PASSOVER: THE MUSIC OF RICK BURKHARDT
A new music-theater work by writer-composer Rick Burkhardt written specifically for thingNY’s unique blend of chamber music, theatre and improvisation, PASSOVER explores the vocalizing instrumentalist using disjointed modes of storytelling.
thingNY, PASSOVER is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking performers, seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend's escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity.
Of Burkhardt's award-winning table-top music-theater piece The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving, for three speaking percussionists. Time Out New York declared that Hymn "has taught us to listen to the conversation in several keys, and the virtuosic performers play them all—the troubling bassline of violence, the abrasive tenor of self-righteousness, and, every now and then, the clear, bright treble of a really funny joke."
Passover by Rick Burkhardt [*thingNY commission]
The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving by Rick Burkhardt
*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program with generous funding provided by
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
BRING THIS PROGRAM TO YOUR VENUE:
1 hour
Two large tables
Adjustable lighting
Six music stands
The musicians of thingNY are also available for talkbacks and workshops
thingNY, PASSOVER is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking performers, seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend's escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity.
Of Burkhardt's award-winning table-top music-theater piece The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving, for three speaking percussionists. Time Out New York declared that Hymn "has taught us to listen to the conversation in several keys, and the virtuosic performers play them all—the troubling bassline of violence, the abrasive tenor of self-righteousness, and, every now and then, the clear, bright treble of a really funny joke."
Passover by Rick Burkhardt [*thingNY commission]
The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving by Rick Burkhardt
*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program with generous funding provided by
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
BRING THIS PROGRAM TO YOUR VENUE:
1 hour
Two large tables
Adjustable lighting
Six music stands
The musicians of thingNY are also available for talkbacks and workshops