Music: Oracle Hysterical with New Vintage Baroque
What happens when fate separates a work from its creator? What meaning is gained or lost from a piece devoid of a clear history? In this concert, members of New Vintage Baroque wade into the ambiguous territory of anonymous, misattributed, and spurious works. Accompanying them on this journey will be the composing-singing-bards of Oracle Hysterical, writing companion pieces to the Passionate Pilgrim, an anonymous anthology of 20 poems once attributed to one “W. Shakespeare.” Featuring new works by Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole, and Majel Connery.
(Works not listed in program order)
Sonata a Quatour Stromenti in B-flat major, attrib. George Frideric HandelQuartet in D-minor, TWV 43:d3, Georg Philipp Telemann (formerly Handel)Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon in C-minor, attrib. Handel“The Passionate Pilgrim” (premieres)Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole, and Majel Connery
Whitebox Art Center
329 Broome Street, NYC
(Between Bowery and Chrystie)
Friday, May 8, 2015, 7:30pm
About Oracle Hysterical
The Oracle Hysterical is Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole and Majel Connery. A book club and a band, OH is devoted to literature recounted through music. Its genre-crossing body of work explores new ways of narrating stories through chamber, folk and orchestral music, hip hop and opera. OH has created and performed retellings of Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, Grimm’s folktales, Euripides’ Hecuba, Melville’s Billy Budd, and other stories. Its collaborators include the Chicago Composers Orchestra, New Vintage Baroque, the Metropolis Ensemble, the Franklin Quartet, Washington Square Winds, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, where they were Spotlight Artists in 2011.
