“Almost presciently, Present Music begins its new season Friday with music about the devastating impact of flooding on American soil,” writes Jim Higgins in Monday’s (9/25) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Present Music is a Milwaukee-based new-music ensemble. “David Bloom will lead the concert, which features Christopher Trapani’s ‘Waterlines,’ a song cycle about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 that draws on hymns and blues of the period. Trapani, a New Orleans native, started composing it … following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina…. Other music on this program [includes] Julius Eastman’s ‘Stay on It,’ and … Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Heart Chant’ and Meredith Monk’s ‘Panda Chant II.’ … Present Music will perform this concert … at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design…. On its Thanksgiving program, PM is performing Iranian-American composer Sahba Aminika’s ‘Warp and Weft,’ premiered by the Kronos Quartet, a musical reflections of the lives of carpet weavers…. PM’s annual Thanksgiving concert includes ‘Grace,’ a world premiere from composer Ingram Marshall… The Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group will open and close the performance.” Other concerts will include music by Mary Kouyoumdjian, John Cage, and Minnesota singer-songwriter violist-composer Sarah Goldfeather.
Posted September 26, 2017
