Date/Time
Feb 10, 2012 - 8:00 PM
Location
The Firehouse Space
Categories
On Friday, February 10 at 8pm *ensemble mise-en* will perform a free
concert at the gorgeous *FIREHOUSE SPACE* in Williamsburg. This concert
will feature new and recent works by New York composers *Elizabeth Hoffman*and
*Yoon-Ji Lee*; as well as pieces by *Elizabeth Ogonek*, *Kaija Saariaho*,
and a special performance of *Luciano Berio*’s “O King”. The concert is
free and open to the public; audience members are invited to meet with the
musicians and composers at a reception afterwards to celebrate *mise-en*’s
first concert of the year.
A brand-new project, *ensemble mise-en* seeks to promote large-scale
composition projects and intense performances of contemporary and new music
in New York City. The fifteen-plus member ensemble has the breadth of a
“chamber orchestra”, but defies the associated hierarchies of power,
developing collective long-term programming and performance goals that
interrogate canonicity in the contemporary scene. As a collective, the
multi-national personnel has coalesced around a real aesthetic agenda,
crystallized in the name *mise-en*; “mee” in Korean, means “beauty”,
and”zahn”, “to decorate”, and the group unabashedly promotes “beautiful”
artwork to increasingly diverse audiences of contemporary sounds.
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