The Tank Presents EAR HEART MUSIC: ClariChaplin 3/4

"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!" said 20th Century comic genius, Charlie Chaplin.

Taking this advice literally (and as a challenge) a four-piece ensemble of clarinetists intend to do just that. For one night, to the backdrop of some of Chaplin's best works, they will improvise musical melodrama to accompany all the pain and pantomime on screen.

Nuno Antunes, Marissa Byers, David Sapadin and Boris Shpitalnik are successful musicians, having performed all over the world, and now combine forces to reduce their art to the interpretation of slapstick. Chaplin's cane swinging, hat tipping, dame-conquering, thug-outsmarting routines will each be given new life by the ensemble as they attempt to keep up with the action.

$5 Student tickets will be available at the door.

Presale tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95476

About Ear <3 Music
a new music series at the Tank
Amelia Lukas, curator
Ear Heart Music is where New Yorkers can get their aural fix. Featuring some of New York's most cutting edge performers, composers and programming, this is a modern chamber music series presented to an intimate crowd. We believe that audiences want to be engaged - not simply entertained - by the music they go out to hear. We nurture our listeners by presenting repertoire that is challenging yet relevant, and by providing context for our work. Ear Heart Music: Makers opens discussions about the art-music of now taking the work of interviewed composers as a starting point. These events also include live performance.

Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.