S.E.M. Ensemble

Special Event:

SOUNDS & WORDS

Music by Petr Kotik

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 5:00pm

Willow Place Auditorium

26 Willow Place, Brooklyn

Free Admission: RSVP HERE

The S.E.M. Ensemble recording Many Many Women in 1980. Photo by Blaise Tobia.

Program:

Petr Kotik Many Many Women (excerpt) (1975-78)

Text by Gertrude Stein

Petr Kotik Concept & Gravitation (2026) / world premiere

Texts by R. Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Mead, and Petr Hruška

S.E.M. Ensemble, New York

Petr Kotik, Director

Padraic Costello, Countertenor

Nathan Fletcher, Tenor

Emma Mistele, Narrator

Petr Kotik, Flute

Sam Jones, Trumpet

William Lang, Trombone

The duration of the program will be approximately 90 minutes.

S.E.M. Ensemble performances are possible thanks to the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, as well as individual donations: Noni Pratt, Thomas Buckner, Stephen Deutsch, Rotraut Moquay, Daniel Costello, Beth Greenberg and James Wright, Catherine Bandet, Victoria Newhouse, Steven Holl, Renée Levine Packer, and an anonymous donor. Many thanks to the following supporters: Dexter Dine, Bruno Ferrandis, Stephanie Griffin, Lawrence Kim, Mary Elizabeth Pratt, Ben Richter, and Gary VanderPutten.

The S.E.M. Ensemble would also like to thank past major supporters in memoriam – Virginia Dwan, John Cage, Herman Gersten, Sheldon Berlow, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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