O, to be a Virginian… (on the Upper East Side)
Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, NYC will turn into “a Kentucky cornfield” on May 7 at 8:00pm, when Makoto Nakura (marimba luminary) and the amazing Cantori New York (Mark Shapiro, cond.) premiere my new piece, O Magnet-South. The text, by Walt Whitman, is richly evocative of the “glistening, perfumed” American South, replete with its “awful natural stillness” and “longings irrepressible.” Makoto, Mark and the gang will also bring us two other world premieres, from David Bruce and Akemi Naito. For more information, and to purchase tickets, see here:
