MIDWEEKMUSIC - Chapin Steps
Wed, September 11th, 2024
12:15 pm
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This first MIDWEEKMUSIC of the year consists of just one piece – with many performers. Matthew Gold leads a group of Williams students, faculty, and friends in a group performance. The piece will be Julius Eastman’s Stay On It.
In 1973, Stay on It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head. It is minimal, but unashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn’t jazz and never slips into the non-committal. It is open to theatrical and performative elements, but also to poetic-lyrical ones.
Instrumentation is open, although traditionally voice(s), piano, and mallet percussion have been a part of most performances.
This performance is open to all instrumentalists and singers. Please contact mgold@williams.edu to sign up.
Student vocalists/instrumentalists who would like to participate:
*sign-up HERE (must be logged on to your Williams account!)
*Please contact Matthew Gold with more questions
*This is a music community event open to all of our talented student musicians!
Chapin Hall, steps – weather permitting. If the weather is bad the performance will take place on the Chapin Hall stage.
MIDWEEKMUSIC is a unique lunchtime music series. The audience sits on the Chapin Hall stage to enjoy the wonderful acoustics and atmosphere of a grand hall combined with the intimacy of a chamber concert. Everyone is encouraged to bring lunch and enjoy the music performed by our students and faculty.