Zeitgeist in Concert

Playing it Close to Home • Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 • 9:30 a.m. • Black Box Theatre

With winning songs from our Eric Stokes Song Contest plus music by local composer Janika Vandervelde, our annual Playing it Close to Home concert celebrates the wealth of musical creativity found right here in our own backyard. The program will include the premiere performance of This World is Maya, Vandervelde’s new work composed for Zeitgeist, plus Genesis VII, written for Zeitgeist in 1989.
The music of Janika Vandervelde grows out of a vigorous dialogue between instinct and form. Her subtle, assymetrical weave of pitches and rhythms has been described as “endlessly fascinating… ordered, yet timeless.” In the past decade, Ms. Vandervelde’s music has become more eclectic and elastic, integrating a more open, spontaneous, multi-dimensional sound-world into her earlier preoccupation with process, architecture, and purity of language.
A native of Wisconsin, Ms. Vandervelde has written more than 90 works for orchestras, choirs, chamber ensembles, soloists, and the stage. She has twice been a Bush Artist Fellow and a McKnight Foundation Composer Fellow, has been honored with the Boulanger Award of the Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco.
The Eric Stokes Song Contest is sponsored by Zeitgeist in memory of late composer Eric Stokes; the contest was designed to encourage and celebrate amateur composers throughout the Twin Cities. This year’s winners are Ivan Cunningham and Meridith Henke in the youth category, and Joshua Weinberg in the adult category. — Images and copy courtesy of the Zeitgeist website

Zeitgeist

WHO: Zeitgeist
WHAT: Annual Live Concert: Playing it Close to Home
WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 • 9:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Black Box Theatre
Fine Arts Building
Inver Hills Community College
2500 East 80th Street
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
TICKET PRICE:
General: $15
Seniors: $10
Students: FREE with Inver Hills I.D.

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Zeitgeist personnel

For more information about Zeitgeist performing at Inver Hills, contact:

Katherine Bergman
Zeitgeist Director of Marketing and Communications
651-755-1600
Zeitgeist: Performing the Music of Our Time
Stanley H. Rothrock, II
Inver Hills Music Faculty
RenegadeEnsemble Artistic Director
651-450-3324
Office: Fine Arts 176

To learn more about earning an A.F.A. in Music at Inver Hills, contact:

Stanley H. Rothrock, II
Inver Hills Music Faculty
RenegadeEnsemble Artistic Director
651-450-3324
Office: Fine Arts 176
Andrew Martin
Inver Hills Music Faculty
651-450-3774
Office: Fine Arts 178