Name: ICE and Either/Or Perform Music by Tālib-Rāsúl Hākím
Start: 2024-05-18T14:00:00-04:00
Location: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Bruno Walter Auditorium

ICE and Either/Or Perform Music by Tālib-Rāsúl Hākím

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The International Contemporary Ensemble and Either/Or co-present works by the Society of Black Composers co-founder Tālib-Rāsúl Hākím.

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Before his untimely passing, Tālib-Rāsúl Hākím(1940-88) was already becoming a widely influential composer, one who suffused his music for chamber and orchestral forces with intense deliberation, considered improvisations, dynamic rhythmic profiles, and purposeful silences. Hākím saw his compositions as more than just music: he saw music performance as the equivalent to an almost religious awakening. In the 1978 book The Black Composer Speaks, Hākím maintained, “It is hoped that whenever [my] music is performed, both performer and listener will experience some degree of inner stirring, that they will experience some philosophical, religious, political, emotional, intellectual experience.”In this program, ICE and Either/Or present five diverse aspects of Hākím's artistry that consider music as an encounter with the divine. The program includes performances of Psalm of Akhnaten; ca. 1365-1348 B.C. (1978), an imposing trio work that features a searching articulation of faith, mysticism, and spirituality; Currents (1967), his masterful entry to the string quartet canon; Scope-Seven (1965), an enigmatic solo piano work recently discovered within the vast holdings of the Library for the Performing Arts; Four (1965) for quartet; and Music for Nine Players and Soprano Voice (1977), which features the combined forces of ICE and Either/Or performers.Following the performance, a panel discussion of the history and ongoing impact of Hākím's work will take place, featuring three MacArthur Fellows, composers Courtney Bryan, Tyshawn Sorey, and George Lewis, with Harald Kisiedu (Co-Editor of Composing While Black) and Either/Or’s Richard Carrick and Chris McIntyre. This concert is made possible in part thanks to the John D. and Catherine T. <a href="https://www.macfound.org/" title="https://www.macfound.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MacArthur Foundation</a>, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.Photo credit: Image from the William A. Brown Collection, courtesy of the Archives &amp; Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago

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