American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
The Village, long home to many musical innovators, has always pushed the boundaries of arts, activism, and ideas. This year, The Village Trip is proud to welcome musical scholars and composers from twelve countries to give talks, demonstrations, lecture recitals and concerts touching on American Primitive and those "inventors of genius" who changed the conversation. Come be part of it.
Microtonal Village Conference, hosted by composer Agustรญn Castilla-รvila American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Composers and musicologists from around the world gather to present their music and thoughts on the microtonality of American Primitive and other new directions, with attention to developments in Greenwich Village through visionaries like Cage, Harrison and Partch. Agustรญn Castilla-รvilaโa tireless advocate for composers around the world who are exploring new and old tuning systems, and President of the Ekmelic Society of Salzburgโwill preside.
Framing the Village: Identity
Exhibition until Sept 28
Moshava Art
45 W 8th Street, Second Floor, New York
The third annual Village Trip art show, curated by long-time Village artist Marc Kehoe. This yearโs group exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photography powerfully explores notions of identity.
Monday to Saturday 2pm - 5pm
Meet Teatro Cuatro
Exhibition until Sept 30
La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio
73 Avenue C, New York
La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio presents a multimedia journey back to the East Village of the 1970s. where you will learn about Teatro Quatro, a street youth theater group, founded at Mobilization for Youth (MFY), a federally funded antipoverty program on East 4th Street.
Thursday to Saturday 2pm - 7pm and by appointment
Beatnik Greenwich Village, Walking Tour
Stumpdown Coffee Corner of West 8th & MacDougal Streets, New YorkStraighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapanoโs walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!
Janis Siegel and Friends: Something to Live For โ Celebrating the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Blue Note 31 West 3rd Street, New YorkThe music of Edward Kennedy Ellington and William Thomas Strayhorn has long been a staple of both the Great American Songbook and the jazz lexicon. This program of lovingly curated music contains some cherished classics, such as โMood Indigo,โ โPrelude to A Kiss,โ and โTake The โAโ Train,โ but also delves into some of the "deeper cuts" like โStar-Crossed Lovers,โ โAbsinthe (Lament for An Orchid),โ and โJohnny Come Lately.โ
Genius & Invention: Schoenberg, Ives, Cage & Harrison โ An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New YorkCelebrating ground-breaking composers Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives at 150 with the Hayley/Laufer duoโs stunning interpretation of the lushly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Ivesโ violin and piano sonata. Plus Varied Trio and early keyboard music by unlikely Schoenberg students ย Lou Harrison and John Cage.ย
Bob Dylanโs Village Trip: An Evening of Songs and Stories
Cafรฉ Wha? 115 MacDougal St, New YorkโThose early days in the Village were great,โ Bob Dylan told his biographer Robert Shelton around 1970, shortly after he had moved into his townhouse on MacDougal Street, trying to recreate the magic of the early 1960s, when there was โmusic in the cafes at night and revolution in the air.โ
Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New YorkRenowned duo pianists Susan Grace and Steven Beck perform works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl who, with linguist Ray Jackendoff, developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music, an endeavor inspired by Leonard Bernsteinโs Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.