing:
"If they saw my face, could I still take a bow?
Will they know me? Know me? Nomi now."
WATCH: https://vimeo.com/438654668
The Shepherd Express preview for our November 16th concert at the Milwaukee Art Museum is out. Click on the link below for the full article and ticket (In-Person & Livestream) info:
"Present Music’s second concert this season, Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass - a cine concert, is part of the Kentridge Arts Festival, the ambitious project showcasing the work of South Africa’s William Kentridge. The festival includes an exhibition of his work in many media at the Warehouse Art Museum, theater performances at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and other events, including the Present Music concert.
At that concert, four of Kentridge’s films will be screened as Present Music performs their scores by the artist’s longtime collaborator, South African composer Philip Miller. The keynote will be a world premiere by Miller written to accompany the poetry of another important contributor to the artist’s prodigious body of work, his sister Eliza Kentridge."
Featured in the performance is the work of South African artist William Kentridge and his collaborator, composer Philip Miller.
Our friends over at the Peck School of the Arts UWM Comp/Tech program are having their first event TONIGHT at 7:30pm!
Only $8. If you are a UWM student or youth under 18...it's free! They are also streaming it for free. Click on the link below for more details:
The Chicago-based Quijote Duo will perform a concert of daring new works by a diverse set of composers. The program will include premieres of works by several UWM students.
Present Music would like to send a big CONGRATULATIONS to Sky Hopinka, who was named a winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant.”
The foundation credits Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, with “developing new forms of cinema that center the perspectives of Indigenous people."
Hopinka was a guest artist at our concert "Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken" on November 21, 2021. Along with Raven Chacon winning the Pulitzer for our commission for "Voiceless Mass," that event was loaded with talent!
Combining imagery and language in films and videos that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Indigenous worldviews.
Read all about the Kentridge Arts Festival, which includes Present Music's November 16th performance: Kentridge & Miller at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
"Milwaukee is where the South African artist will begin his U.S. tour. The Kentridge Arts Festival encompasses the ongoing “See for Yourself” exhibition at the Warehouse Art Museum; performances of short plays at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; and Present Music’s “Kentridge and Miller: Flat on your back on the dry wintry grass—a cine concert” featuring Kentridge’s collaborator, South African composer Philip Miller, and Kentridge's animation."
Milwaukee is one of the few cities in the U.S. to host a festival honoring the work of the South African artist.
In January of 2022, Present Music recorded an album with composer Ryan Carter called "On A Better Filtering Algorithm." It is available now, via the Austrian KAIROS label.
You can stream it HERE:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0xpgpk4veawMfDr8tUHKtj?si=G8d67hLEQx2g2FPVh0JCKQ
A special thank you goes out to John Tanner at Tanner-Monagle, Inc. studios for making this album possible.
Thank you Relevant Tones for having Present Music's Co-Artistic Director David Bloom on your podcast today. We would also like to thank Classical Music Communications, Austin Williams and Seth Boustead. The interview starts at the 8:30 mark. Enjoy!!!
"Since its founding in Milwaukee in 1982, the mission of Present Music has been to commission and perform new concert music with programming that introduces innovative concert formats, embraces a broad diversity of repertoire, and makes the music of our time accessible to audiences with deep expression and serious fun.
Relevant Tones podcast host Austin Williams recently spoke with co-Artistic Director David Bloom about their upcoming 41st season.
The featured music includes works by Ryan Carter, Jonah Elrod, Michael Torke and Kamran Ince."
Since its founding in Milwaukee in 1982, the mission of Present Music has been to commission and perform new concert music with programming that introduces innovative concert formats, embraces a br…
Rabbit Rabbit Radio will be performing a very special intimate evening of music on October 5th at Tanner-Monagle, Studios in Milwaukee.
The band consists of singing violinist Carla Kihlstedt and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Matthias Bossi. Many of you know Carla from the recent Present Music world premiere of her song-cycle 26 Little Deaths, inspired by Edward Gorey's abcedarium, The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
There are no advance ticket sales, but space is limited, first come, first serve. Please come when doors open at 6:30 to secure your seat. $30 General Admission/$10 Students & Kids under 16.
Tanner-Monagle Studios
1120 N Market St
Milwaukee, WI 53202
The April 2012 video for Rabbit Rabbit Radio. Subscribe at www.rabbitrabbitradio.com.Music by Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi. Words extracted from Günter G...
Please join the song-spinning duo Rabbit Rabbit Radio for a very special intimate evening of music on October 5th. At the heart of this post-genre song band is singing violinist Carla Kihlstedt and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Matthias Bossi. Many of you know Carla from the recent Present Music world premiere of her song-cycle 26 Little Deaths, inspired by Edward Gorey's abcedarium, The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Carla and Matthias are long-time musical collaborators. They have visited Milwaukee before, garnering a rabid following with their experimental art-rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and with Kihlstedt's staged song cycle, Necessary Monsters. This time, they come as a duo, with their kids in tow, to serenade you at Tanner-Monagle, Inc. -- the iconic studio at which many of the Present Music albums have been recorded.
