Echosystem: Protecting Our Water - The 6th Annual Ensemble Pi Peace Project Concert

The Cooper Union’s Great Hall
7 East 7th St. at Third Ave., NYC

"Fiery and emotive" -- The New York Times

• George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
• Kristin Norderval’s Echo Systems (World Premiere, 2011), composed in response to both the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the 1989 sinking of the Exxon Valdez tanker in Alaska.
• Pete Seeger's classic song Rainbow Race in a new arrangement by Karl Kramer (2011)
• Christopher Kaufman’s Hudson Valley (2010), capturing the world of the Hudson River Valley through music and film footage, including the dangers of natural gas drilling.

Introduction by Karen Charman, award-winning independent investigative journalist and member of Catskills Heritage Association

Performers: Kristin Norderval, voice and laptop; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Idith Meshulam, piano; Clair Bryant, cello; Karl Kramer, French horn; Barry Crawford, flute; and Nick Gallas, clarinet.

$15 ($10 for students and seniors) at the door

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