92NY | Wild Up: Darkness Sounding Vivier, Lanzilotti, & more
$48-$63 (discounts available for Friends of 92Y, Himan Brown Program)
- Christopher Rountree, conductor
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — with eyes the color of time
Claude Vivier — Zipangu
James Tenney — Saxony
Los Angeles-based music collective Wild Up breaks their acclaimed "Darkness Sounding" festival out of LA for the first time, premiering it in New York City on 92NY's stages.
The trio of concerts follows the enormous success of Wild Up's "Radical Adornment: The Music of Julius Eastman" at 92NY in 2023. The festival of concerts, conversations and workshops exploring how sound and music shape our understanding of the world has been called "sincere, outdoorsy, a little trippy" by The New York Times. Convening around themes of mindfulness and nature, "Darkness Sounding" centers on deep listening, intentional gathering, and thoughtful questioning to foster awareness and expand connections to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Join us for this boundary-pushing weekend of concert experiences merging listening, ritual, and community.
Legendary avant-pop icon Scott Walker's final piece was a siren storm written for Wild Up, and they are honored to bring Rubato (It: 'Stolen Time') for trombones, strings, and electronics to NYC, performing it for the first time outside Los Angeles. Wild Up pairs the songs and lineages of Leilehua Lanzilotti's Pulitzer finalist work with eyes the color of time and queer Canadian composer Claude Vivier's futurist Zipangu, ending with LA composer James Tenney's celestial improvised wall of overtones, Saxony.