At our ninth Groupmuse event, we heard the following setlist:

Contrapunctus No. 8

Sonata in Eb, BWV 525
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Intermission

Selections from Thoughts and Prayers

Lauren Hlubny presents and Thomas Giles performs selections from Danse Theatre Surreality’s project, Thoughts and Prayers.

“Thoughts & Prayers” explores America’s relationship with tragedy, catastrophe, and loss. Over the course of an hour, the work presents Dana and Felix, a fictitious couple, and their experience of Five Disasters through dramatic mixtures of music, movement, and images—a dance-theatre concerto. Six musicians (3 woodwinds, 3 strings) embody two distinct Greek Choruses: Congress and The Activists, giving full voice to the acrimonious clashes of present-day America. Each Act, or Disaster, is introduced through a virtuosic cadenza and dance solo, and followed by orchestrated structures of dialogue, physical partnering, and contrary staging. This collaboration between artists of completely different disciplines creates a complicated, disruptive, elegant, and dark world made cohesive by director Lauren Hlubny and her team of dedicated professionals.

Preview September 19 at 8pm

September 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 at 8pm

September 29 at 3pm

TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W 28th St, New York, NY 

Purchase your tickets / Acheter votre billet HERE

On March 26th, 2019, Bryan M. Wilson and Midge Wattles reset our space. They took down all the old artwork and cleaned up the black paint on the walls. Instead of patching and erasing the history of hanging hardware, they added a gem to the head of each nail and screw, proportional to its size. It left us a constellation of four years of hanging history. After a cleansing ritual, they invited Thomas Giles to play some music.

In the garden, Bryan performed a ritualistic planting of the seeds of value:

FLAMINGO - gold, south right corner

CONDOR - silver, south left corner

OWL - bronze, north left corner

FINCH - lapis lazuli, north right corner

STARLING - peridot, under the center tree

Value is identified, then the bird was asked to visualize that value as a form in their mind.

Form is imagined and then I, CARDINAL, would flip a Morgan silver dollar, letting that value form give life by Lady Fate.

The bird was then asked to remember if the coin flip read heads/tails.

Once Lady Fate gave her judgement on the value form, the form is released into the world.

In five coin flips, they all came up heads.

Groupmuse Event

The MANA Quartet

Saxophone Quartet

Quartet for Four Saxophones Op. 109 (1932)
by Alexander Glazunov
I. Partie
II. Canzona Variée:
Theme
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3 (a la Schumann)
Variation 4 (a la Chopin)
Variation 5 (a la Mendelssohn)
III. Finale

Break

Saxophone Quartet (1995)
by Philip Glass

Groupmuse Event

Trio 212

Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon Reed Trio

Jacques Ibert- Cinq pieces en trio
Jean Francaix- Divertissement

-break-

Charles Huguenin- Trio
Georges Auric- Trio
Giuseppe Verdi- selections from La Traviata (trans. Alexandre Ouzounoff)

At our fourth Groupmuse event, we heard the following program:

Thomas Giles - Saxophone

Lauren Hlubny - Vocals

J.S. Bach - Partita in A minor BWV 1013
solo saxophone

Poetry reading, Lauren Hlubny

Meredith Monk - Hocket
solo saxophone

Intermission

Hans Kox - The Stranger (ft. Lauren Hlubny), saxophone + narration