Cygnus Ensemble With World Premiere Guitar Works Live Webcast From NYC!

I have a pretty cool one for you this morning, folks!

The lovely folks over at LIVAMP (www.livamp.com) got in touch this week to let me and you guys know that there is a very special event coming up this Friday, January 16th.

LIVAMP is an online platform for broadcasting unique performances from handpicked venues globally. They are working with chamber music virtuosos Cygnus Ensemble to help them reach a broader audience through a live broadcast of one of their exciting upcoming performances.

On Friday January 16th at 7:30pm US Eastern Time Cygnus is performing a unique event at SubCulture in New York focused on showcasing the expansion of plucked instrument repertoire. The concert features the much-anticipated premiere of West of the Moon, by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Yehudi Wyner.

This really sounds like my kind of performance, with a showcase of the wide expressive range of the guitar, its players and its composers, featuring brand, spanking new instrumental and vocal works.

The ensembles Cygnus and Vox ‘n Plux, are joined by soprano, Elizabeth Farnum, baritone Thomas Meglioranza, guitarists Jiyeon Kim and Hao Yang (both students of David Starobin, who will also be conducting a performance of his work at the performance).

You can watch a free live broadcast of the full performance at www.livamp.com (no login required; sign-up online for reminder) Jan 16, 2015 730pm ET live at SubCulture in NYC. How cool is that?!
The performers will be:

Yehudi Wyner: West of the Moon (flute, oboe, mandolin, guitar, violin, cello)

Michael Starobin: Blurred (set of arrangements of theatrical songs by Stephen Sondheim, Tom Kitt, and William Finn, featuring Vox n Plux –soprano Elizabeth Farnum, with guitarists William Anderson and Oren Fader)

Paul Lansky: Talking Guitars (for two guitars)

David Starobin: From Tchaikovsky’s Letters (for baritone & guitar)

William Anderson: Eight Rhythms of Djuna Barnes (for Vox n Plux)

And here’s the full program for you

Michael Starobin: Blurred (2014)
Arrangements of Stephen Sondheim, William Finn and Tom Kitt.
A Cycle of Theater Songs
1. Losing My Mind
2. Psychopharmacology
3. When The Earth Stopped Turning

Vox n Plux
Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; William Anderson & Oren Fader, guitars
Paul Lansky: Talking Guitars (2014)
A conversation for two guitars
1. Repeat After Me
2. Let’s Talk
3. Fast Talk

William Anderson
Eight Rhythms, Six Songs
Settings of Djuna Barnes
1. Seen From the “L” / Rite of Spring
2. She Passed This Way
3. Crystals
4. The Child Would Be Older
5. Paradise / When the Kissing Flesh Is Gone
6. Pastoral

Vox n Plux, with Sheer Pluck Guitar Orchestra

Intermission

David Starobin
From Tchaikovsky’s Letters
1. In Paris
2. My Opera
3. Three Hundred Rubles
4. The Villa Richelieu
5. The Weather
6. My Future
7. Waves

William Anderson & Thomas Meglioranza

Yehudi Wyner
West of the Moon