Beth Morrison Projects presents BMP: SONGBOOK, a live performance and multi-faceted celebration marking two decades of trailblazing innovation in American opera. Over two unforgettable evenings, BMP: SONGBOOK brings together extraordinary artists who helped shape BMP’s legacy, performing highlights from some of our most iconic productions.

Beth Morrison Projects presents BMP: SONGBOOK, a two-night live performance event celebrating twenty years of groundbreaking innovation in American opera. This milestone production brings together the extraordinary artists who have defined BMP’s legacy, performing unforgettable selections from some of the company’s most iconic works.

For the fourth year in a row, on January 10, Winter Jazzfest’s signature Marathon heads to Brooklyn for its second night; a night of expansive sounds spread across Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl, Superior Ingredients, Loove Labs Annex, Baby’s All Right, National Sawdust, and Union Pool. Like our Manhattan Marathon, our Brooklyn Marathon highlights artists who blur genre lines while staying rooted in jazz’s spirit of invention.

We Don’t Need the Sea to Drown is a multi-disciplinary performance from Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol that combines stories gleaned from Karol’s movement interview with NY-based artists and community leaders with Shirey’s renowned use of sound objects with the duo’s celebrated choral form, the Gauntlet, where corridors of singers pass a libretto downstream in cascadinging tones and phrases, as audiences experience waves of sound.

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Cash Cobain to National Sawdust in Brooklyn for a celebration and discussion about his latest music, rising career, and more, with a special live performance. MODERATED BY MUSIC JOURNALIST IVIE ANI.

The Lydian Gale Parr is a poetic oratorio composed by Alaina Ferris, with a libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers. It follows a ghost of war traveling through time, pleading for an end to violence. Guided by a cyberglockenspiel, (a midi- and movement-controlled, spatialized vibraphone designed by Eamon Goodman,) this kaleidoscopic piece invites audiences into the recursions, fragments, and community of selves that constitute the Lydian and their ceaseless quest. Lydian has been developed through residencies at New Dramatists, The Tank, Bushwick Starr, and Barnard Movement Lab, as well as National Sawdust.