Artists Studio
Double Bill: George Lewis & Amina Claudine Myers
George Lewis
Amina Claudine Myers
December 18, 2023
Veterans Room
MacArthur fellow George Lewis is a composer, musicologist, and trombonist who serves as the Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. On this concert, the US premiere of his Blombos Workshop (2020) for piano, which engages Sylvia Wynter’s celebration of the human, and Assemblage (2013) for nonet, which explores in musical form the practice of assemblage—artmaking that recombines and recontextualizes collections of natural and human-made objects—are performed by members of the Ensemble on a special double bill with Amina Claudine Myers. This multidimensional artist and creator is joined by her trio and actress, vocalist, and playwright Richarda Abrams to perform Stay in the Light, a partly notated, partly improvised composition that highlights her spiritual connection to the universe and reinforces positivity, faith, and love for all living things.
Performances
Monday, December 18, 2023 at 7:00pm
Gallery
Support
Public support is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
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Artists Studio
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Artists Studio
Amina Claudine Myers Choral Workshop
Prodigious pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and improvisationist Amina Claudine Myers leads a vocal workshop for aspiring singers and the general public to perform some of her original compositions.