Lowertown Listening Sessions

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Lowertown Listening Sessions invite curious listeners to enjoy adventurous sounds and insightful conversation with the music-makers of our time. Held at Studio Z, Zeitgeist’s performance space in Lowertown St. Paul, this monthly happy hour series brings guest artists from all genres of new music (jazz, classical, world music, folk, and more) for performances and informal discussion in an after-work setting with food and beverages from Lowertown eateries. 

Upcoming Sessions
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop
Aug. 11, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Take a glimpse into the 2018 Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop, featuring music by composer participants Joe Horton, Brett Wartchow, and Tiffany Skidmore. ​
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist Halloween Commissions
Sept. 6, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist, singer Alyssa Anderson, and composers Daniel Nass, Doug Opel, and Dameun Strange for a discussion on how to create music that sends shivers up your spine. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Music of Alexis Lamb
Oct. 11, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist and Illinois-based composer Alexis Lamb for a performance and discussion of her new composition for Zeitgeist. Lamb's new work is inspired by different regions of Minnesota and the work and life taking place in each community. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman
Nov. 7, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Author, composer and performer Mary Jane Leach discusses her work recovering the music of Julius Eastman, creating the book Gay Guerrilla with Renee Packard, and the New York City new music scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Tiffany Skidmore
Dec. 13, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Studio Z Composer-in-Residence Tiffany Skidmore discusses her work as a composer and artistic member of 113 Composers' Collective. 

Previous Sessions
Lowertown Listening Session: Dead King Mother
Jan. 30, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist hosts a preview and discussion of music from Davu Seru’s new work Dead King Mother, which tells the story of a near-forgotten event in North Minneapolis and United States civil rights history that has been with Seru since early childhood.
Lowertown Listening Session: Music & Activism of Julius Eastman
March 15, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist hosts a discussion on the musical activism of composer Julius Eastman as a preview to Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman
March 21, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Author, composer and performer Mary Jane Leach discusses her work recovering the music of Julius Eastman, creating the book Gay Guerrilla with Renee Packard, and the New York City new music scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. An introduction to Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Seen/Heard Trio
April 30, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist presents a performance/discussion with special guests Seen/Heard Trio (Megan Ihnen, Mezzo-Soprano; Erika Boysen, Flute; Jennifer R. Ellis, Harp). 
Lowertown Listening Session Archive

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