Cloud's Break For Early Spring-Time Celebration Of 21st Century Women Composers In Nation's Capital

Oni Buchanan’s "In the Moment: Women Composers of the 21st Century" program today at noon at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. FREE

Missy Mazzoli, Orizzonte (2004, for piano and tape)
Cindy Cox, Hierosgamos III, IV, V (2003)
Joan Tower, Throbbing Still (2000)
Mei-Fang Lin, Interaction (2001, for piano and tape)
Adina Izarra, Cónclave (2003)
Annie Gosfield, The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch (2006)

Ms. Buchanan’s concert programming is often interdisciplinary in nature, directly engaging the intimate connections between music and the visual arts, music and poetry, music and dance. She also programs adventurous contemporary works alongside established repertoire, bringing works from disparate centuries into fascinating conversation. Her most current performance project is her ongoing concert series, “In the Moment: Women Composers of the 21st Century,” the first program of which she will premiere this spring at such venues as the National Gallery of Art and UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).

Header credit: Aleksandra Mir First Woman on the Moon, 1999–. Video (00:12:00), flag, publicity stills, and open-ended archive originating from the live event on August 28, 1999, produced by Casco Projects, Utrecht, on location in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, . Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director's Council and Executive Committee Members: Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, Ruth Baum, Edythe Broad, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Elaine Terner Cooper, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Shirley Fiterman, Laurence Graff, Nicki Harris, Dakis Joannou, Rachel Lehmann, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Tonino Perna, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, Simonetta Seragnoli, Cathie Shriro, David Teiger, Ginny Williams, and Elliot K. Wolk, and Sustaining Members: Linda Fischbach, Beatrice Habermann, and Cargill and Donna MacMillan 2005.62. © Aleksandra Mir