"Letters to Olga" and "The Lost Guitar"
S.E.M. ENSEMBLE PRESENTS
“Letters to Olga” by Petr Kotik (1988)
For two narrators, winds and guitars
On text by Václav Havel
And the world premiere of
“The Lost Guitar” by Petr Kotik (2021)
For solo guitar
Wednesday, May 19 @ 7 pm
WhiteBox @ El Barrio's Artspace PS109 in collaboration with 2B&2C
215 East 99th Street – East Harlem
Thursday, May 20 @ 7 pm
Kentler International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
(On view at Kentler: Joanne Howard’s exhibition SKID MARKS through May 30th)
Sunday, May 16 @ 5 pm
The Yard Outside the Willow Place Auditorium
25 Columbia Place, Brooklyn Heights
New Music Outdoors II
Socially Distanced Concert
Outside 25 Columbia Place, Brooklyn NY 11201
Saturday, November 7, 2:00pm
Amina Claudine Myers and Petr Kotik
Plus Guests
PROGRAM:
Jon Gibson Equal Distribution No. 1 (1977)
Petr Kotik No Agency Plus (2020)
Amina Claudine Myers Down on Me (Spiritual)
Song For Mother E
God / Ritual
Chopin's Prelude in C Minor / The Blues
Cameloupe
Soul Funk #2
Doing Music Outdoors
Socially Distanced Concert
Outside 25 Columbia Place, Brooklyn NY 11201
Saturday, September 26, 3:00pm
PROGRAM:
Michael J. Schumacher Solitary Confinements (2020) (Premiere)
Judith Berkson Chevrusa (2020) (Premiere)
Robert Ashley The Mystery of the River (1991)
Thomas Buckner, baritone; Tom Hamilton, electronics
Morton Feldman Why Patterns? (1978)
Alvin Lucier Love Song (2016)
String Noise
Petr Kotik No Agency / Tuba Mirum (2019 / 2020)
Phill Niblock Exploratory, Rhine Version "Looking For Daniel" (2019) (U.S. Premiere)