Ensemble mise-en Debut Concert
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8 PM
The Cell
(338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011)
The cell will present New York contemporary/new music group ensemble mise-en in their debut performance. This free concert will include premiers and new renditions of works by composers Kurt Rohde, Eric Allen, Moon Young Ha, Elisabeth Harnik, and a special performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra.
A brand-new project, ensemble mise-en seeks to promote large-scale composition projects and intense performances of contemporary and new music in New York City. The fifteen-plus member ensemble has the breadth of a “chamber orchestra”, but defies the associated hierarchies of power, developing collective long-term programming and performance goals that interrogate canonicity in the contemporary scene. As a collective, the multi-national personnel has coalesced around a real aesthetic agenda, crystallized in the name mise-en; "mee" in Korean, means "beauty", and"zahn", "to decorate", and the group unabashedly promotes "beautiful" artwork to increasingly diverse audiences of contemporary sounds.
This concert features works by Austrian composer Elisabeth Harnick, as well as Arnold Schoeberg, and is underwritten in part by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture, in honor of the Austrian National Independence day. Audience members are invited to speak with and meet the composers (besides Schoenberg) at a wine reception after the concert.
Admission is free. For more information, please visit http://www.mise-en.org or http://www.thecelltheatre.org