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On October 28, PRISM Quartet performs a recital of new music at Western Michigan University’s Dalton Center Recital Hall located at 1300 Theatre Drive in Kalamazoo, Michigan.PRISM’s program travels from the factory floor to a pine forest and from Hollywood to China. Four of the works were commissioned by PRISM, including Roshanne Etezady’s Inkling, a one-minute vignette written in 2004 for the ensemble’s twentieth anniversary. As its title suggests, it offers the merest hint of an idea, and its clouds of sound showcase PRISM’s flexibility and color. Don Byron’s new Quartet for Saxophones is a fearless homage to classic film scores of the ’50s and ’60s, from the title-sequence swagger of “Saul Bass” to a closing “Fandango.” Bright Sheng’s Old Tune Renewed takes its name from a Chinese tradition in which performers reinvent well-known compositions as new works. Sheng builds his piece on a folk song from Northwestern China, capturing the spirit of singing that rings through open valleys while imbuing it with his own voice. In selections from Chris Potter’s epic Improvisations, written for PRISM’s Heritage/Evolution series and recorded on Heritage/Evolution, Volume 2, jazz saxophonist Andrew Rathbun improvises over the quartet, stepping into the solo role first shaped by Potter and Ravi Coltrane on the recording. The program’s other two works have deep Michigan roots. Bill Ryan’s Tiny Machines, a set of miniatures inspired by the robotic assembly line at Ford’s truck plant in Dearborn, is heard in an arrangement commissioned by the Sinta Quartet. Kristin Kuster wrote Red Pine for the Sinta Quartet to mark Don Sinta’s retirement from the University of Michigan. WNYC’s John Schaefer calls it “a sonic depiction of the simple beauty of the pine forests of Ontario.”
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More info: https://www.prismquartet.com/concerts/wmu/
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The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music, 1903 W Michigan Ave,Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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