TYSHAWN SOREY
'FOR GEORGE LEWIS'
APRIL 24, 2022 | 4:30pm | HAUSER & WIRTH, LOS ANGELES
Tyshawn Sorey. Photo: John Rogers
PROGRAM:
GEORGE LEWIS - NORTH STAR BOOGALOO (1996)
for solo percussion and electronics
(Los Angeles premiere)
TYSHAWN SOREY - FOR GEORGE LEWIS (2019)
for chamber orchestra
(West Coast premiere)
PERFORMERS:
Steven Schick, solo percussion
ECHOI Ensemble
Jonathan Hepfer, conductor
GEORGE LEWIS - NORTH STAR BOOGALOO (1996)
for solo percussion and electronics
(Los Angeles premiere)
TYSHAWN SOREY - FOR GEORGE LEWIS (2019)
for chamber orchestra
(West Coast premiere)
PERFORMERS:
Steven Schick, solo percussion
ECHOI Ensemble
Jonathan Hepfer, conductor
CONCERT INFORMATION:
Date:
Sunday, April 24, 2022 (4:30pm)
Venue:
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
901 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Tickets:
This event is free and open to the public.
Please reserve your tickets here, or at the button at the top of this page.
Safety Measures:
Proof of vaccination required.
Outdoor event. Mask not required.
Distancing not required.
Date:
Sunday, April 24, 2022 (4:30pm)
Venue:
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
901 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Tickets:
This event is free and open to the public.
Please reserve your tickets here, or at the button at the top of this page.
Safety Measures:
Proof of vaccination required.
Outdoor event. Mask not required.
Distancing not required.
‘There was always a saying in my family: you can never forget the bridge that carried you through.
And so George Lewis was one of the key people who basically carried me over this body of water that I was drowning in,
someone who helped me to learn to embrace myself and where I come from as a composer and as an improviser.’
(Tyshawn Sorey)
We are very pleased to invite you to the open-air courtyard at Hauser & Wirth as Monday Evening Concerts presents the West Coast premiere of Tyshawn Sorey's exquisitely glacial and gently monumental work 'For George Lewis' on Gary Simmons’ sculptural installation ‘Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark’ (2014 – ongoing).
A staggeringly multifaceted musical mind, Sorey has spent his career as a drummer, conductor, pianist, teacher and composer, collaborating with artists such as John Zorn, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams and Wadada Leo Smith, as well groups like the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, International Contemporary Ensemble and Alarm Will Sound.
In this fifty-minute work, Sorey pays homage to George Lewis, a borderline mythological mentor who himself has made an incalculable mark on the musical world as a trombonist, improviser, teacher, writer and composer. The work will be performed by ECHOI, the resident ensemble of Monday Evening Concerts, conducted by Jonathan Hepfer.
Also joining us in a very special appearance is the percussionist Steven Schick, a musician Alex Ross described as 'one of our supreme living virtuosos, not just of percussion, but of any instrument.' Schick will perform George Lewis's North Star Boogaloo, a piece that Lewis wrote for Schick in the mid-1990s when the two were both early in their careers as professors at UC-San Diego.
‘Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark’ (2014 – ongoing) will be on view in the gallery’s outdoor courtyard through 22 May. Both a literal and metaphorical platform for conversations, music, and performance, this work is inspired by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s studio and is comprised of amalgamated materials sourced from the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Originally shown as part of the 2014 Prospect.3 biennial in New Orleans, ‘Black Ark’ has been presented at Art Basel Unlimited, Miami, art space Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and Desert X in Coachella Valley, California.