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SUMMARY:World Premiere of "Dark Sky" at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:  \nLIVESTREAM LINK: \nWells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research – YouTube \n6:45 EDT Pre-Concert Talk\n7:30 EDT pm Concert \nScroll down to read the poem “The Stars Beyond the Stars” by Brandon Krieg\ncommissioned by Jenni to set in Dark Sky. \n \nDeath Valley Symphony: Dark Sky\nMusic by Jenni Brandon\nPoem by Brandon Krieg \n  \nWorld Premieres at Kutztown University\, Pennsylvania with Heartland Marimba\, Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble\, Kutztown University Choirs\nApril 8\, 2024: Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research\nApril 9\, 2024: Georgian Room\, Old Main Building\, Kutztown University \nFor Tickets and LIVESTREAM information\, visit Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research – Resonators Echo Spring Festival (kucmpr.org) \nDark Sky – a new work by California composer Jenni Brandon for Marimba Quartet\, Percussion Ensemble\, SATB choir and Piano explores the beauty of Death Valley National Park’s pristine dark skies using original poetry by Brandon Krieg\, Kutztown University Professor of English and Poetry. Part of a concert-length work\, this movement “Dark Sky” is a collaboration between Heartland Marimba Quartet\, Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble\, Kutztown University Choirs\, with immersive video created for the performances by KU professor Dale Parsons. \nWith some of the darkest night skies in the United States\, Death Valley is designated as a “Dark Sky Park” and offers a view of celestial objects often not visible in any other part of the world. Using the colors of the ensemble\, this work will take the audience on a journey through the world’s hottest place on Earth illuminated by the light of stars to see the parks many animals\, badlands\, sand dunes\, multi-hued hills and craters illuminated by the light of the night sky\, and to look beyond into the vast universe. \nPremieres during the 2023-2024 season include two performances at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania to celebrate the inaugural year of the Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research at Kutztown University. \nHeartland Marimba will also perform two additional movements from Death Valley Symphony:\n1. Badwater Basin for Marimba Quartet\n2. Clay Pipes and Spiral Shells for two marimbas and narrator (U.S. Premiere) \nAdditional movements of this work are commissioned and premiered by Heartland Marimba Quartet and Duo Lin-Lynn. The work “Clay Pipes and Spiral Shells” for marimba duo with narrator (with poetry by Brandon Krieg) will appear on Duo Lin-Lynn’s upcoming album release in 2024. \n\nThe Stars Beyond the Stars  \nPoem by Brandon Krieg  \n  \nGo to the lowest place with me  \nI invite you lower  \nAll ways will pass through if we go lower  \nall the lightnings we can bear  \nwill write themselves on a floor of salt   \nfanning outward into wing-vein patterns\,   \ninto the vein patterns in the transparent delicate skin  \nof ears that flicker at footfalls\,  \nand we will feel the forkings of our blood  \nat the ankle and at the wrist  \n  \nHere Ocean the source of all blood was   \nbefore us\, and couldn’t wait  \nlike all things riding the blue fire down can’t wait  \nand got up and walked off  \nin blackfly and woodrat and wind  \n  \nCome down from the incandescent sick thrones\,   \nYou have hidden so long under the small lights  \nCome down under the big lights now and unhide   \nSee what you thought your self was   \nfrom the numberless points of night  \nWith the tips of the spiny saltbush   \nwith the tips of the creosote   \ndisguised in its wind-caked salts as constant lightning  \nlet us receive  \nthe stars beyond the stars  \n  \nBeyond is all through us now pouring forth  \nBeyond is all through us now pouring  \nCome down where numbers dissolve   \nRelax your face clenched from its ledgers  \nThe salt flat spider’s web is a mirror   \nheld up to sky’s mirror  \ndimensioning this one great room  \nthat flows around the salamander’s pulse   \nthis room whose walls are sweltering waves  \nof liquid dolomite rising up   \nrippling around the pool where the kit fox drinks  \n  \nThere are no father tongues  \nthere are feather tongues that taste air  \nHear hummingbird’s wings tasting air   \nand become deliciously plural   \nand feel in your pulse all the pulses  \nthat will ramify the salt beneath your feet  \nThe sky is a membrane vascular with light   \nLet us take transfusion the old way   \nthe way water wicks from thistle’s involucre   \nthrough the veins in a swallowtail’s wing  \nthe way Adrienne and Adrianne sang  \n  \nWhat are these close dark spirals   \nrhyming the far light spirals\,   \nmaking eddies where time spools out of itself?  \nIt is bats bearing up our blood   \nlifted into their milk by mosquitoes   \nthey carry to the mouths of the measureless   \n  \nDown here embodiment is breaking  \nThe bone core is grinding its gears down  \nCome effervesce with me  \nlet the rivers of the earth wick their way   \nthrough our bodies back to shimmering overall   \nand drop back again to new forms  \n  \nTo whatever larger is   \nTo whatever listening is   \nthrough the I’s dissolves   \nTo whatever larger is listening  \nthrough the I gone plural   \nthe I gone hurting its plural hurts  \nthrough fathomless spirals  \ntraceries in sand  \nwind writes and revises  \nHere is a thread  \nof sicklight vibrating  \nlike a wave-wall of liquid granite rising vibrating  \nlike a tuning fork struck  \nby pulse’s lightning  \nLet us reside in resonance  \nto honor all becomings  \nto honor is to laugh with creosote   \nat its trick of constant lightning   \n  \nlightning is lightning   \nbecause it vanishes  \n  \n“THE STARS BEYOND THE STARS” © 2023 Brandon Krieg. Used with permission. For more poems by Brandon Krieg visit www.brandonkrieg.com  \n 
URL:https://jennibrandontest.com/event/world-premiere-of-dark-sky-at-kutztown-university-in-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research\, Kutztown\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:World Premiere of "Dark Sky" at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Death Valley Symphony: Dark Sky\nMusic by Jenni Brandon\nPoem by Brandon Krieg \n  \nWorld Premieres at Kutztown University\, Pennsylvania with Heartland Marimba\, Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble\, Kutztown University Choirs\nApril 8\, 2024: Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research\nApril 9\, 2024: Georgian Room\, Old Main Building\, Kutztown University \nFor Tickets and LIVESTREAM information\, visit Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research – Resonators Echo Spring Festival (kucmpr.org) \nDark Sky – a new work by California composer Jenni Brandon for Marimba Quartet\, Percussion Ensemble\, SATB choir and Piano explores the beauty of Death Valley National Park’s pristine dark skies using original poetry by Brandon Krieg\, Kutztown University Professor of English and Poetry. Part of a concert-length work\, this movement “Dark Sky” is a collaboration between Heartland Marimba Quartet\, Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble\, Kutztown University Choirs\, with immersive video created for the performances by KU professor Dale Parsons. \nWith some of the darkest night skies in the United States\, Death Valley is designated as a “Dark Sky Park” and offers a view of celestial objects often not visible in any other part of the world. Using the colors of the ensemble\, this work will take the audience on a journey through the world’s hottest place on Earth illuminated by the light of stars to see the parks many animals\, badlands\, sand dunes\, multi-hued hills and craters illuminated by the light of the night sky\, and to look beyond into the vast universe. \nPremieres during the 2023-2024 season include two performances at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania to celebrate the inaugural year of the Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research at Kutztown University. \nAdditional movements of this work are commissioned and premiered by Heartland Marimba Quartet and Duo Lin-Lynn. The work “Clay Pipes and Spiral Shells” for marimba duo with narrator (with poetry by Brandon Krieg) will appear on Duo Lin-Lynn’s upcoming album release in 2024.
URL:https://jennibrandontest.com/event/18712/
LOCATION:Schaeffer Auditorium\, Kutztown University\, 15229 Kutztown Rd.\, Kutztown\, 19530\, United States
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