ICE Artists Studio: George Lewis / Amina Claudine Myers
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This evening, part of the AACM's year-long Artists Studio residency at the Park Avenue Armory, will feature the music of George Lewis and Amina Claudine Myers. MacArthur "genius" fellow Lewis is a composer, musicologist, computer-installation artist, trombonist, and Columbia University professor who also serves as Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. On the first half of the program, the Ensemble will present the US premiere of Lewis's Blombos Workshop (2020) for piano, which engages an overarching concern of Jamaican critical theorist Sylvia Wynter—the promise and potential of the human. This is followed by his Assemblage (2013) for nonet, which presents the sounds of contingency, heterogeneity, nonlinearity, emergence, and bricolage. The second half of the program features a performance by pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, improvisationist, actress and educator Amina Claudine Myers, who will be joined by her trio and actress, vocalist, and playwright Richarda Abrams to perform Stay in the Light, a composition that highlights Myers's spiritual connection to the universe and reinforces positivity, faith, and love for all living things.