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ZEITGEIST

PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF OUR TIME

2012-2013 Season



New Music Harvest
Oct. 4-6, 2012


Join us as we launch our 35th season with a cornucopia of tantalizing new chamber music from throughout our nation plus delectable dishes prepared by Lowertown’s finest restaurants.

Next.Stop by Anna Clyne, New York
Whispering by Narong Prangcharoen, Thailand/Missouri 
 like rain upon the moon by Brooke Joyce, Iowa 
Prime by Marc Mellits, Chicago 
We Speak Etruscan by Lee Hyla, Chicago. 

With guest artists Kyle Hutchins, soprano sax and Kirsten Whitson, cello.


Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret
Nov. 15-18, 2012


With three to four hours of local live music each night, Zeitgeist’s 4th Annual New Music Cabaret features some of the Twin Cities’ best musicians performing an eclectic variety of new music. 

Thursday, November 15 
7 p.m. Flying Forms
8:30 p.m. Zeitgeist
10 p.m. Atlantis Quartet

Friday, November 16 
7 p.m. Ensemble 61
8:30 p.m. Zeitgeist
10 p.m. Orange Mighty Trio
11 p.m. McNally Smith Showcase-
Joseph Schad

Saturday, November 17 
5:30 p.m. Bill Simenson Orchestra
7 p.m. Saltee
8:30 p.m. Zeitgeist
10 p.m. Gao Hong & Butterfly
11 p.m. McNally Smith Showcase-Improvestra

Sunday, November 18 
2 p.m. Duo Zeno
3:30 p.m. Zeitgeist
5 p.m. Carei Thomas' Neighborhood Band
6 p.m. McNally Smith Showcase-Petersen/Charmoli/Lewis


Playing it Close to Home
Feb. 22-24, 2013


With winning songs from our Eric Stokes Song Contest plus works by local treasure Jeffrey Brooks, our annual Playing it Close to Home concert celebrates the wealth of musical creativity found right here in our own backyard.


Zeitgeist Early Music Festival
The Electronic Age: Medium and Message

April 5-7, 2013


With our third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, how we listen and how we perform.

As a group of musicians unabashedly dedicated to the music of our time, we know the most meaningful expressions of today are informed by the contributions of musicians of yesterday. In acknowledgement of this artistic debt, we travel back before the time of iPhones, email, and xbox to explore the powerful contributions of the musical pioneers of days gone by.

April 5
Steve Reich - Pendulum Music
Alvin Lucier - I am Sitting in a Room
Charles Dodge - Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
John Cage - Cartridge Music
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie I

April 6
Charles Dodge - Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
John Cage - Cartridge Music
Michael Oldfield/arr. Zeitgeist - Tubular Bells
Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire

April 7
Steve Reich - Pendulum Music
Alvin Lucier - I am Sitting in a Room
Michael Oldfield/arr. Zeitgeist - Tubular Bells
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie I


Early Inspirations: A Neighborly Collaboration
May 17-19, 2013


Who says strong fences make good neighbors? The Baroque Room’s Flying Forms and Studio Z’s Zeitgeist, part of Second Floor Live in the Northwestern Building, join forces to share their love of musical adventure in this collaborative celebration of musical tradition and innovation. This concert features new works written for Flying Forms’ baroque instruments plus new works for Zeitgeist inspired by music of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Works include:
A Gondola Evades Us by James Holdman
Consortia by Scott Miller
Kepler’s Dream by J. David Moore
The armed man should be feared… and other lessons from the Renaissance by Justin Rubin
Retouchage by Nissim Schaul
For Tami: Inspired by d’Anglebert’s D Minor Suite by Asako Hirabayashi
From the Book Hours by Kirsten Broberg
Pièces de Clavecin en Concert by Abbie Betinis
Toccata Settima, Book II by Girolamo Frescobaldi
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