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About the Show
Music by Daniel Felsenfeld, Jonathan Newman, Paola Prestini, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Julian Wachner
Conducted by Julian Wachner
Performed by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY
For this special Sunday evening engagement, the renowned Choir of Trinity Wall Street and its companion chamber ensemble NOVUS NY are led by conductor Julian Wachner in an evening of contemporary Mass music.
The program will consist of previews of five new musical works in advance of their world premiere Jan 12 at Trinity Church Wall Street. Excerpted music by composers Daniel Felsenfeld, Jonathan Newman, Paola Prestini, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Julian Wachner will be augmented by talks with librettists Brenda Shaughnessy and Royce Vavrek.
Other Winter Highlights
Ferus Festival: The Afield / Nelson Patton with Lonnie Holley
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Ferus Festival: Sxip Shirey’s A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees
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The Passionate Pilgrim Deluxe
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Prototype Presents: Funeral Doom Spiritual
January 13, 2017 - 7:00pm Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.”
Bridging the Gap V
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Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show
March 3, 2017 - 10:00pm This being the first edition of Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show, we begin in the bubble of comfort of our own little room – so nice to come home to – only to find certain outside influences more pernicious and pugnacious than one might have envisioned. The demons of disingenuity are swarming about, filling the void with fallacious authenticity and threatening our exceptionalist contentment. Following a story-esque through-line presented in songful vignettes and other musical vehicles, some of the city’s most talented performers and cultural barometers inhabit National Sawdust, offering uplift in this downful time.
Lost Spring
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Bridging the Gap II
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