NEC Contemporary Musical Arts: Opening Night!
NEC kicks off the year with a live concert featuring faculty of the Contemporary Musical Arts department, with music from many international traditions as well as Jazz, Avant Garde, new works, and a whole lot more.
Ran Blake | Horace is Blue
Artists- Ran Blake, piano
Traditional Mali | To be announced from the stage
Artists- Balla Kouyaté, balafon, voice
Dave Zoffer | Youngblood
Artists- Dave Zoffer, keyboards, bass, vocals
- Farayi Malek, vocals
- Mark Zaleski, alto saxophone
Traditional, Jaipur-Atrauli school | Dhoonda bara saiyan
khyal in Raga Nand
Artists- Warren Senders, voice, tamboura
Lautaro Mantilla | A Show of Hands
A Show of Hands is a piece from a larger project entitled Memoria/Olvido which is a series of soundscapes based on studies on the relationship between time, space, light, and perspective with memory. This particular piece reflects on the tension between expectations and reality and the alterations in the way one remembers events from their childhood.
Artists- Lautaro Mantilla, guitar
Udi Hrant Kenkulyan/ Anonymous | Hicaz Şarkı: Hastayım Yaşıyorum/Çeçen Kızı
Artists- Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, oud, voice
- Mal Barsamian, clarinet
Harry Warren, Al Dubin | Summer Night
Artists- Mark Zaleski, alto saxophone
- Bert Seager, piano
Traditional Persian
Artists- Nima Janmohammadi, kamancheh
Traditional American | The Blackest Crow
Artists- Eden MacAdam-Somer, voice, violin
Traditional Belarus | Swerdlow Freylekhs
As taught to Hankus Netsky by his Uncle Sam, who learned it from Meyer Swerdlow
Artists- Mal Barsamian, clarinet
- Hankus Netsky, saxophone
- Mark Zaleski, saxophone
- Eden MacAdam-Somer, fiddle
- Nima Janmohammadi, gheychack
- Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, oud, voice
- Akram Haddad, piano
- Austin McMahon, drums