Event Description

Quarantine Puzzles

Live streamed from the Nevermore Performance Space, this program features music that references two periods of quarantine – the pandemics of 1918 and 2020. The pieces on the program reflect the conceptual puzzles created by the Dada artists in the 20th century, and the puzzles we’ve had to solve in the 21st century with the gradual loss of personal contact and gradual gain of online relationships. The program runs the gamut from music based on texts written before the 1918 pandemic to music created during the current pandemic.

Program:

I Watched the Leaves in the Wind (2021)**                                      Jonathan Hannau

Suzanne Hannau, flute

Jonathan, Hannau, piano

Pray (2010)                                                                                        Allison Loggins-Hull

Suzanne Hannau, flute

Flutronix, electronics

Playground Puzzle III (2015/2018                                                   Sivan Cohen Elias

Jonathan Hannau, piano

Karawane (2016)                                                                            Janice Misurell-Mitchell

for alto flute/voice and electronics

Janice Misurell-Mitchell, alto flute/voice

Pirouette on a Moon Sliver (2011)                                                    Amy Beth Kirsten

for voice, flute

Text by Amy Beth Kirsten

Suzanne Hannau, voice, flute

The Art of Noise (2011)                                                                    Janice Misurell-Mitchell

                                    Janice Misurell-Mitchell, voice, flutes

John Corkill, percussion

Improvisation on Gadji beri bimba**                                          Hugo Ball, poem

Suzanne Hannau and Janice Misurell-Mitchell, voices, flutes

**World premiere