ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF "ALIEN STORIES" - An Album of Co-commissioned Music from the CHC Midday Music Festival

Due to the pandemic, we were not able to present our 2020 Carnegie Hill Concerts season. Instead, we created a unique opportunity to co-commission five young Black composers in collaboration with Violin Duo, String Noise for the Midday Music Festival last August. String Noise is composed of Conrad Harris and  Pauline Kim Harris, both members of Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players. Pauline is also co-curator of the series and a member of the concert series board. 

One of the midday concerts was featured on The Violin Channel NEW MUSIC TUESDAY Series in the fall. You can view it here.

Recently, another featured festival composer, Anaïs Maviel, was awarded the 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship.

All videos from the CHC Midday Music Festival, which include performances by five additional inspiring artists, can now be viewed on our series Vimeo page. 

Carnegie Hill Concerts is delighted to announce that all five co-commissioned compositions from the festival will be released as a full length album on Friday, March 26 on the Infrequent Seams label. And title track "Alien Stories" is available now on BANDCAMP! 

You can read more about the track below.

Carnegie Hill Concerts will be hosting the online release event on March 26 between 4-6PM, and we invite you to register here so you can join us!

Be sure to stay tuned for our 2021 season be announced in March! 

Sincerely,
Nicholas Zork and Pauline Kim Harris, Co-curators
www.carnegiehillconcerts.org

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ALIEN STORIES:

Celebrated violin duo String Noise is recognized for their distinct blend of disparate genres, from arrangements of songs by punk legends to conceptual minimalist treatises by Alvin Lucier. An optimistic development from the global health pandemic and the increased attention on human rights issues and racial equality that came about through public embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement, this latest project highlights the work of five young black composers based in New York City.

From the experimental works of Lester St. Louis and Jessie Cox to the jazz and folk elements of the works by Jonathan Finlayson and Anaïs Maviel, to the melodic hockets of Charles Overton’s piece, this album provides an expansive vision of contemporary trends in black notated music.

A visual and conceptual centerpiece for this meeting of artistic expressions is the visual art of Edwin Bethea, and a detail of his 2017 work “The Abyss Of Man” appears on the cover to the album.