Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Imani Winds Perform World Premiere of 'Cane' by Jason Moran in Philadelphia Oct. 24

Imani Winds Legacy Commissioning Project presents CANE by Jason Moran THIS FRIDAY!
October 24th at 7:30 p.m. Perelman Auditorium, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. Through the Legacy Commissioning Project, Imani Winds continue to celebrate their decade anniversary with new works written exclusively for the ensemble. Their third installment in the project is the World Premiere of CANE by Jason Moran. This intriguing musical portrait of Moran’s Louisiana bayou ancestry dates back to his great grand-aunt Marie CoinCoin, an ex-slave, who opened a plantation and bought her family's freedom. CANE is made possible through generous support from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The Kimmel Center. Program will also include: Call (world premiere) by Imani's own Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Ten pieces for wind quintet by Gyorgy Ligeti, speech. and canzone an electro-acoustic work by Valerie Coleman, Terra Incognita by Wayne Shorter, Contrabajissimo by Astor Piazzolla arr. Jeff Scott.

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