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Venue: Issue Project Room, New York City

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AddressGround floor, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn
New York City
NY NY 11201
United States
Google maps40° 41' 55.238" N 73° 59' 9.389" W
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Kopernikus revival finds inspiration – and cliché – in the afterlife

Composer Claude Vivier approaches the unknowable with a text delivered by a septet of vocalists in a language of his own invention. But the new production adds overly literal video, trading abstraction for the obvious.

***11
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Either/Or's Phenomenal Philip Guston

After four and a half hours of glacial, repetitive, soporifically quiet music... the crowd goes wild! This was the scene at Issue Project Room on Sunday evening as three members from the Either/Or Ensemble concluded Morton Feldman’s monumental trio For Philip Guston.
*****
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Nate Wooley's Seven Storey Mountain at Issue Project Room

Seven Storey Mountain, the title of Trappist monk Thomas Merton’s autobiography, is a reference to the mountain of purgatory in Dante’s Inferno. It is also, fittingly, the title of trumpeter Nate Wooley’s song cycle – meant to represent “a certain abandon found in religious practice within the confines of a composed work for instrumentalists”.
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Transcendent November in March: An early minimalist classic in New York

When’s the last time you were simultaneously awake and truly unaware of what time it was? You probably can’t remember, right? These days everything is time-stamped; everyone constantly checks their phone as they hurry from one task to the next.
*****
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