Columbia Sounds:

A new multimedia work fuses elements of Byzantine music, jazz, and Moore’s own austere compositional style, with the writings of contemporary Greek poet Antonis Fostieris. The work is dedicated to the memory of the greatest Greek Orthodox chanter of the twentieth century, Lycourgos Angelopoulous (world première) and probes the ongoing and collaborative nature of creating meaning in art. The performance will be followed by a discussion with Antonis Fostieris and Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature at Columbia University and Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Jesús GALLARDO and Javiar JUANALS (of the KLEXOS Ensemble), alto and baritone saxophones

John Michael BOYER, baritone voice

Sebastian SCHOTTKE, sound engineer and live electronics

Antonis FOSTIERIS, poet and narrator

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Cosponsors

Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music; Columbia Global Centers | Paris; Department of Music, Columbia University; Columbia University Club of France; and Columbia Undergraduate Programs in Paris; Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University; FACE Foundation; Le Centre Culturel Hellénique, Paris; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe

This performance has been made possible through the New Music Fund, a program of FACE Foundation, with generous funding from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, Florence Gould Foundation, Fondation CHANEL, French Ministry of Culture, Institut français-Paris, and SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique).