Videos
Concert 4: Chromatic Collaboration with Owen/Cox Dance Group - Brad Cox interview
newEar recently pinned down Owen/Cox Dance Group co-founder & co-artistic director Brad Cox to learn more about his fascinating new composition, Long Day/Good Night. This work will receive its world premiere April 29 & 30 during the newEar + Owen/Cox Chromatic Collaboration at Union Station. Buy tickets now for this extraordinary melding of creativity in music and motion: www.unionstation.org
Concert 2: Pulitzer Autumn Reflections
This concert features works by recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize in music, and has been curated by long-time newEar pianist Robert Pherigo. A bouquet of chamber and solo pieces by John Corigliano, Steven Stucky, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Moravec, and Leon Kirchner compose this distinguished and variegated collection, many of which are Kansas City premières.
Concert 1: Music and Minimalism
newEar returns to minimalism once again for our first concert of the season as a part of the Second International Conference on Minimalist Music. Highlights of the concert will be the professional premiere of Terry Riley's Autumn Leaves and a performance of Tom Johnson's Narayana's Cows, a musical rendition of the fourteenth century Indian mathematician's numerical sequence. Also featured on this concert will be Grind by Phill Niblock, Vladimir Tosic's beautiful Arios for cello and piano, Barbara Benary's Sun on Snow for soprano and mixed ensemble, and The Body of Your Dreams for piano and boombox by Jakob ter Veldhuis. For more information please visit the Second International Conference on Minimalist Music.