Marsyas Productions, Ebb & Flow Arts, and Veritas Musicae Present US-Korean Musical Collaborations

Composer/guitarist William Kentner Anderson is the co-director with pianist Joan Forsyth of The Village Trip Classical/New Music.
He is also co-director of Ensemble Cygnus and Artistic Director of the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music.

He was a performer and advocate for modernists like Mario Davidovsky, Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, but his music never aspired to modernistic purity.

"1918" is not about the air of other planets, but about ongoing admixtures of air -- collisions between "tonal" and "atonal", the 7-note scale holding while letting go and ceding to all sorts of chromaticism. "1918" wreaks havoc by time tripping back & forth across that date. It is a somewhat arbitrary date, the fall of the Austro-Hugarian Empire, that we use to describe the end of the common practice era. It begins with a minimalist texture that undergoes various Brahmsian technical devices from op. 15 and 114.

More on the Anderson website -- www.williamanderson.us

The Village Trip Players
-Evelyne Luest, piano
-Andy Didorenko, violin
-Anoush Pogossian, clarinet
-Chris Gross, cello
-Moran Katz, clarinet
-Joan Forsyth, pianist
-Wm. Kentner Anderson, tenor banjo

Brahms -- Clarinet Trio, op. 114
--Anoush Pogossian, clarinet, Chris Gross, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano

Wm. Kentner Anderson -- Clarinet Trio "1918" premiere
--Anoush Pogossian, clarinet, Andy Didorenko, violin; Evelyne Luest, piano

Shinhee Park -- Red Sunset
for clarinet trio
--Anoush Pogossian, clarinet, Chris Gross, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano

Juhyung Kim -- Spirit-Filled Buds
for clarinet solo

Sung Hee Joo -- A Night of Counting Stars
. for clarinet solo

Robert Pollock -- Burlesque for banjo & piano
--Wm. Kentner Anderson, banjo; Joan Forsyth, piano

The Village Trip 2025 -- Sept 19 to 28 at St. John's in the Village, St. Mark's in the Bowery, Salmagundi Arts Club
https://www.thevillagetrip.com

Since 2018, Ebb & Flow Arts (Maui) and Veritas Musicae (Seoul) commissioned Korean and American composers, presenting them in Korea and Maui. This year, the project comes to New York through The Village Trip Players

Shinhee Park's Red Sunset is based on the poem “Concert of Nature” by Soon-yi Huang, depicting a “world piling into darkness” from red twilight.

“1918” sprang from a poem, "The Word of the Wind" by Mah Jonggi (1939-), and. also from a reimagining of the contrapuntal devices from Brahms' op. 15 and op. 114. More on www.williamanderson.us — WKA

Robert Pollock's "Burlesque" was composed at the request of William Anderson. It is a rollicking piece that features jesting gestures such as wide-ranging glissandi, accelerating repetitions, and rapid riffs.

Sung hee Joo’s clarinet piece is based on the poem “A Night of Counting Stars” by Dong Ju Yoon, reflecting reminiscence and memory, loneliness and longing, and hope from the poem.

Juhyung Kim’s clarinet solo comes from the poem “Spirit-Filed Buds” by Sang Ku, singing the infinity inherent in sprouts.

Veritas Musicae, which aims to achieve the "pure artistic spirit," is an organization of composers and theorists founded in 1984 and has focused on composition, performance, and academic activities for over 40 years. (vmus.org)

"순수 예술 정신"의 성취를 목적으로 1984년 설립된 베리타스 뮤지케는 "음악의 진실(Veritas Musicae)"을 추구하는 작곡/이론가들의 단체로서, 40여 년간 작곡과 공연 및 학술 활동에 주력해오고 있다. (vmus.org)

박신희는 스토니부룩 뉴욕주립대학, 주성희는 이화여대, 그리고 김주형은 파리 에꼴노르말을 졸업한 박사들로서 국내외 창작활동은 물론 교육활동을 활발하게 펼쳐온 작곡가들이다.