Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri curates an evening of Nightcap, at the NY Philharmonic’s cabaret-style series of music and conversation in the new Sidewalk Studio. Hosted by Nadia Sirota, Zosha will be joined by collaborators Anna Webber (saxophonist, flutist, and composer of avant-garde jazz), Alicia Hall Moran (mezzo-soprano), Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez (percussion), and Sam Yulsman (piano). Program to include works by Di Castri, Pinsky/Moran, Webber, Hugo Morales Murguia, Yulsman, and Tom Waits.

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PROGRAM:
Di Castri: This is the moment you long for (voice and prepared timpani)

Alicia Hall Moran, Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez

Text by Tash Aw

Hugo Morales Murguía: Modes of Assisted Ventilation (intubated flute and electronics)

Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez

Moran: Ginza Samba (voice, saxophone, and improvised percussion)

Alicia Hall Moran, Anna Webber, Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez

Text by Robert Pinsky

Webber: Idiom VII (solo saxophone)

Anna Webber

Yulsman: Return to the Sea: House of Sands (an excerpt from the Encyclopedia of Longing (trio and electronics)

Samuel Fibich Yulsman, Anna Webber, Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez

Text by Édouard Glissant, transl. Jeff Humphries

Di Castri/Espinosa: how many bodies have we to pass through (solo percussion)

Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez

Tom Waits: covers of" “Temptation” and “Clap Hands” (quartet)

Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez, Alicia Hall Moran, Anna Webber, Samuel Fibich Yulsman