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Nov 7 07: Get Cultural!

Hey, New Yorkers! So I’ve been hip-deep in rehearsals lately for a concert to be held next week. It’s the American premiere of Joby Talbot’s fabulous new piece Path of Miracles, to be performed next Monday and Tuesday evenings as part of WNYC’s New Sounds Live program. It’s a 60-minute a cappella work in a bunch of languages (mostly English) about the pilgrimage route across Spain to Santiago de Compostela. The piece breaks at points into as many as 17 separate vocal lines: challenging, but gorgeous, and full of lush, strange harmonies. I’m really looking forward to performing it, and I think that if you can make it to one of the shows you’ll enjoy hearing it. (And it’s free!) If you’re interested in hearing some snippets, I believe it’s on the iTunes Music Store.

The group singing is a chorus of 35 singers, about half of whom are from the now-defunct Juilliard Choral Union (which I used to sing with) and half of whom are professionals. We sound great.

The performances will be at 7pm on this coming Monday and Tuesday, November 12th and 13th, in the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden — which I should stress is NOT the Winter Garden Theatre in Midtown where Mamma Mia! is playing. And they’re free. Further details are below. Feel free to pass this information along to anybody you think will be interested.

Hope you can join us!

UNITED STATES PREMIERE
JOBY TALBOT’S PATH OF MIRACLES
PERFORMED BY THE TALBOT PROJECT
JUDITH CLURMAN, CONDUCTOR

November 12 & 13, 7pm

Path of Miracles, by composer Joby Talbot, takes both performer and audience on an expedition from energetic, driving crescendos to serene, dream-like harmonies. The work takes its inspiration from the intense devotion and spectacle of the annual pilgrimage to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, which draws nearly 100,000 participants from all over the world. This arduous journey and the colorful towns along the way became the basis for the work’s musical structure, which receives its US debut in the cathedral-like Winter Garden.

This performance is part of NEW SOUNDS LIVE, curated by John Schaefer, host of WNYC Radio’s popular shows New Sounds and Soundcheck.

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