REDCAT Set To Present A One-Night Engagement Of THE LINDAS On 10/10

REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) welcomes back to its theater The California E.A.R. Unit performing a one-night engagement of world premieres entitled The Lindas on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

For the Los Angeles-based ensemble's upcoming performance at REDCAT, core players Eric Clark (violin), Vicki Ray (piano) and Amy Knoles (percussion) are joined by Jim Sullivan (clarinet) and Peter Jackson (cello). Turning their refined attentions to composers named Linda, the group premieres Wanderer by the brilliant Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, commissioned by the Unit; the sensuous multimedia work Forecast by fellow Canadian Linda Bouchard; and the haunting Moonsick by Dublin-based Linda Buckley. The egalitarian program does extend fearlessly into non-Linda territory: After Forgetting, a sizzling new work by Keeril Makan, who was also commissioned by the Unit, and Daniel Salecich's mesmerizing Generator (urban speed time-out).

The performances at REDCAT are funded in part with generous support from The George and MaryLou Boone Fund for Artistic Advancement.

The California E.A.R. Unit: The Lindas performs on October 10, 2009 at REDCAT. Curtain is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, with student discounts available. Seating is general admission. Tickets and information available at the REDCAT box office, 213-237-2800 or www.redcat.org.

REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).

The California E.A.R. Unit (core players Eric Clark, violin, Vicki Ray, piano and Amy Knoles, percussion) is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, and promotion of the music of our time. The Ensemble is comprised of performers and composers that began with the goal of developing the first true repertory ensemble for new music in Los Angeles. The California E.A.R. Unit strives to achieve a flexibility and rapport within contemporary music, and earn an international reputation as one of America s finest contemporary chamber ensembles.

The California E.A.R. Unit was founded in 1981. In its twenty-eight year history, the ensemble has presented concerts of electroacoustic and live interactive computer music, music theater, dance, and local and world premieres of over 500 chamber works.  The E.A.R. Unit seeks to serve its home base of Los Angeles, reflecting the region's unique cultural diversity, and to represent Los Angeles and Southern California as its new music ambassadors to the world.

The ensemble has earned critical acclaim, garnering awards for its contributions to the field of contemporary American music such as the L.A. Weekly's Best Classical Ensemble 1999 and 2003, as well receiving the prestigious Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center in 1999.

The Unit has performed in many main venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. They have toured throughout the world: Brussels, Aspen, Kiev, Paris, Cologne, Tanglewood, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Amsterdam, Reykjavik, as well as to other domestic and international hot spots for new music. The ensemble has been featured in documentaries for the BBC and Japanese television, American and National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Danish National Radio, and WGBH's "Art of the States."

From 1987 to 2004 the E.A.R. Unit was Ensemble-in-Residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since then, they have been in residence at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) housed in the Walt Disney Hall Complex. The Unit has worked closely with many composers such as Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, John Luther Adams, Fred Frith, Tod Machover, Julia Wolfe, Louis Andriessen, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Gordon, Charles Wuorinen, Morton Subotnick, and Alison Knowles, among many others.

The E.A.R. Unit has recorded for Nonesuch, New Albion, New World, Tzadik, O.O. Discs, Bridge, Crystal and Cambria labels. Recent CDs include:  GO on the Echograph label, a recording of some of today's greatest living composers, John Adams, James Sellars, Frederic Rzewski, Julia Wolfe, and John Bergamo; SETTINGS, chamber works of Pulitzer Prize winning Los Angeles composer Mel Powell; and Indigenous Music chamber works of Stephen "Lucky" Mosko; The group is very proud to announce the release of Morton Feldman's For Christian Wolff on Bridge Records sizzling hot off the press.

The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, opened by CalArts in 2003, introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in this region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT is the newest partner in an international network of adventurous art and performance centers, which together are playing a vital role in the evolution of contemporary culture. REDCAT is a center for experimentation, discovery, and lively civic discourse.

REDCAT sponsors include The Standard, Yamaha, Ovation TV, Los Angeles magazine and KCRW.
REDCAT acknowledgements

Photo: Richard Hines.

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