(Photo credit: Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre) Columbia University’s Miller Theatre featured “John Zorn at 70,” with works by avant-garde and experimental composer and conductor John Zorn on November 16, 2023 to a sold out audience. Zorn, well-known for his “deliberate category resistance,” is one of New York’s most important composers. His support for his artistic community is unconditional and {…}
Credit: Marco Borggreve Soprano Barbara Hannigan will sing two concerts with the famed JACK Quartet this coming November. Hannigan, a frequent collaborator of the string quartet, will perform works by John Zorn in celebration of the composer’s 70th birthday. The first concert will take in Paris at Cité de la Musique on Nov. 1, 2023. Three works by Zorn, “Jumalattaret,” {…}
(Credit: ALAN NAHIGIAN) “Rituals” is a five-act monodrama for mezzo-soprano and 10 instrumentalists composed by American composer John Zorn. The History The opera received its first performance at the 1988 Bayreuth Opera Festival, of which Wagner’s Parsifal (conducted by the late James Levine) opened the festival’s activities and where the late German opera director Harry Kupfer premiered a controversial-yet-innovative reimagining of {…}