Phil Kline will lead a special Movado Hour NYFOS Next program at BAC on May 3
THE MOVADO HOUR
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Tuesday, May 3, 7:00
Admission: free with advance RSVP
212-868-4444
www.bacnyc.org
Downtown avant-garde composer Phil Kline, the man behind the annual Christmas procession “Unsilent Night,” has headed such collaborative projects as “Zippo Songs” and “John the Revelator” and has written experimental music for dance and theater. On May 3, he’ll be at the Baryshnikov Arts Center for a free New York Festival of Song NYFOS Next chamber music presentation he has put together with Steven Blier, Michael Barrett, and Benjamin Sosland. Part of BAC’s Movado Hour series, the evening will consist of David Lang’s “I Had No Reason,” “I Want to Live,” and “I Found My Enemy’s Ox,” Meredith Monk’s “Prayer II,” Corey Dargel’s “Toes,” “Hooked for Life,” and “Sincerely Yours,” and Elliott Sharp’s “No Time Like the Stranger.” Kline will also perform his own compositions “Somewhere Around Barstow,” “A Strange World,” “Football Season Is Over,” and “To Make a Prairie,” the first three of which feature text by Hunter S. Thompson, the fourth by Emily Dickinson. The cast includes sopranos Katherine Dain and Lauren Worsham, bass Matt Boehler, and vocalists Dargel and Carla Jablonski, with Ashley Bathgate on cello, Todd Reynolds on violin, and Kathleen Supové and Michael Barrett on piano.