A creator, curator, and performer at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics, he is engaged in work that blends opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and protest songs as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance connecting to all of humanity. She is represented by François Ghebaly, Los Angeles and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.ĭavóne Tines, heralded as a “singer of immense power and fervor” and “ of the most powerful voices of our time” by the Los Angeles Times, is a pathbreaking artist whose work encompasses a diverse repertoire, ranging from early music to new commissions by leading composers, and explores the social issues of today. Her work is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. and Human Resources, both in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions including Made in L.A.: A Version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Sculpture Center, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, as well as 356 Mission Rd. She studied sound art, photography, and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and researched the history of communication technologies, acoustics, and computer music at Stanford University. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has been working with the intersection of sound, sculpture, and performance since 2002. "The brazen and brilliant music of Julius Eastman…commands attention: wild, grand, delirious, demonic, an uncontainable personality surging into sound," writes Alex Ross for The New Yorker. In the years since, there has been a steady increase in attention paid to his music and life, punctuated by newly found recordings and manuscripts, worldwide performances and new arrangements of his surviving works, and rising interest from choreographers, scholars, educators, and journalists. Eastman left behind few scores and recordings, and his music lay dormant for decades until a three-CD set of his compositions titled Unjust Malaise was issued in 2005 by New World Records. His death went unreported for eight months, until an obituary by Kyle Gann appeared in the Village Voice. "Black to the fullest, a musician to the fullest, a homosexual to the fullest.”ĭespite his prominence in the artistic and musical community in New York, Eastman died in obscurity in Buffalo, NY. “What I am trying to achieve is to be what I am to the fullest," he said in 1976. A singular figure in New York City's downtown scene of the 1970s and 80s, he also performed at Lincoln Center with Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic, and recorded music by Arthur Russell, Morton Feldman, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Meredith Monk. Julius Eastman (1940–1990) was a composer, conductor, singer, pianist, and choreographer. Masculine by Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Kumi James (BAE BAE), Jonathan Mandabach, and special guestsīoth programs are approximately 70 minutes and performances occur simultaneously. Masculine by Sarah Hennies, performed by ECHOI Julius Eastman: ( Masculine) | (Femenine) is a co-production Monday Evening Concerts and Getty Museum Public Programs.įemenine (1974) by Julius Eastman, performed by ECHOI These new compositions will be staged simultaneously with Eastman's Femenine, performed by Monday Evening Concerts' ECHOI ensemble, in various locations at the Getty Center, replicating the compelling dynamic of the original 1975 event. The commissioned artists include classical vocalist and artist Davóne Tines, experimental composer Sarah Hennies, and visual and sound artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. To fill the void left by this lost piece of music, three unique artists present new works that expound on both the idea of masculinity and the complex and radiant legacy of Julius Eastman-a figure who navigated radically interdisciplinary artistic communities within classical, avant-garde, popular, and underground music. Today, no record or score exists of Eastman's Masculine. This simultaneous presentation placed the audience in a space caught between Masculine and Femenine as they moved between both performances. One ensemble performed Femenine (composer's spelling)-a composition that has been widely rediscovered in recent years as an under-recognized modern masterpiece-inside a gallery, while another ensemble performed a piece titled Masculine outside. In the summer of 1975, composer Julius Eastman (1940–1990) presented two works at a concert held at the Albright Knox Museum of Art in Buffalo, New York. Links to Cultural Heritage Policy Documents.Research Assistance at GCI Information Center.GCI Reference Collection (for materials analysis).Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter.All Getty Research Institute Publications.
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