Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA)
314 South Park Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan  USA

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American Composers and O'Keeffe

View the complete Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times exhibition at the KIA and hear eight world premiere compositions in the museum gallery alongside the paintings that inspired the composers' new works.

Opus 21 and the KIA present a special aural and visual event featuring new musical compositions by eight American composers commissioned specifically for this occasion – each inspired by a work of art in the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. The event brings together the paintings of some of America's greatest modern artists and the music of today's composers. New works include:

Richard Adams – "Dancing Willows" (2009) *
Andrew Bishop – "Roof Tops" (2009) *
David Colson – "2 Alone" (2009) *
John Griffin – "Bone and Stone" (2009) *
Joel Harrison – "Marin Movement" (2009) *
Keith Murphy – "Ore into Iron" (2009) *
Bill Ryan – "Red Tree, Yellow Sky" (2009) *
Carl Witt – "Karuna" (2009) *

* World premiere. Commissioned by Opus 21.

Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY  USA

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All-Rzewski Program
Part of Carnegie Hall's Making Music Series
Opus 21 with guest pianist Stephen Drury and composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski

Attica
Spots
Cadenza
Natural Things – world premiere *
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

* Co-commissioned by Opus 21 (with support from the 2008 Chamber Music America Commissioning Program), Carnegie Hall, and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.

GVSU Performing Arts Center
Louis Armstrong Theatre
Allendale, Michigan  USA

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America’s Multicultural Music

The program will feature six works commissioned by Opus 21 from some of America's leading composers, including former composer-in-residence of the New York Philharmonic Tania LEÓN and eight-time Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Paquito D’RIVERA, both of whom are Cuban-American and have incorporated elements of Cuban music into their compositions. Each of the works on the program draws on a different influence from around the globe, including compositions by CHEN Yi (China), Kamran INCE (Turkey), Martin BRESNICK (Spain), and Trent KYNASTON (Central America). The concert also includes Music for Pieces of Wood by Steve REICH inspired by African and Balinese music, and Two Impersonations by Evan ZIPORYN, which incorporates elements of the music of Japan and Kenya.

Kerrytown Concert House
415 N. Fourth Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan  USA

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Five World Premieres – Postminimalism in the 21st Century
Plus the U.S. Premiere of Louis Andriessen’s Klokken voor Haarlem

Preview performance of the group's upcoming New York concert (see below).

Thalia Theater at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway (at West 95th Street)
New York, New York  USA

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Five World Premieres – Postminimalism in the 21st Century
Plus the NY Premiere of Louis Andriessen’s Klokken voor Haarlem

As a follow-up to last season’s sold-out performance at the Thalia, OPUS 21 returns with a genre-busting program of world premieres. The concert salutes the minimalist and post-minimalist composers of the past several decades and focuses on the impact their groundbreaking music has had in shaping today’s newest generation of composers. The program will feature five new works by both established and emerging talents who have been influenced by this defining movement in Western musical history, including Richard ADAMS, Anna CLYNE, Mark DANCIGERS, Dennis DeSANTIS, and Bill RYAN, as well as the U.S. premiere of Louis ANDRIESSEN’s Klokken voor Haarlem, David LANG’s Stick Figure, and Steve REICH’s New York Counterpoint.

Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium
Thomas Jefferson Building
Corner of 1^st St. & Independence Ave., SE (across from the U.S. Capitol)
Washington, D.C.  USA

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New Works Inspired By Motown
Special guests, Motown legend and original "Funk Brother" Jack Ashford, and Velvelettes' lead singer Cal Street

Opus 21 performs a multi-genre program of contemporary classical and jazz works influenced by the Motown sound of 1960s Detroit. The concert features seven compositions commissioned by the ensemble, including pieces by Michael DAUGHERTY, former composer-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; world-renowned jazz musician Fred HERSCH, Motown Records’ original bandleader and legendary member of the Funk Brothers, Joe HUNTER; Richard ADAMS, Eve BEGLARIAN, Tom KNIFIC, and Daniel Bernard ROUMAIN.

Wellspring Theater at the Epic Center
359 S. Burdick Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan  USA

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Five World Premieres – Postminimalism in the 21st Century

Same as New York concert (see above), presented in collaboration with Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers.