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New York, NY
August 29, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
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TIME:SPANS
Alarm Will Sound returns to TIME:SPANS and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on August 29th at 7:30pm with Tyshawn Sorey’s For George Lewis; a still and static musical work, filled with layering and an intense awareness of time. Sorey was inspired by Lewis’s The Will to Adorn and describes the connection of his work to it in this way: “There is great attention to detail given to its temporal and harmonic construction, as well as precision, digression, layering, and expressive timing in groups situated within the ensemble. Both pieces are indeed very demanding for the players and require much concentration. Decorating the time…”
Alarm Will Sound recently collaborated with Sorey for an episode of Video Chat Variations. Sorey led AWS, virtually, in an Autoschediasm. You can read about their work in The New York Times and watch and hear the performance here: