CADILLAC MOON ENSEMBLE AND CIRCLES AND LINES: A FRIENDLY COLLABORATION

As part of a yearlong collaborative project, Cadillac Moon Ensemble presents an evening of pieces from composer collective Circles and Lines. This concert is the culminating event of a long-standing collaboration with CME and C&L, which has included interviews with WVUM 90.5 in Miami, Florida and WRIU 90.3 in Kingston, Rhode Island, and an open rehearsal held at New York University and streamed for a worldwide audience.

CME will perform new works by Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn, as well as previously performed works by Angélica Negron, Conrad Winslow and Noam Faingold that have long been regarded as favorites in CME’s repertoire. Immediately following the concert, there will be a Q&A session with the audience and both groups discussing the collaborative process.

The concert is Friday, May 17, 2013 at 5:00pm at Tenri Cultural Center (43A West 13th Street, Manhattan). Tickets are: $15 general; $10 students and seniors.

Program:

  • Angélica Negrón – Quimbombó*#
  • Eric Lemmon – Canis Major * # †
  • Dylan Glatthorn – Fever Dreams * # †
  • Noam Faingold – A Knife in the Water
  • Conrad Winslow – Abiding Shapes * #

* commissioned by CME
# premiered by CME
† World Premiere

Funded in part through New MusicUSA’s MetLife Creative Connections program.

Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Circles and Lines is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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Circles & Lines + Cadillac Moon Live Stream Video

Here is the recording of the Live Stream Cadillac Moon and my composers group Circles and Lines put on.  My segment is at the end, and I hope you enjoy!  During the course of the rehearsal, Meaghan (Cadillac’s cellist) asked me why I had chosen to use dashed bar lines in the score.  After the short rehearsal I thought on the question more and I remember that as I had begun to write the movement a|STL: Wormhole.  I imagined it was originally to exposit in a far more free way, much like the very beginning (which you hear).  Time signatures were to be non-existant and gestures were supposed to be quasi-aleatoric in their temporal execution (after all time and space warp in wormholes!).

Eventually though, I found the material that I was bringing in from other movements demanded a more rigid structure for practical purposes.  For example, the fast leggiero section from the last movement would be silly to represent in a dashed bar line setting without time signatures, so I threw in double bar lines to demarcate the major section and put in time signatures to make it easier to read.  It turned out I had to keep returning to this kind of scoring to the point that having dashed bar lines in an attempt to elegantly convey the freeness of the movement and gestures became meaningless.

Live Stream of Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Circles and Lines in Open Rehearsal at NYU, April 14th, 2013 from Circles and Lines on Vimeo.

Interview & Live Stream/Open Rehearsal!

Tomorrow, Circles and Lines + Cadillac Moon Ensemble will be busy busy bees! First we start off with an interview for WRIU 90.3‘s music for internets and then conduct a live-streamed, open rehearsal.

The Live Stream Schedule will run from 6:00 to about 8:00. Drop by 35 West 4th Street, room 307 if you are in NYC, there will be snacks! If you are spread out across the world, you can watch the live stream at: http://www.justin.tv/circlesandlines

Check out the event here:
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 Circles and Lines + Cadillac Moon Ensemble

Circles and Lines + Cadillac Moon Ensemble + WVUM.org

Our Interview with Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Jackson Parodi on WVUM 90.5 FM The Voice‘s classical lunch will air at 11:00AM EST Today! Topics discussed cover collaborating during the composition process, new classical music and much, much more! Oh, yeah also clips of pieces we’ve written for Cadillac Moon! Tune in here: http://wvum.org/index.php/wvum/stream/