Composers Concordance Presents A Knack For Anachronism at St. John's In The Village

For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Saturday, June 8th at 8pm at St. John's In the Village, Composers Concordance presents 'A Knack for Anachronism'. For this event, composers are asked to write music with elements that defy chronology or are incongruous in the present, including surprising combinations of genres, timbres, and instruments, etc. These compositions will be performed by the Centuries Trio, which is in itself an anachronism. Formed to perform music of the past with the electric guitar playing the violin lines, the baroque cello da spalla playing the cello, and the piano keeping its own, the trio performs music of Mozart, Handel, Mendelssohn, as well as new works written for them. The ensemble will be joined by mezzo soprano Sishel Claverie, composers Jay Elfenbein on electric viola da gamba and Sophie Dunér, voice as well as percussionist / tap dancer Max Pollak....

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For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Saturday, June 8th at 8pm at St. John's In the Village, Composers Concordance presents 'A Knack for Anachronism'. For this event, composers are asked to write music with elements that defy chronology or are incongruous in the present, including surprising combinations of genres, timbres, and instruments, etc. These compositions will be performed by the Centuries Trio, which is in itself an anachronism. Formed to perform music of the past with the electric guitar playing the violin lines, the baroque cello da spalla playing the cello, and the piano keeping its own, the trio performs music of Mozart, Handel, Mendelssohn, as well as new works written for them. The ensemble will be joined by mezzo soprano Sishel Claverie, composers Jay Elfenbein on electric viola da gamba and Sophie Dunér, voice as well as percussionist / tap dancer Max Pollak.


Featured compositions include Gene Pritsker's 'An Anachronistic Melody', Charles Coleman's 'Flurry', Jay Elfenbein's 'Mood Swing,' Lynn Bechtold's 'Great Scott! What the Dickens!', Dan Cooper's 'Good Night', David Rothenberg's graphic score 'Three Paths to the Music of Nature', and Sophie Dunér's 'The City of My Dreams', plus Pritsker's arrangement of a transcription of Thelonious Monk's solo version of 'Tea For Two' by Vincent Youmans.


The concert will also be live-streamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook Page.

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