Free Tickets to Present Music Concert
Members get free access to "Neon Life" virtual concert.
Neon Life. Image from Present Music.
On Friday, June 11 at 7:30 p.m., Present Music will be celebrating Neon Life, their season finale virtual ensemble concert. It should be a very cool event. The cost is $10, but it’s free for Urban Milwaukee members.
Neon Life highlights the work of an unlikely combination of composers and unleashes the creativity of local filmmaking group TankThink.
Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman’s work “Neon Lights” pays homage to the iridescent glow that draws us into jazz clubs, while Australian composer Tansy Davies’ “Neon” evokes the buzz of nocturnal urban rhythm. Daniel Kidane’s “Winged” and David Lang’s “learn to fly” evoke the zero-gravity thrill of spiraling in midair.
Present Music interprets the finale from storied saxophonist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill’s sweeping and beautiful “Old Locks and Irregular Verbs” in a new version for large ensemble. Threading the whole program together is “Life,” a series of aphorisms by Dutch luminary Louis Andriessen that distill overwhelming complexities of life on Earth into arrestingly humble musical expressions.
Neon Life features artists of our time, who capture our moment with clarity, reverence, and the requisite sense of adventure.
If would like to join the virtual concert, you can click here to pick up a discount code for a free ticket, while supplies last.
Once you checkout, click on the link in the confirmation notification to download your Discount Code. Then go to eventbrite to reserve your ticket.
Following the event, ticket holders will have access to the concert video to watch on-demand until September 11, 2021.
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