2009-2010 Season
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Zeitgeist's 1st Annual New Music Cabaret Sept. 10-12, 2009 Zeitgeist and Studio Z are hosting a series of Lowertown Cabaret music events. With three hours of local live music each night, the cabaret features some of the Twin Cities’ best musicians coming together in celebration. Music lovers are invited to attend one, two or three shows each night. Sept. 10 Mississippi Peace George Cartwright Glory and PonyCat with Alden Ikeda and Adam Linz Zeitgeist Sept. 11 Nautilus Music-Theater Zeitgeist Janus Percussion Sept. 12 Vivian Corringham Zeitgeist Opera Bob Zeitgeist In the House Oct. 22-24, 2009 Celebrate the grand opening of the new Studio Z with performances by Zeitgeist and friends! Oct. 22: Evening of music curated by renowned local composer Philip Blackburn Oct. 23: Featuring two works that launched the minimalist movement in music, In C by Terry Riley and Any Integer by La Monte Young. Oct. 24: Music in Similar Motion by minimalist superstar Philip Glass plus Poem for Tables, Chairs, Benches, etc by La Monte Young Just the Girls Nov. 19-21, 2009 Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd and Shannon Wettstein will perform unique works for two percussion and piano by an illustrious assortment of women composers, including works by Alex Shapiro, Tina Davidson, Edie Hill, Kathy Jackanich and Pamela Madsen (male audience members are welcome!). Celebrating Our CD Jan. 14-16, 2010 Zeitgeist celebrates the release of our new CD, In Bone Colored Light with works by Ivo Medek, Jerome Kitzke, Anthony Gatto and Harold Budd plus an excerpt from Mary Ellen Child’s new opera, Propeller. Playing it Close to Home Feb. 13, 2010 at Chanhassen High School; Feb. 19-20, 2010 at Studio Z This annual concert features winners of our 15th annual Eric Stokes Song Contest and Janika Vandervelde’s Women and Water project with works by students from the Perpich Center for Arts Education and the Schubert Club’s Mentor program, plus works by Gao Hong, Mike Croswell and Doug Little created for the American Composers Forum’s St. Paul Listens program. Wired April 1-3, 2010 Zeitgeist performs works hailing from the electronic music tradition, including works by Arthur Kreiger, Alvin Lucier, Scott Miller and Charles Dodge For the Birds with Kevin Kling June 4-6; June 10-12, 2010 A brand-new chamber suite by Victor Zupanc based on a series of poems by humorist and writer Kevin Kling, featuring Kling as narrator. The poems, written while Kling was watching the antics of various birds outside his hospital window where he was recovering from a motorcycle accident, are at once beautiful, tragic, ethereal and comic – a perfect vehicle for Zupanc’s chameleon-like musical sensibility. |
