Event Information
- Sat21Sep2024
The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Microtonal Village American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDTSt John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States
GuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New York’s best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Julián Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Gary Philo, among others.
The GuitarFest 24 program:
- Lou Harrison’s Canticle III
- excerpts from Jonathan Dawe’s microtonal opera: Amor nello Specchio (Love in the Mirror) for microtonal guitars, with Sharon Harms, soprano
- music touching on Connie Converse, one of the earliest musicians to work in the singer-songwriter genre who mysteriously disappeared in 1974, and John Fahey, whose style has been described as the foundation of American Primitive guitar
- No Benign Umbrella, Nora Stanley, commissioned by The Village Trip for Ictus Novus
- William Anderson’s Kaleko Sonata for electric guitar and piano
- a memorial tribute to Larry Polanski, guitarist and composer
- Four’s Company, composed by Paul Lansky for David Starobin’s guitar class at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
Performers: Ictus Novus; The Curtis Guitar Quartet – Xingxing Yao, Ruqi Jiang, Radomir Romashkov-Danilov, and Muxin Li; cellist Richard Jimenez; soprano Sharon Harms; flutist Roberta Michel (ocarina); guitarists Jay Source, Oren Fader, Dan Lippel, Mario García Hurtado, Kyle Miller, Pascual Araujo, Niel Beckman, Daniel Conant, Daniel Zapata, Oren Fader, and Giacomo Fiore; percussionists Matthew Kowalski, Dylan Ofrias, Jordana Sidlow, and Najee Marcelin; and pianist Joan Forsyth
Composers: Kyle Miller, Larry Polansky, Lou Harrison, John Fahey, Julián Carillo, Andrew McKenna-Lee, Todd Tarantino, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Gary Philo, Shoko Suzuki, Kenny Hill, Nora Stanley, William Anderson
The concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend.
