We neglected to include upcoming performances of music in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village by Vancouver Composer Frank Brickle in a recent Centrepulse, so I’m adding this article to make sure they receive the attention they deserve:
1. The Village Trip Guitar Festival
Sat 10 Sep
St. John’s in the Village
Life Story for solo guitar [2019; North American premiere]
2. Bowers Fader Duo
Sat 17 Sep
St. John’s in the Village
City of Orgies [mezzo-soprano & guitar; Walt Whitman] (2016)
3. The Village and Phil Ochs
Sat 18 Sep
DROM
Image du Village [violin, cello, piano] (2022; world premiere)
4. Village Composers and Stephen Dembski
Sat 24 Sep
Tenri Cultural Institute
The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme
[mezzo, 2 guitars, cello; T. E. Hulme] (2022; world premiere)
5. Bowers Fader Duo
Sun 23 Oct
National Opera Center
Fool Song [W. B. Yeats] [2021; world premiere]
Political Song [traditional] (2021; world premiere]
A Sacred Song [Wallace Stevens] (2020; North American premiere)
Composer Frank Brickle has written more than eighty-five compositions in addition to a number of arrangements and transcriptions. Following studies at Princeton with Milton Babbitt and immersion in the High Modernist School, his earlier pieces employ synthesized and processed sound, while later works were more often written for instruments and voice, adapting and transforming Modernist methods and techniques into a more personal, expansive, intimate, and inviting dialect.