New Music New College brings back some favorite programs for new season
New Music New College launches a new season Saturday night, as it transforms the school’s Sudakoff Center into a nightclub for a performance by the New Jersey-based percussion quartet Recap.
Arlene Acevedo, Alexis Carter, Tiahna Sterling and Aline Vasquez from Rahway, New Jersey are recent graduates of Mantra Youth Percussion, a free-tuition teenage ensemble of Mantra Percussion, Inc. The quartet members worked together for several years in the program with a variety music creators and have performed nationally.
The group released its first album “Count to Five” on Innova Recordings a year ago, featuring music by such contemporary composers as Angélica Negrón (a recent winner of the Hermitage Greenfield Prize), Allison Loggins-Hull, Ellen Reid, Lesley Flanigan, Mary Kouyoumdjian and Caroline Shaw.
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The program launches a five-season series for the New College program, which was put together by its interim artistic director and longtime producer Ron Silver.
The November 19 program “Inside in C,” presented in the school’s Pepsico Arcade, features Terry Riley’s “In C,” performed by musicians surrounding the audience in the outdoor area to bring the audience into the music.
On Jan. 14 in Mildred Sainer Pavilion, the program brings back pianist Kathleen Supové, who has performed several times in Sarasota. She presents her concert program “Next Door.” Supové works to break down the walls between the performer and the audience.
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Another reprise is “It’s Alive: A Monstrous Circus on ‘Frankenstein’” to be presented in Koski Plaza on March. 4. The program was last presented in 2018 to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel. The concert is presented as a mash-up of the novel with John Cage’s “Circus On,” which offers instructions for turning any text into a performance. Performers will be making noises from balconies and around the plaza.
The final program, April 29, will feature the return of Pamela Z, a composer/performer and media artist. She will present a program of solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers and interactive video.
All performances run about an hour and start at 8 p.m. At 5 p.m. on the Thursday before each concert, there will be an artist conversation that is free to the public. And this year all, the programs and the conversations will be live-streamed on YouTube, with links available on the newmusicnewcollege.org website.
Tickets for each concert are $15, and free for students, faculty and staff. For more details: newmusicnewcollege.org
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