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Jason Calloway + Sidecar

Monday, November 5
Admission:
$5, $10 minimum
Showtimes:
8:30pm
reservations are recommended

Cellist Jason Calloway explores old and new works for cello with electronic sounds, amplification, distortion, and general mayhem as he dismantles and reassembles his cello over the course of recent standards by Davidovksy and Lachenmann alongside newly composed works written for him by Matthew Barnson, Mena Mark Hanna, Adam Mirza, Jane Stanley, Olav Lervik and Samuel Pluta.

followed by...

Sidecar (Anne Hege, vocalist and composer, and Heather Heise, pianist)

Flirting between art song recital and cabaret theatre, The Children's Hour is a 45 minute-long program featuring the music of Façade by William Walton, as well as art songs and piano pieces by Charles Ives, John Cage, Jim Tenney et al. Sidecar's original audio and visual design, which includes interactive electronics and sound processing, tape compositions, and video, provides a nervy counterpoint to vintage texts by Edith Sitwell and Henry Longfellow. The menagerie of game and play is an eight year old's imagination cracked open, punctuated by expert vocal and musical evocations of intrigue and nightmare: Between the dark and the daylight, comes a pause in the day's occupations that is known as Children’s Hour....

Sidecar: http://www.annehege.com/sidecar.html