A Musical Pilgrimage
Sept. 4 & 5 | 4pm – sundown
Take a musical journey through seven short, innovative
musical events scheduled as a walk around the Cornell University Arts Quad.
All events take place on both Sept. 4 & 5 except where noted (for Concerts 3 and 7).
Click here to read Thomas Feng’s “Essay before a walk”
Click on the concert titles below for the full program.
Concert 1
Body Percussion and Voice Theater
4p | Johnson Museum of Art, Appel Lobby
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
MikeDrop Duo (Michael Compitello and Mike Truesdell), body percussion
François Sarhan | Situation 7 (2012)
Kurt Rohde | to sing (2018, rev. 2021)
Georges Aperghis | Retrouvailles (2010)
Concert 2
Fugue: The Sight | a poetic premiere
4:45p | Northwest Corner of Lincoln Hall
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, poet
Desmond Bratton, bass
Concert 3
Keys in Space | new works for pianos
Sept. 4 | 5:20p | Milstein Hall Crit Dome
HereNowHear (Ryan McCullough and Andrew Zhou)
Aida Shirazi | RAGE: Screamed, RAGE: Stolen, RAGE: Silenced (2020)
Laura Cetilia | sense of missing (2020/2021)
Sept. 5| 5:20p | Milstein Hall Crit Dome
Fallingwater (Thomas Feng, Thomas Reeves, Richard Valitutto)
Ann Southam | Commotion Creek (2007)
Thomas Reeves | Fallingwater (2020)
Richard Valitutto | harvest moon meditation (2021)
Concert 4
Movements | for dancers and violin
6p | Klarman Hall, Groos Family Atrium
Rebecca Anderson, violin
Amy Saunder, Antuan Byers, dancers
Caili Quan, choreographer
Jessie Montgomery | Rhapsody no. 2 (2020)
Elizabeth Ogonek | Cradle Dance (2020)
Daniel Bernard Roumain | Filter (1992)
Concert 5
Genre-bending folk duo
6:30p | Sage Chapel
Jones/Butterfield Duo
Jesse Jones, 5-string banjo, mandolin, & octave mandolin
Craig Butterfield, bass
Concert 6
Whalesong at Sunset
7:15p | Libe Slope
Elisabeth Wang, chimesmaster
Annie Lewandowski | Cetus: Life After Life (2018)
Concert 7
A Hootenanny | jazz after dark
Sept. 4 | 8p | A.D. White House, back garden
Electrolyte (Paul Merrill, Peter Chwazik, Simon Bjarning)
Sept. 5 | 8p | A.D. White House, back garden
Fifth Parallel (Rowan Lynch, Frits Marohn, Misha Bjerken)