BlackBox Ensemble: 'Flyover Country' by Erich Barganier World Premiere

The BlackBox Ensemble, an NYC-based contemporary music collective, presents the world premiere of Erich Barganier's Flyover Country, an evening-length piece for speaker and chamber ensemble based on the poetry collection of the same name by John McCarthy. The poetry depicts a gritty, sad, and beautiful panorama of rural, pre-Y2K America and the living history of those intertwined with the region. This new work builds on the poetry, creating a stark, harsh musical setting for McCarthy’s text.

About BlackBox Ensemble

The BlackBox Ensemble is a New York City-based, flexible-instrumentation contemporary music collective. We produce projects that aim to resonate with our cultural and political present, advocate for social justice causes, and push the experimental boundaries of the music of our time. In doing so, we are committed to championing some of today’s most powerful emerging composers through close collaboration.