Richard Eyre’s NS+ Concert:
Nico Muhly, Alicia Hall Moran, and Magos Herrera + Gyan Riley
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NS+ CONCERT
Hosted & curated by Richard Eyre
With Nico Muhly
Alicia Hall Moran + Brandon Ross
Magos Herrera + Gyan Riley
Distinguished director Richard Eyre hosts the second National Sawdust+ concert on Friday, January 22 at 7pm. The wonderfully eclectic program, curated by the award-winning British auteur, will explore his musical passions, from classical to contemporary to flamenco-influenced jazz. Vocalists include mezzo Alicia Hall Moran with musicians including guitarist Brandon Ross, performing music from spirituals to Gershwin to Dowland (which she has crossed with a little Smokey Robinson), and Mexican singer-songwriter Magos Herrera, who brings her sultry voice to songs ranging from Latin American folk music to her new setting of a Rubén Darío poem, performed with guitarist Gyan Riley. Eyre has tapped Nico Muhly to play a few of his solo piano pieces as well as works by Philip Glass. Eyre, whose music credits range from Mary Poppins to Carmen, is in town to direct the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Manon Lescaut. National Sawdust+, featuring guest-programmed concerts and surprising talks curated by Elena Park, launched last fall with Julie Taymor’s Made in Brooklyn program as well as conversations with Terry Riley + Francois Girard and Jad Abumrad + Caroline Shaw.
National Sawdust+ is supported in part by a generous grant from the Kaplen Brothers Fund.
Other NS+ events
NS+ Talks: Terry Riley & François Girard
The legendary composer and the distinguished director of opera, film, and theater – long-time fans of each other’s work – launch National Sawdust+ Talks on Sunday, October 4 at 5pm during the venue’s inaugural week of programming. Riley sits down for an intimate, hour-long conversation with Girard (The Red Violin, Silk, the Metropolitan Opera’s recent Parsifal) as part of National Sawdust’s Terry Riley 80th birthday celebration from October 3-5.
NS+ Talks: Jad Abumrad & Caroline Shaw
This pair of highly curious minds – “co-host of the on-air amazingness that is RadioLab” (Wired) and the inventive, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and performer – explore little corners of mutual interest that often play out in their enlivening, distinctive work. During this hour-long conversation, wormhole topics could possibly include the sound of speaking, the vowel, pacing – and perhaps how they each approach the creation of music.
