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 I sing the body electric: Walt Whitman and The Beat Generation Poets in Chamber Music and Song
June 12,
8:00PM
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Program:
Alexa Babakhanian: Beat by Beat (DiPrima)
William George: Vigil strange I kept on the field one night (Whitman)
William George: Pull my daisy (Kerouac/Ginsberg/Cassady)
Steve Ebel: Cadillac Rain (Ferlinghetti)
Anthony Ocaņa: Dog (Ferlinghetti)
Ben Schumann: Calamus Poems (Whitman)
David Sisco: TBA
The new works will be accompanied by songs and vocal chamber works by New York composers Marc Blitzstein, Leonard Bernstein, David Del Tredici, Tom Cipullo, Jerome Kitzke, Charles Naginski, John Musto and more.
An evening of newly created vocal chamber ensemble works and songs inspired by the texts of Walt Whitman and his long acknowledged poetic progeny, the American Beat Generation of the 1950's and 60's. On June 12th the intrepid New Music New York musicians will unveil seven world premieres.
Price: $20 suggested donation
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