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Adult: $10
Students with ID: $10
Seniors 65 and over: $10
Free for All Members
Free for kids under 16

Price of ticket includes later 8:30 performance with the Jon Irabagon Threedom Trio

Sonic Smithy is both a student musical ensemble and a creative sound workshop devoted exclusively to the living music and great musicians of our time and place. (2011, NYC, USA) The ensemble encourages students to explore many styles of music composition, performance and improvisation. Sonic Smithy aims to encourage students to take advantage of their creative skills as arrangers and improvisers at any point in their journey toward technical mastery of their instruments, with the understanding that an awareness of their expressive needs will drive their practice and inspire the acquisition of new skills and artistic dreams. The ensemble aims to emphasize this creative process in order to foster an open attitude about the many ways music can be conceived, explored, composed and performed, at any level, and in any genre.

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$10 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



Coincidents is the final opera by renowned composer, improviser, and violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins. Through song, documentary footage, interviews, and video art, the opera explores whether two people from radically different worlds -- Jenkins, a son of the Great Migration who grew up in the hustle of Chicago, and Griffin, who grew up in Wales during the German air raids of WWII -- could possibly be related.



Jenkins and Griffin use the lens of personal biographic details to look at universal issues of human identity and the great diasporas of history and the present day, the assumption or infliction of a new identity as a necessary adaptation to place, and the search for sustaining connections - to our ancestors and to each other.



Coincidents, A New Opera

Music: Leroy Jenkins

Libretto & Video: Mary Griffin

Graphics, Video & Video Design: Hisao Ihara

Musical Direction/piano: Myra Melford

Vocal Direction: Chris Berg

Singers: Diana Solomon Glover, Steven Herring, Robert Hughes, Peter Stewart

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$10 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



Coincidents is the final opera by renowned composer, improviser, and violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins. Through song, documentary footage, interviews, and video art, the opera explores whether two people from radically different worlds -- Jenkins, a son of the Great Migration who grew up in the hustle of Chicago, and Griffin, who grew up in Wales during the German air raids of WWII -- could possibly be related.



Jenkins and Griffin use the lens of personal biographic details to look at universal issues of human identity and the great diasporas of history and the present day, the assumption or infliction of a new identity as a necessary adaptation to place, and the search for sustaining connections - to our ancestors and to each other.



Coincidents, A New Opera

Music: Leroy Jenkins

Libretto & Video: Mary Griffin

Graphics, Video & Video Design: Hisao Ihara

Musical Direction/piano: Myra Melford

Vocal Direction: Chris Berg

Singers: Diana Solomon Glover, Steven Herring, Robert Hughes, Peter Stewart

Full Description:

$10 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



Coincidents is the final opera by renowned composer, improviser, and violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins. Through song, documentary footage, interviews, and video art, the opera explores whether two people from radically different worlds -- Jenkins, a son of the Great Migration who grew up in the hustle of Chicago, and Griffin, who grew up in Wales during the German air raids of WWII -- could possibly be related.



Jenkins and Griffin use the lens of personal biographic details to look at universal issues of human identity and the great diasporas of history and the present day, the assumption or infliction of a new identity as a necessary adaptation to place, and the search for sustaining connections - to our ancestors and to each other.



Coincidents, A New Opera

Music: Leroy Jenkins

Libretto & Video: Mary Griffin

Graphics, Video & Video Design: Hisao Ihara

Musical Direction/piano: Myra Melford

Vocal Direction: Chris Berg

Singers: Diana Solomon Glover, Steven Herring, Robert Hughes, Peter Stewart

Full Description:

$10 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



Coincidents is the final opera by renowned composer, improviser, and violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins. Through song, documentary footage, interviews, and video art, the opera explores whether two people from radically different worlds -- Jenkins, a son of the Great Migration who grew up in the hustle of Chicago, and Griffin, who grew up in Wales during the German air raids of WWII -- could possibly be related.



Jenkins and Griffin use the lens of personal biographic details to look at universal issues of human identity and the great diasporas of history and the present day, the assumption or infliction of a new identity as a necessary adaptation to place, and the search for sustaining connections - to our ancestors and to each other.



Coincidents, A New Opera

Music: Leroy Jenkins

Libretto & Video: Mary Griffin

Graphics, Video & Video Design: Hisao Ihara

Musical Direction/piano: Myra Melford

Vocal Direction: Chris Berg

Singers: Diana Solomon Glover, Steven Herring, Robert Hughes, Peter Stewart

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"A rare New York appearance playing his much hailed solo violin concert. A true American master, Jenkins bridges the spiritual, blues and jazz worlds with classical music as both performer and composer. "

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"Jenkins2 is a dramatic cantata for live performance drawing on the artists� personal and familial biographies � African American and Welsh. Griffin grew up in Wales; her mother�s maiden name was Jenkins. Based on the idea that, sharing a Welsh surname, the librettist and composer/violinist might also share a common slave-owner ancestor they launched this project focusing on the cultural and political histories of their families."

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Solo violin.