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Ken Vandermark's Made to Break Ensemble at Barnes Foundation

Courtesy of Joanne T. Perez | Posted on April 10, 2014

Where

Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215.278.7000

When

Mon, April 21, 2014
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Ken Vandermark
saxophone
Tim Daisy
drums
Christof Kurzmann
multi-instrumentalist

About

MacArthur Fellow and Chicago jazz legend Ken Vandermark premieres a piece inspired by the Barnes collection with his latest and most radical ensemble, Made to Break. Inspired by elements of Ethiopian music, Dutch group The Ex, the New Music concepts of John Cage and Morton Feldman, and jazz and improvised music history, Vandermark has devised a compositional framework that engages and complements Dr. Barnes’s peculiar personal curatorial philosophy. Before the show, ticketholders are invited to join Vandermark and Blake Bradford, the Barnes Foundation’s Bernard C. Watson Director of Education, for a discussion on Vandermark’s composing practices and how they relate to Dr. Barnes’s curatorial vision....

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