Music Show & Tell: Danny Tunick & Special Guests

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Music Show & Tell: Danny Tunick & Special Guests. The program will combine music from two different universes. Half of the concert will be devoted to the world premieres of a series of three interlocking compositions by Brooklyn-based modern classical composer Mark Edward Gibbons: A piece for marimba solo, a string quartet, and a quintet consisting of a string quartet plus marimba. The other half of the concert will consist of a duet performance featuring musician Danny Tunick and Physical Theater performer Cassie Tunick.

Music Show & Tell is a live music series providing a chamber-music like setting for the performance and discussion of mostly acoustic music, primarily of international origin. The series is also open to jazz, classical, and “new” music, and multi-disciplinary collaborations.

Danny Tunick is a veteran of an extreme array of different musical scenes in New York City and beyond. From many varieties of rock (such as Dan Kaufman’s Euro-literary-underground band Barbez, the band of punk rock founding father Jowe Head, Rebecca Moore’s haunting and fragile group Prevention of Blindness, New Zealand cult legends The Clean) to classical (he has conducted music by Pierre Boulez, Charles Wuorinen, and Zs founder Sam Hillmer, among others), to an array of music that falls between any convenient category (extreme minimalist Arnold Dreyblatt’s Orchestra of Excited Strings, downtown luminary Elliott Sharp’s Orchestra Carbon, the thuggish, sludgish noise of Lydsod, the pagan Civil War rituals of Flaming Fire), he has attempted to navigate around and through innumerable other musical obstacles. He has worked closely with many dancers and dance companies, including Juliette Mapp and Armitage Gone! Dance, and the theater directors John Jesurun and Rinde Eckert. He is the resident composer for Tanya Calamoneri’s Company SoGoNo.

His performances can be heard on over 30 record labels, including Tzadik, CRI, Opus One, EMI, New Albion, Capstone, Merge, RCA, Wiiija, Important, Mutable Music, Bridge, Happy Squid, Cantaloupe, Red Toucan, Spaced, Black Box, Rare Book Room, and Rock Against Rock.

The A String Quartet was recently founded by cellist Gregory Hesselink with the express manifesto of performing world premieres of works by local composers for local people. Consisting of veterans of New York City’s New Music scene, the quartet combines interests in architecture, acoustics and color theory to create ‘dashing’ interpretations of older works, along with ‘seasoned’ renditions of works that have barely been finished.

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer, and teacher. Raised in California she arrived to theater in her early twenties by way of dance. Originally trained in ballet and modern technique she began an intensive practice in Action Theater™ with Ruth Zaporah in 1991 and since then has been improvising and creating original physical theater work on stages from San Francisco to Berlin. Fascination with language led to an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, a small Buddhist college, which then influenced her theater work on many levels. In 1999 she became a member of Shinichi Iova-Koga’s inkBoat company and was introduced to Butoh dance and a starkly imagistic theater-making that resonated with an ongoing delight in the surreal and darker world of fairytale, myth, and the profoundly mysterious nature of being. Since moving to New York in 2004 she has continued solo performances as well as collaborating with such talented artists as Tanya Calamoneri & Company SoGoNo, composer Keren Rosenbaum’s Reflex Ensemble, Heather Harpham, Shinichi Iova-Koga, and the Action Theater Ensemble. Current and past collaborators also include Owen Walker, Sten Rudstrom, Sabine von der Tann, Leigh Evans, Katie Yates, Max Regan, and Etiquette (Mary Lois Hare and Linda Carr).