I just heard from Joseph McCarthy, who happens to be the development director of the Irondale Center, and he wrote of this interesting cultural event: This Could Be Weird, Could Be Wild, Likely To Be Wonderful.
Check out what's happening at the Irondale Center, the new performance space on the second floor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Ft. Greene: Anthony
Braxton and Walter Thompson Premiere A
New Soundpainting Composition
Performed by Anthony Braxton, Walter Thompson, the Walter Thompson
Orchestra,
and the actors of the Irondale Ensemble Project
In collaboration with Soundpainter Walter Thompson and the Walter
Thompson Orchestra, MacArthur Fellowship-winning composer Anthony Braxton
– one of music’s most original composers and instrumentalists – will
premiere a new work. Mr. Thompson will combine Mr. Braxton’s Language Music
System with Soundpainting
– the multidisciplinary live – composing sign language created by Mr.
Thompson. The concerts will feature performances by Anthony Braxton, a
woodwind virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist, the fifteen musicians, and
actors of the Walter Thompson Orchestra and Irondale Ensemble actors.
April 16, 17, 18 at 7:30PM
Prices: $20.00 Adult | $15.00Student/Senior/Working Artist
Another Special Event: April 18 at 1PM
Irondale's
Big Box of Distractions
Walter Thompson will be running an interactive soundpainting workshop
with the Young Company and audience members. Since Walter spends a lot
of time in Sweden, they're serving Swedish finger
food as a treat!
Prices: $10.00 child + one adult | $5.00 each additional child |
$10.00 adult without child