The music of Rabbit Rabbit Radio draws on their collective love of heart-wrenching balladry, art song, folk song, industrial music and improvised music. If you listen closely, you’ll hear traces of their many musical associations, but this project is their own personal challenge: a dare to peel back influence and to reveal a music that is stripped down and intimate, and all the more powerful for it. The songs of Rabbit Rabbit Radio are raw and beautiful, sparse and rich, lighthearted and full of pathos.
There are no advance ticket sales, but space is limited, first come, first serve. Please come when doors open at 6:30 to secure your seat! $30 General Admission/$10 Students & Kids under 16.
Present Music's performance "French Connection" may have come and gone but Milwaukee's French connection is just starting thanks to the Alliance Française de Milwaukee.
Classes for Fall are now in session but you can still sign up at afmilwaukee.org
While you are there, find out how you can be part of their trip to Morocco in March 2023. "Here's looking at you kid."
The Shepherd Express came out with a review of "French Connection" this week and we are so grateful!
"By the end of the program, it was clear that Present Music was just as daring, weird and ambitious as ever. Artistic directors David Bloom and Eric Segnitz surely have more memorable experiences planned for the rest of the season."
With its “French Connection” performance, PM was just as daring, weird and ambitious as ever.
We would love to give a hearty THANK YOU to all our supporters for coming to our 2022-2023 season opener "French Connection."
It was such a remarkable event and the Milwaukee Art Museum was the perfect setting. Please enjoy these photos courtesy of Alvin Connor.
We'd also like to thank our sponsors who helped us bring this performance to you: New Music USA Shepherd Express United Performing Arts Fund - UPAF Wisconsin Arts Board National Endowment for the Arts Urban Milwaukee Warehouse Art Museum Wisconsin Public Radio Alliance Française de Milwaukee WMSE 91.7FM WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
It's SHOWTIME folks!!!
TONIGHT Present Music kicks off the 2022-23 season at Milwaukee Art Museum with French Connection, featuring Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera.
Here is a peek into last night's rehearsal, just as the performers finish the first complete run-through. One thing is for sure...it takes stamina to play this music for over 90 minutes!!! We can't wait to share it with you
Also Urban Milwaukee just put out a very detailed preview of tonight's show. Check it out right here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/09/09/classical-present-music-rethinks-beauty-and-the-beast/
🎟️presentmusic.org/events
Join Present Music for a very French 🇫🇷 evening at the Milwaukee Art Museum!
* Experience Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera
* Visit the Always New Posters of Jules Chêret exhibit at MAM open exclusively for French Connection ticket holders between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm
* Mingle at the cash bar between 6:30 and 7:30 pm in Windhover Hall at MAM
* Enjoy free admission to MAM between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm with French Connection ticket purchase
* Enter our raffle at the performance and earn a chance to win a membership with MAM, membership with the French Alliance, or a gift card for the French Restaurant Pastiche
Sunday, September 11th 7:30 pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum
🎟️presentmusic.org/events
A “JACQUES” OF ALL TRADES?
A poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and celebrities’ celebrity? No, not Andy Warhol, but maybe his French antecedent.
Jean Cocteau was not just a dilettante, dabbler and dandy who courted the Bohemian elite of Paris. He was also one of the most prolific masters of the 20th Century, whose expressions in a variety of mediums reflected a frantic personal manifesto: “to escape himself, by whatever means necessary. He invents. He transfigures. He mythifies. He creates. He fancies himself an artist.”
Cocteau knew almost nothing of filmmaking when he made La Belle et La Bete at age 57. And in the wake of WWll, resources for film were scarce in France, and he had to rely mostly upon an accumulated bag-of-tricks to create this film’s uncanny aura. Even the usual ‘happily-ever-after’ became chiaroscuro illusion for him. When the Beast finally reverts to a handsome prince, the Beauty’s ambivalent response is “I’ll have to get used this…”.
Present Music screens "La Belle et la Bête" with the chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Sept. 11th at 7:30 p.m.
In conjunction with Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibition, Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret*
*In addition to their regular hours between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm, Milwaukee Art Museum will have their Jules Chêret French Poster exhibit OPEN between 6:00 and 7:30 pm the evening of our performance! Guests can visit earlier in the day for free, or visit the French poster exhibit just before the show with purchase of ticket: presentmusic.org/events
There will also be a cash bar between 6:30 and 7:30pm in Windhover Hall.
📣 September 11th is the final date for subscription packages. Get yours now!!! Presentmusic.org/events
That same evening, Present Music will be bringing you French Connection at Milwaukee Art Museum at 7:30pm.
