For the third year of her ambitious project, Chase not only commissions and premieres part iii with new works by Nathan Davis, Jason Eckardt, Dai Fujikura, Pauline Oliveros, and Francesca Verunelli.
Claire Chase continues her 22-year project, density 2036, to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year between 2014 and 2036, the 100th Anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking flute solo, Density 21.5. For the third year of her ambitious project, Chase not only commissions and premieres part iii with new works by Nathan Davis, Jason Eckardt, Dai Fujikura, Pauline Oliveros, and Francesca Verunelli, but also performs this alongside density parts i and ii, to give the full scope to date of these immersive and virtuosic performances. Direction and Lighting Design by David Michalek. Sound design by Levy Lorenzo.
September 29 : density 2036, part i . Works by Steve Reich, Alvin Lucier, Philip Glass, Marcos Balter, and Mario Diaz de Leon.
September 30 : density 2036, part ii . Works by George Lewis, Matthias Pintscher, Felipe Lara, and Du Yun.
October 2 : density 2036, part iii . Works by Nathan Davis, Jason Eckardt, Dai Fujikura, Pauline Oliveros, and Francesca Verunelli.
All shows at 8pm
Tickets $15
Photo: Karen Chester
Claire Chase: density 2036, parts i - iii is made possible with endowment support from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, annual grants from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
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