IS20202Ithaca Sounding 2020January 30 – February 2, 2020Cornell University: Johnson Museum, Barnes Hall, Lincoln HallIthaca College: Hockett HallBuffalo Street Books Ithaca Sounding 2020 is a multi-day, multi-venue festival and symposium celebrating, exploring, and questioning the traditions of modernist and experimental concert music by Ithacans past and present. It features keyboard works by composers Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Robert Palmer, Ann Silsbee, and David Borden. Connecting and mediating the themes of music in the academy, marginalized art, improvisational performance practice, and queer experimentalism, this interdisciplinary series of events probes the creative and personal histories of some of Ithaca’s most renowned musical personae with concerts, workshops, talks, presentations, and readings. Featured presenters include musicologists Sara Haefeli (Ithaca College), Ellie Hisama (Columbia), and Matthew Mendez (Yale). Featured performers include the acclaimed New York City pianists Joseph Kubera, Adam Tendler, and Cornell alumnus David Friend, the Ithacan composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies, and festival coordinator and pianist Richard Valitutto, a DMA performance practice student in the Cornell Music Department. IS2020 schedule THURSDAY | JAN 3012:30-1:15pm, Cornell University, Lincoln Hall, room B20Concert 1: Midday Music: In Search of Robert Palmera solo piano lecture-recital by Adam Tendler 4:30-6pm, Cornell University, Lincoln Hall, room 124Workshop: Decolonizing the Curriculum: with Sara Haefeli 7-8pm, Cornell University, Johnson Museum LobbyConcert 2: Semi-Occluded Vocal TractRichard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’s hour-long work SOVT (2017) for solo prepared piano FRIDAY | JAN 3110am-12noon, Cornell University, Lincoln Hall, room 124Panel: Listening Locally: Intersectionality and Contemporary Musica discussion on festival themeswith Ellie Hisama, Matthew Mendez, Frederick Cruz Nowell, and Isaac Jean-François 5-6:30pm, Ithaca College, Whalen Center for Music, Iger Lecture HallLecture: “A Persistent Obsession with Identity”with composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies, hosted by Sara Haefeli 8pm, Cornell University, Barnes HallConcert 3: Letters, Stories, and Journeys for 1 & 2 Pianossolos and duos by Julius Eastman, Ann Silsbee, David Borden, and Robert Palmer SATURDAY | FEB 110am-12noon, Cornell University, Lincoln Hall, room B21Lecture: Julius Eastman’s Heterological Perspectives and Queer Practicespaper presentations by Ellie Hisama (Columbia) and Matthew Mendez (Yale) 2-3pm, Cornell University, Lincoln Hall, room B20Concert 4: “That Which is Fundamental”: Julius Eastman works for 4 pianosperformed by Joseph Kubera, Adam Tendler, David Friend, and Richard Valitutto 7pm, Ithaca College, Whalen Center for Music, Hockett HallConcert 5: Festival Finale | Julius Eastman: Joy Boy / Femenine— preconcert lecture at 6pm by Ellie Hisama SUNDAY | FEB 212-2pm, Buffalo Street BooksReading: Poems and Memoirs by Musicians (who also Write)poems by Ann Silsbee and memoirs of David Borden and Adam Tendler IS2020 thanks the following co-sponsors and co-presenters:Cornell Center for Historical KeyboardsCornell Department of MusicCornell Council for the ArtsCornell Society for the HumanitiesJohnson Museum of ArtCentral New York Humanities CorridorIthaca College School of MusicBuffalo Street Books
