Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra at the Tully Scope Festival, by Douglas DaSilva

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Tyondai Braxton. Photo Grace Villamil.

Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra, Caleb Burhans, conductor
Tully Scope Festival, Lincoln Center
Monday, March 7 at 7:30 pm

John Adams - Road Movies
Caleb Burhans - In a Distant Place
Louis Andriessen - Workers Union
Tyondai Braxton - Selections from Central Market and new compositions

Post-performance discussion with Tyondai Braxton and Ronen Givony

March 7, 2011 marked a brave direction for Lincoln Center’s Tully Scope Festival with an evening of music exclusively by composers who are (gasp!) still alive. This concert, which featured the music of Tyondai Braxton along with works from John Adams, Caleb Burhans, and Louis Andriessen was an important inclusion in this exciting and eclectic festival. Tully Scope would reinforce the importance of programming living composers two nights later with Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider’s even more daring presentation of works by living composers including the New York premiere of Jacobsen’s “Beloved, do not let me be discouraged” and the World Premiere of Philip Glass’ “Suite for String Quartet from Bent.”

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller