MUSIC

PRNCX: improvised piano trio & indeterminate composition for strings

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023
6:00 PM

St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

Free
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PRNCX is an open-ended ensemble representing composer Steve Long’s project of mashing up the approaches of Queer composers like John Cage, Julius Eastman, Pauline Oliveros, and Cecil Taylor with the procedures of the big band of the non-Queer Duke Ellington (although his musical partner Billy Strayhorn was). Hmmm. Ellington formed an amazing piano trio with Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Not sure about the indeterminate composition for strings, though.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. Streaming at home, have a Duke: pour 1 oz. each of Cognac, sweet Vermouth, and Amaro Montenegro, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Express an orange twist into the drink and then use the twist as garnish.