The Young People's Chorus of New York City's performances with the Kronos Quartet on Friday, October 8 at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City will be the start of a year-long celebration of the YPC's Transient Glory commissioning program.
The celebration has been dubbed Out of the boX - Transient Glory: 10 Years of Radical New Music for Daring Young Minds and is comprised of numerous concert events and public performances by the YPC and conducted by founder and artistic director, Francisco J. Núñez in New York and around the country, culminating in the release of a new Transient Glory recording in Fall 2011.
Transient Glory was initially created as a concert series to celebrate the young singing voice as a serious instrument for making music. Since 2001 a Who's Who of today's major composers has been - and continues to be - commissioned by the YPC to write an ever-growing catalogue of music, all of which is being published and sung by children and women's voices worldwide. To date, the program has commissioned more than 60 new works from some of today's most eminent composers, and has been recognized for increasing the repertoire for children's chorus while spotlighting the diversity of contemporary music.
On Friday, October 8 the Young People's Chorus of New York City will join the Kronos Quartet for a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge at 8:00 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.) that includes a performance of Terry Riley's Another Secret eQuation, a 2009 Transient Glory commission that was premiered by the Kronos Quartet and the YPC at
Carnegie Hall in March 2010 and described by the New York Times as moving from "... a sort of playground chaos... through antique, liturgical harmonies to passages rooted in vibrant, Latin rhythms".
The concert will also see the YPC join the quartet for the world premiere of Exalted by
Michael Gordon. This work was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. Mr. Gordon has previously composed for the Transient Glory program and his 2007 commission Every Stop on the F Train has become a much-admired part of the YPC's repertoire.
The October 8 concert with the Kronos Quartet will be recorded and available as an audio stream from WXQR's Q2 website,
www.wqxr.org/q2
Out of the boX celebrations will continue through 2011 with the following events:
· March 12, 2011 - YPC performance at the American Choral Directors' Association National Conference in Chicago, featuring works by Transient Glory composers Meredith Monk, Gabriela Lena Frank, John Corigliano and Jim Papoulis
· March 27 and 28, 2011 - 'Works & Process' concert at the Guggenheim Museum celebrating David Del Tredici, featuring his Transient Glory choral work Four Heartfelt Anthems
· Spring 2011 - Preview performances of Transient Glory world premieres around New York City
· Spring 2011 - Publication of new Transient Glory works by Boosey & Hawkes and G. Schirmer
· Spring 2011 - Radio Radiance national broadcasts of new Transient Glory works on American Public Media's Performance Today
· May 6, 2011 - Transient Glory concert at the 92nd Street Y at Kaufmann Concert Hall featuring new works by Michael Harrison and Tania León
· June 2011 - YPC performance at the Bang on A Can Marathon featuring the works of Michael Harrison and Michael Gordon. (Free and open to the public.)
· Fall 2011 - A new film featuring the Transient Glory history and performance highlights
· Fall 2011 - A new Transient Glory CD
For more information about Transient Glory and the YPC please visit www.ypc.org.
