It's not often that an ensemble from the Ohio University School of Music performs in two venues on the same night. However, the New Music Ensemble is doing just that.
The New Music Ensemble will perform at 7:30 tonight in the School of Music Recital Hall located in Glidden Hall and at 10 p.m. at Casa Nueva, 4 W. State St.
The concert, titled New Wine in New Bottles
will begin at the School of Music Recital Hall and will feature the New Music Ensemble as they perform their last concert of the year. After playing for about one hour, the ensemble will move to Casa Nueva and perform again.
The show at Casa Nueva will be followed by a two-hour set from The Hot Seats, a Virginia-based bluegrass band that performed at the Nelsonville Music Festival earlier this year.
The concert will feature the U.S. premiere of Sez Who? a piece written by Mark Phillips, a professor of composition at OU. When it was commissioned, Phillips said he was told to create a piece that would encourage the musicians to be a little reckless or sassy.
New Wine in New Bottles is also the last official performance of associate professor of violin Marjorie Bagley, who will be performing with the New Music Ensemble. Bagley will be leaving OU to take a job at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Although she said she has mixed feelings about leaving, she is looking forward to performing.
I like to focus on how fun it's going to be she said.
This concert is different from other School of Music concerts not only because it is being played at two venues on the same night, but because it also features electronically-created music.
Part of my goal for the New Music Ensemble is to do stuff that students normally wouldn't be able to do in the regular large ensemble concerts
said Steven Huang, director of the New Music Ensemble and associate professor of music.
Huang also said it was part of the reason that he booked Casa Nueva for the second part of the concert - it is a venue where most people would not expect to hear classical music.
This is one of the few venues where people get to perform in a way that can break a lot of boundaries
he said. Part of my job ... is to break some of these boundaries.
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