Read all about it here: https://mailchi.mp/presentmusic/frenchconnection-subcriptions
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It's SHOWTIME folks!!! TONIGHT Present Music kicks off the 2022-23 season at Milwaukee Art Museum with French Connection, featuring Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera. Here is a peek into last night's rehearsal, just as the performers finish the first complete run-through. One thing is for sure...it takes stamina to play this music for over 90 minutes!!! We can't wait to share it with you Also Urban Milwaukee just put out a very detailed preview of tonight's show. Check it out right here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/09/09/classical-present-music-rethinks-beauty-and-the-beast/ 🎟️presentmusic.org/events
Join Present Music for a very French 🇫🇷 evening at the Milwaukee Art Museum! * Experience Jean Cocteau's iconic 1946 film La Belle et La Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast) with live music from The Philip Glass opera * Visit the Always New Posters of Jules Chêret exhibit at MAM open exclusively for French Connection ticket holders between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm * Mingle at the cash bar between 6:30 and 7:30 pm in Windhover Hall at MAM * Enjoy free admission to MAM between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm with French Connection ticket purchase * Enter our raffle at the performance and earn a chance to win a membership with MAM, membership with the French Alliance, or a gift card for the French Restaurant Pastiche Sunday, September 11th 7:30 pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum 🎟️presentmusic.org/events
Here's a Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken sneak peek sent in from the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelical by our featured composer Raven Chacon. Can you imagine how it's going to look and sound when we give the place the Present Music touch this Sunday? Don't wait, buy your tickets now and come see for yourself! Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken Sunday November 21st 🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events 🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
We've got some more behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of "Voiceless Mass" by composer Raven Chacon. Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken Sunday November 21st 🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events 🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
We've got some more behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of "Voiceless Mass" by composer Raven Chacon. Thanksgiving: Circle Unbroken Sunday November 21st 🎟️ TICKETS 🎟️ : https://www.presentmusic.org/events 🖥️ Also available to stream online November 24-28 🖥️
Here's a peek 👀 at Krists Auznieks piece "Untimed," commissioned by Present Music, which will be making it's world premiere TONIGHT at the Jan Serr Studio. Join us in person or on the livestream. Tickets are still available for both Oct 14 & 15, but limited seating is going fast! www.presentmusic.org/events
It's show day!!! 🤩 Our 40th anniversary season kicks off TONIGHT with "Keeping Time". Check out this gorgeous excerpt of "Negative Space" composed by Leila Adu, featuring Milwaukee vocalist Donna Woodall! Get the full gamut of Adu's work as well as the *world premiere* of "Untimed" by Latvian composer Krists Auznieks by joining us in-person at the Jan Serr Studio or via livestream. Tickets are still available for both Oct 14 & 15, but limited seating is going fast! www.presentmusic.org/events Thanks to ensemble member Derek Johnson for capturing the video at rehearsal.
ICYMI: The incredible Milwaukee-based movement artist Maria Gillespie 😍 is choreographing two new dance works for our season opening concerts this Thursday and Friday!! In-person and livestream tickets still available for "Keeping Time" at Jan Serr Studio: www.presentmusic.org/events Gillespie's dances, "ricochet between vulnerability and strength with razor-sharp shifts in intensity and intent." ~ LA Times "Gillespie holds back nothing, either as a performer or as a choreographer." ~ Orange County Register 👀 a preview of her dance work "Migrations of Gesture" playing below CREDITS: Choreography: Maria Gillespie Composer: Barry Paul Clark We can't wait to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Season with you so so soon!
FRIDAY! Join us for our virtual season finale concert, NEON LIFE! Many many thanks to everyone, from the musicians to the video and audio architects, to our amazing supporters that allow us to continue doing this new music making thing. 👏👏👏 CHEERS to hanging in there with us throughout this unprecedented year! We'll see you at the show... +++ $10 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-life-tickets-116647713451
🤩 JOIN US for our season finale concert this FRIDAY, June 11 at 7:30pm CDT! 🤩 From gritty to majestic, funky to eloquent, this concert has everything it takes to close out this unprecedented season in proper Present Music fashion. --- Filmed in high-definition video and audio at Turner Hall, the concert video includes four original new short films created exclusively for this concert by Tankthink, produced by the ever creative Wes Tank. Featured composers include: Aviya Kopelman (whose piece, Neon Lights, is featured below), David Lang, Daniel Kidane, Tansy Davies, Henry Threadgill and Louis Andriessen. --- JOIN US! Tickets start at just $10: www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-life-tickets-116647713451
Present Music is Milwaukee’s internationally acclaimed new music ensemble. Celebrating 38 years of new music, Present Music commissions, performs, records and tours the music of living composers. In the past quarter century, more than 65 new works, by composers from around the world, have come into existence because of Present Music. PM works closely with many of the world’s most exciting and significant composers while supporting the talents of emerging voices. It nurtures the next generation of composers through its education program, the Creation Project.
Present Music is a member of the United Performing Arts Fund, which provides major financial support. This season is supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by CAMPAC and by the generosity of foundations, corporations, and individuals. PM has won the ASCAP/Chamber Music America’s Adventurous Programming Award an unprecedented six times and can be heard on nine compact disc recordings on the Argo, Albany, Aoede, Northeastern, Naxos, and Innova labels. Present Music engages artists and audiences in imaginative and provocative experiences with new music through ensemble performance, education, and commissioning.
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