Name: Sound On: Composing While Black, Volume II
Start: 2024-10-25T19:00
End: 2024-10-25T20:30
Location: Theater 1

Fri, Oct 25, 7:00–8:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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This event is open to Access members and above, but has reached capacity.

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MoMA is pleased to welcome the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic. For more than 20 years, ICE has made a collective commitment to advancing experimental music by honoring the diversity of human experience and challenging assumptions about how music is made and experienced. Acclaimed composer, performer, and musicologist George Lewis—a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant”—serves as artistic director of the Ensemble. This special evening, organized by Lewis, is the second program in a series that takes inspiration from his recent book Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today (2023), which explores how Black composers have fostered a creolized, cosmopolitan new music for the 21st century. The program spotlights a slate of voices, including Jalalu Kalvert-Nelson, Daniel Kidane, Hannah Kendall, Tebogo Monnakgotla, Joshua Uzoigwe, and Leila Adu-Gilmore. Lewis and MoMA Scholar in Residence, composer, and flutist Nathalie Joachim will introduce the program in conversation with each other.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m. Please enter through the Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder Building entrance at 11 West 53 Street. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited.

Questions? Please contact [email protected].

Accessibility
Assisted listening capabilities available
FM assistive-listening devices (headsets and neck loops for T-coil compatibility) are available for sound amplification.

Sign language interpretation available
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.

Sound On: Composing While Black, Volume II is a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the New York Philharmonic.

This program is organized at MoMA by the Department of Research Programs, and is produced by Lizzie Gorfaine, Associate Director and Producer, and Kate Scherer, Senior Manager and Producer, with Nora Chellew and Olivia Rousey, Assistant Performance Coordinators, Performance and Live Programs.

This performance is part of Other member programs.

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