About this Event
A night of new choral music written by Louis Cole, first premiered at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles in August of 2024. Now brought to Brooklyn's Pioneer Works for one night only, this promises to be a special night.
A hooded figure in dark sunglasses climbed the pulpit at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Just below, a few dozen singers gathered at the front of the packed sanctuary, conducted by a woman on stilts — elevated to see the choir in full.
This was a first for Louis Cole, the man in the pulpit. Cole is known primarily as a drummer, and his music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock, albeit with a flair that’s hard to categorize. But now, Cole had given himself a new musical challenge, which might be best described by the tagline he included on the poster for this concert: “Louis Cole attempts to write new music for a choir.”
“It is a new thing for me,” said Cole in an interview with All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang. “I’ve always stacked my voice for my own harmonies, for my own music. But that’s just me by myself. It’s so different having a group of people, tuning with each other, singing with each other in the same space.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 30.71 to USD 48.63
