John King’s Astral Epitaphs at Roulette

Friday, December 7, 8pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves)

John King

TILT Brass revisits John King’s spectacular work for brass sextet and live electronics, Astral Epitaphs. It was written for and premiered by TILT during the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final concerts at the Park Avenue Armory.

Also on the program: world premiere of Kosmos for  string quartet featuring Conrad Harris & Corneilus Dufallo on violin, Yves Dharamraj on cello, and King on viola; and TILT, the quartet, and several more heavyweight local musicians also giving the premiere of (climax in) The Deserts of Love, an indeterminate work for large ensemble and soprano, featuring Melissa Fogarty. A poetic reduction of the Arthur Rimbaud text.

More info on roulette.org

John King – Astral Epitaphs (2011)
for TILT Brass

PESONNEL
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Tom Bergeron, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, director
John King – live-electronics