Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at 9:30 a.m. • Inver Hills Black Box Theatre
Zeitgeist brings annual Playing it Close to Home concert to Inver Hills Community College *
The program includes the world premiere of a new work composed by Mary Ellen Childs for Zeitgeist, plus several other works from Childs’ catalog, including excerpts from her opera Propeller, “visual percussion” pieces, and music for prepared piano.
Visit Zeitgeist to learn more.
Mary Ellen Childs has been acclaimed for creating both rhythmic, exuberant instrumental works and bold, kinetic compositions that integrate music, dance and theater in fresh and unexpected ways. She has created numerous “visual percussion” pieces for her ensemble CRASH, embodying the concept of music in motion, and she writes for a variety of ensembles, including solo accordion, string quartets, chamber groups, and vocal groups. Her works engage the various senses beyond sound. Childs has a background of not only music, but also dance and theater, and was a choreographer before a composer.
According to Childs, the underlying concepts in all these art forms are the same and have been instrumental in establishing her unique musical sound. Childs’ music has been performed in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. She has received artists fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
* Press release courtesy of Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist Director of Communications
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home Coffee Concert
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 • 9:30 a.m.
Black Box Theatre
Fine Arts Building
Inver Hills Community College
2500 80th Street East
Inver Grove Heights, MNFREE and open to the public
Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
About Zeitgeist…
Founded in 1977, Zeitgeist is a new music chamber ensemble consisting of two percussion, piano and woodwinds, and is one of the oldest and most successful new music groups in the country. Based in St. Paul, Minn., the group presents an annual concert series and delivers a wide variety of community-based performance programs for residents of the Twin Cities and the surrounding areas. Zeitgeist’s mission is to bring newly created music to life with performances that engage and stimulate. Members are: Heather Barringer, percussion; Patti Cudd, percussion; Pat O’Keefe, woodwinds; Nicola Melville, piano.
Zeitgeist concert Black Box Theatre February 2016
Zeitgeist is supported by the The City of St. Paul’s Cultural STAR Program, The Amphion Foundation, The Knight Foundation, The Lowertown Future Fund, the Target Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Albrecht Family Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund, The Mandel Family Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature.This activity is made possible with support from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
To learn more about the Zeitgeist concert at Inver Hills, contact:
Katherine Bergman
Zeitgeist Director of Communications
info@zeitgeistnewmusic.org
To learn more about the A.F.A. in Music at Inver Hills, contact:
Andrew Martin
651-450-3774
Office: FA178
Admissions Team
651-450-3900
Toll-free: 866-576-0689
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