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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

DOUBLE-BILL CONCERT BY LOCAL MUSICIANS @ SYMPHONY SPACE IN NYC

I normally don’t post about events in NYC, but the performers involved are Montclair residents and are quite active in the community. Recent NJ events have included performances at SOPAC, MAYO Center for the Performance Arts, WAE/JSDD Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled and the upcoming December 7 New Providence schools concert/residency.

Glen Velez TA KA DI MI Project and TRIO GLOBO Perform in a 
Double-Bill Concert One-Night Only at Symphony Space

WHEN: Friday, January 7, 2011, 8:00 PM
WHERE: Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street)—Train 1/2/3 to 96th Street
TICKETS: $30/$20 Students + Seniors

To purchase tickets, contact Symphony Space 212.864.5400 or visit http://www.symphonyspace.org

Regarded as the founding father of the modern frame drum movement, four-time Grammy Award-winning percussionist Glen Velez performs a wide-ranging, virtuosic program of original music drawn from jazz, classical, blues and cultural traditional from around the globe.

clip_image004The TA KA DI MI Project is comprised of percussion legend Glen Velez and rhythm voice master Lori Cotler performing original compositions derived from music of the Mid-East, Central Asia and the Mediterranean region. TA KA DI MI represents the primal rhythm cycle of four beats, which leads the mind from the mystical realm of numbers and into the sublime world of music and sound.  Velez and Colter are joined by percussionists Shane Shanahan (an original member of the award-winning Silk Road Ensemble) and Yousif Sheronick (a member of Ethos and a regular collaborator with the Lark Quartet).

The first half of the program will include Velez’s groundbreaking classic, Doctrine of Signatures, the first composition for frame drum ensemble of its kind that uses the Glen Velez Handance Method of stepping, vocalizing and drumming. Influenced by John Cage, the pioneer of chance music, Doctrine echoes Composed Improvisation for One-Sided Drum with or without Jingles (1989), a work written by Cage exclusively for Velez.

clip_image002Trio Globo has been blending jazz and world music since 1993.  Having crafted a totally original voice in contemporary acoustic jazz, the group’s musicality has been cited as “inventive, instrument-stretching, genre-busting.” (Journal Sentinel)  Comprised of Grammy Award winning musicians, the members of Trio Globo are true originals, re-inventing their instruments in new music both personal and global. With roots in jazz, classical and sacred music, the ensemble’s rhythmic influences derived from travels in six continents. Program highlights include tracks off of their new CD “Steering by the Stars,” their first full-length recorded album in almost 15 years.