Golden City with Miguel Zenón at MIT
When:
Friday, Mar 14, 2025 8:00p -
9:30p
Friday, Mar 14, 2025 8:00p -
9:30p
Where:
Thomas Tull Concert Hall, Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building W18-1102
201 Amherst St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Music
Event website:
https://artfinity.mit.edu/event/golden-city
MIT presents the Boston-area premiere of Golden City by Grammy Award-winning alto saxophonist/composer and MIT faculty member Miguel Zenón. This sweeping extended composition for large ensemble traces San Francisco's demographic and political evolution from pre-colonial times to today's tech-dominated era. The piece showcases Zenón's masterful saxophone work alongside a formidable trombone-centric horn section, guitar, piano, bass, and percussion.
Commissioned by SFJAZZ and the Hewlett Foundation, Golden City has been acclaimed by All About Jazz reviewer Dan McClenaghan as "a triumph... Miguel Zenón at his creative peak. A riveting listening experience." The ever-curious Zenón immersed himself in California's history, from its indigenous communities through its Mexican period, the Gold Rush, and waves of Asian migration. "I talked to about fifty individuals and came out the other side with a lot more information to feed the creative process," he says.
Though not strictly programmatic, Golden City is deeply informed by the places and people Zenón encountered. From the opening lines of "Sacred Land" to the closing passages of "The Power of Community" and "Golden," the music takes listeners on a profound journey. Writing in Stereophile Magazine about the 2024 Grammy-nominated album, Tom Conrad notes, "Golden City defies easy categorization. If it is an 'ethnic' record, its ethnicity is the human race."
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