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Nonesuch released Michael Gordon's Yo Shakespeare on new Alarm Will Sound record, September 15
Nonesuch released a/rhythmia, the new album from Alarm Will Sound, the 20-member group described by the New York Times as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene," on September 15; it is available to order now in the Nonesuch Store. On the album are works by Michael Gordon, Conlon Nancarrow, Benedict Mason, György Ligeti, and Autechre, among others, that challenge in playful and often dazzling ways conventional notions of rhythm and pulse.
Buy the album here
Listen to Yo Shakespeare here
Two new compositions for dance touring Fall 2009
[purgatorio] POPOPERA US TOUR
US Premiere: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Maryland, MD, September 24, 2009
In choreographers Emio Greco|PC’s collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, seven brilliant dancers oscillate along the seam between music and movement. Omnipresent during the performance are shiny black guitars which, when married with the dancers’ bodies, transform them into fragile flesh-and-blood soundboards. Based on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy, POPOPERA is a richly potent netherworld of transition, transformation and purification where dancers perform to the point of utter exhaustion and ecstasy.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
After performances in Italy, France, and the Netherlands the company is now coming to the US.
September 24-25 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Maryland, MD
September 29-30 Joyce Theater, New York, NY
October 1-4 Joyce Theater, New York, NY
October 10 MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
Pinball and Grace
World Premiere: Groningen Schouwburg, the Netherlands, October 6, 2009
Pinball and Grace is a collaboration between dance group Club Guy and Roni, composer Michael Gordon and Slagwerkgroep Den Haag (Percussion Group The Hague). The piece for 8 dancers and 6 musicians will be premiered on the 6th of October in the Groningen Schouwburg, followed by a Dutch and international tour.
Gotham at New World Symphony
Lincoln Theatre
Miami Beach, Florida
November 7, 2009
7:30PM
[tickets here]
Michael Gordon and film maker Bill Morrison's 'film symphony' about New York City to be performed by Miami's outstanding New World Symphony.
Listen to Gotham here
Listen to an interview with Michael Gordon and
Bill Morrison talking about the creation of Gotham here