Postcolonial Recreation
Postcolonial Recreation: mythological cosmology and liturgical practices in Brazilian Afrodiasporic traditions as sources for experimental music creation.
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This event will be held in English.
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Centering recent and ongoing works, this lecture examines an experimental compositional practice engaging materials, contexts, and forms of knowledge derived from these traditions to develop new modes of construction, practice, and forms of sociopolitical and aesthetic intelligibility.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, American-Brazilian composer Marcos Balter has created a body of work that moves fluidly across transdisciplinary and polystylistic realms. Praised by The New York Times as “spellbinding,” his music has received major honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, Chamber Music America, and the Leonard Bernstein Foundation. With an extensive discography to his name, he serves as the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Composition Program at the Tanglewood Music Center.
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
The Rendez-Vous de l’Institut Series is generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
This event will be recorded and may be broadcast as part of our SNF Rendez-vous de l’Institut podcast series. By participating and asking questions, you consent to the use of your voice in this context.
