Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Thirst and Quenching Salon
When:
Friday, Jun 30, 2023 7:30p -
9:30p
Friday, Jun 30, 2023 7:30p -
9:30p
Where:
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Admission:
$0-25
Categories:
Art, Music
Event website:
https://www.dinosaurannex.org/event-details/thirst-and-quenching
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, in collaboration with curator Arlinda Shtuni, presents a unique salon experience inspired by her new exhibit, Reservoir: What the Water Knows on view at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. Showcasing new and rendered artworks by six noted artists – A+J Art+Design/ Ann Hirsch and Jeremy Angier, Caitlin & Misha, Heather Kapplow, Nathaniel Price, Nancy Selvage and Ros Zimmermann – the exhibit probes our complicated relationship with water. It looks deeply into how climate warming is impacting each of us and invites us to consider: how are our watery bodies registering and responding to these shifts?
The Thirst and Quenching Salon offers a program of musical compositions and poetry that explore these aqueous quotidian needs and deeper longings. Drawn from diverse experimental traditions, the musical pieces vividly evoke the element of water in an array of states and sonic manifestations. Containing notated and open-ended elements, the works reflect the unpredictability of water’s meandering ways. While noted poets Dara Barrois/Dixon and Ros Zimmermann's verse and experiments with sound render palpable the perpetual process of change in and around us, the yearning for connection, and the debt we owe to the world’s continuing beauty.
Featuring:
Compositions
Kati Agócs – Thirst and Quenching
Marcos Balter – Evens
Julien Malaussena – 8 Mins after Boiling
Improvisations incorporating machines, drawing inspiration from the Waterworks Museum
Musicians
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, flute
Diane Heffner, clarinet
Aliana de la Guardia, voice
Robert Schulz, percussion
Lilit Hartunian, violin
Cost This event is donation-based. We are providing suggested sliding scales here, but please pay as you wish!
$10-15: suggested donation with entry
$20-25: additional support for this program
$25+: sustain our future seasons
The salon is made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Newton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency; and the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Many thanks to the Waterworks Museum for their collaboration in presenting this program.
