Composer Portraits: John Zorn at 70 – Music for Strings
Campus Arts Event
Composer Portraits: John Zorn at 70 – Music for Strings
This fall, Miller Theatre celebrates the 70th birthday of New York musical icon John Zorn. The season opens with a spotlight on Zorn’s writing for strings.
$10-$30
Miller Theatre
September 21, 2023 | 8:00 pm
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Repertoire

John Zorn
Sigil Magick: A Curious and Detailed Exposition of Sigils, Signs, and Hieroglyphs Peculiar to the Occult Orders, Hermetic Brotherhoods, and Dark Mystery Schools of the Late Middle Ages for string quartet (2020)
John Zorn
The Gas Heart a mini opera for 2 celli and 2 percussionists (2020)
John Zorn
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science for string sextet (2020)

Performers

JACK Quartet
Yura Lee
viola
Michael Nicolas
cello and voice
Sae Hashimoto
percussion and voice
Ches Smith
percussion and voice

Location

Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

About The Performance

This fall, Miller Theatre celebrates the 70th birthday of New York musical icon John Zorn.

The season opens with a spotlight on Zorn’s writing for strings. Eight trusted interpreters of his music join forces for three virtuosic and important works, all written in 2020, including the mini opera, The Gas Heart, for two cellists and two percussionists.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Image: John Zorn / photo courtesy of John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation