Whitney Museum of American Art
at Altria 120 Park Av. at 42nd St                        

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

premieres:

SINCE
soundtrack for a new choreogrpahy by Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa
20 March premiere by Het Nationale Ballet Muziektheater Amsterdam 20.15
+ performances on 22,23, 25, 29 March, 4,5,6,7 April 2007


GRAB IT! XL
new arrangement by Marco C. de Bruijn
for Combustion Chamber
cond. Rutger van Leyden
Dutch tour 21,28 Feb / 1,6,11,14 March 2007
see agenda for more details

WHITE FLAG
suite for rock band and soundtrack
about the Iraq War
Electric Kompany 4-5-2007 at the JacobTV festival ( see below)

BELIEVER
for baritone saxophone and boombox
by Willem van Merwijk
20-5-2007 'Jacob's Boombox',
Grote Zaal Muziekgebouw Amsterdam

DOGGY STEPS
new work for violin, cello, harpsichord and soundtrack
for Annelie de Man c.s.
premiere Deutschland Radio August 2007

new works with boombox written in 2006:
I WAS LIKE WOW
for trombone (Jörgen van Rijen)

BUKU
for alto sax (Arno Bornkamp)
European premiere 7-7-06 at the World Sax Congress Ljubjana Slovenia
US premiere by Chris Hemingway 3-5-2007
available for sale as of 20-5-2007

 

May 2,3, 4 2007: JacobTV in New York City

Grab It! The Music of JacobTV
A three dayfestival of dance, music, video, and intermedia work

Jacob TV’s work possesses explosive strength and raw energy combined with extraordinarily
intricate architectural design. Preoccupied with American mass media and world events, JacobTV
draws raw material from those sources. He has had a huge impact on the European music scene
in the past decade, but is far less known in the United States. This three-day festival is the first
large-scale examination of his music in the US.


World Premiere: Pitch Black with Miro Dance Theatre and PRISM Saxophone Quartet
Wednesday, May 2 - 8 pm
Philadelphia-based Miro Dance Theatre and PRISM Saxophone Quartet perform the world premiere
of Pitch Black, an evening-length multimedia work combining a video installation by Tobin Rothlein
and choreography by Amanda Miller, set to six of Jacob TV’s scores for saxophones and boombox:
Pitch Black, Jesus is coming, Grab it!, The Garden of Love, Postnuclear Winterscenario No.10 and Billie.

Artists on Art: JacobTV and America
Thursday, May 3 - 8 pm
The composer in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, editor of NewMusicBox.com plus:
The official presentation of the 3 newly released CD/DVD box sets on the Basta label, containing
Jacob TV’s orchestral music, boombox works, and chamber music.
including 2 special performances by the New Century Quartet: Heartbreakers, a jazz suite based on
dialogues and oneliners from American talk shows, with videos by Dutch Veejay Danielle Kwaaitaal.
Buku for alto sax and boombox, the American premiere by Chris Hemingway of this tribute to 3 giants
of jazz: Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and Art Pepper. Reception!


Grab It! Instrumental Work by JacobTV
Friday, May 4 - 8 pm
Margaret Lancaster, flute; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Katherine Supové, piano; the Meehan-Perkins Percussion Duo
and the band Electric Kompany perform the radical instrumental/boombox works of JacobTV, including Grab It!,
Lipstick, Tatatata, Goldrush, and The Body of Your Dreams. Also featuring the world premiere of White Flag,
a new piece incorporating sounds the Iraq war by Electric Kompany.

Admission to the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis;
reservations are not accepted. For more information, please visit www.whitney.org/live.
Funding for this program is provided by The New York State Music Fund, established by the
New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria is funded by Altria Group, Inc.

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