Modernworks
Music Performance
The innovative music ensemble, ModernWorks, featuring ensemble director Madeline Shapiro (cello), Bill Schimmel (accordion) and Airi Yoshioka (violin) performs a program entitled "Strange Acquaintances" for an evening of contemporary music. ModernWorks consists of a core of some of New York City's most prominent performers of new music. The ensemble is a member of The New York Consortium for New Music and has appeared in New York on Sonic Boom 6, 8, 9, the festival's 10th anniversary marathon at The Knitting Factory, and Sonic Boom 11, also at the Knitting Factory. "Strange Acquaintances" will consist of:
- Stille Szenne, 1991, Wolfgang Rihm
- Apparitions, 2006, Phillipe Hersant
- Spiral Jetty, 2006, Anthony Cornicello
- Grito del Corazon, 2005, Judith Shatin
- Silenzio, 1991, Sofina Gubaidulina