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Cygnus & Momenta String Quartet Present--
Nameless
by Matthew Greenbaum
with
Stefan Wolpe Quartet fragment
--US Premiere--
the 2nd NY performance of
Elliott Carter's HBHH for solo oboe,
featuring Robert Ingliss
Maurice Wright--Overflowing Stream
1st performance
and new works by
Ryan Olivier-American Gumbo(Cygnus)
Mena Hanna-- Songs (Cygnus +soprano)
Melissa Pausina-- Promise (2 guitars)
Julia A. Fowler-- String Quartet No. 2
James Falconi-- Luctor et Emergo
Andy Laster-- Territories
Youtube Interview with Matthew Greenbaum
Listen to Greenbaum:
Wild Rose, Lily, Dry Vanilla
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May 1 at 8PM
Advent Lutheran Church
93rd Street and Broadway
New York, NY --$10 admssn
with sopranos:
Elizabeth Farnum, Julie Bishop, and Priscilla Smith
Momenta String Quartet:
Erik Carlson
Joanne Lin
Stephanie Griffin
Annaliesa Place
Cygnus:
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
Robert Inglisss, Oboe
William Anderson,gt./mand./banjo;
Oren Fader, guitar/mandolin
Calvin Wiersma, vln
Susannah Chapman, vc
"--virtuosos in their own right, and together produce chamber music proper...close observance of each other's actions...a very tight performance." Fanfare, May/June 2009
"..awesome, edgy stuff that I'm hoping to spin quite a bit in weeks to come"-KZSU"
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The inscription:
"The negative attributes have this in common with the positive, that they necessarily circumscribe the object to some extent, although such circumscription consists only in the exclusion of what otherwise would not be excluded. In the following point, however, the negative attributes are distinguished from the positive. The positive attributes, although not peculiar to one thing, describe a portion of what we desire to know, either some part of its essence or some of its accidents; the negative attributes,
on the other hand, do not, as regards the essence of the thing which we desire to know, in any way tell us what it is, except it be indirectly........"
Moses Maimonides,
Guide to the Perplexed LVIII
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A Page from Maimonides'
Guide to the Perplexed
Nameless bears an inscription from the single greatest work of Jewish Philosophy, The Guide to the Perplexed of Moses Maimonides (1120-1190).
The Guide to the Perplexed, written in dialogue with Muslim
theologians, argued the existence of Deity by negation: Whatever is
Deity can’t be described; what can be described is not Deity. Hence,
the title Nameless.
Nameless is a long, wordless psalm. It is not descriptive; rather, it
is a series of images—reflection, ecstasy, reverence, idyll and
dance--expressed through fugue, chorus dialogue and aria. These are
signposts for the listener that point outward to musical expressions of
the ineffable in every culture and time.
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