Ecstatic Music: Bell Orchestre – A Performance Film
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Bell Orchestre comes together in the beautiful Canadian countryside to make this unique concert film. Bell Orchestre consists of six musical mavericks, including Arcade Fire members Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry, who, on their critically-acclaimed first two albums, have shifted the boundaries of instrumental music. The group cites such diverse influences as Talk Talk, Lee 'Scratch' Parry and Arvo Pärt, which come together to form a contemporary sound as if Debussy had composed his fragile impressionism with the knowledge of the ecstatic possibility of a pop concert.
Experience Ecstatic Music online!
Get up close and personal with trailblazing artists and groundbreaking performances streamed directly to your home. Ecstatic Music has been hailed as "a who's who of the music scene" (WQXR) and "audacious combinations and post-genre hybrids" (The New Yorker). Performances are followed by live post-concert talks with the artists and series curator Judd Greenstein.
Announcing 2021 Visionary Awards Recipient
2021 First Commission
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Paloma Alonso
"2020"
Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Shayna Dunkelman, percussion
Angélica Negrón, mentor
Paloma Alonso is a New York City native. She is 13 years old and attends the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Her parents, both classical concert pianists, were her first piano teachers. Alonso cites her Cuban father and Albanian mother as major inspirations for introducing her to music of all styles and genres. She began studying cello six years ago with Juilliard-trained teacher Yves Dharamraj and also pursues her passion for dance at the school of New York Theatre Ballet where she has trained rigorously since the age of four. Alonso joined the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Program in 2017. She commented that "This wonderful program opened a whole new world of expression to me. Composing is another tool that allows me to be expressive in a beautiful and artistic way". In December 2019, on a Young People's Concert, the Philharmonic performed Alonso's Sweating Bullets under the baton of its Music Director Jaap van Zweeden. The orchestral work was scheduled to be performed by the Philharmonic again in April of 2020 but, was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.