SACRED-PROFANE
Sacred-Profane explores a range of human polarity, traveling from stately composure to total abandonment. Through a series of concert pieces and fashion by Jenny Lai's experimental womenswear brand NOT, the concert pulls at loose strings until it unravels in a fitful explosion of profanity. Sacred-Profane is directed by Sugar Vendil and features new arrangements of Johannes Ockeghem's Missa Prolationum - Kyrie by Marina Kifferstein, music by Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Vincent Calianno’s Sororatorio: A Cuntata, a new song cycle inspired by the celebrated and profane Delta Gamma sorority email that went viral in 2013.
Sororatorio premiered at the first performance of Sacred-Profane. The concert took place over two nights on April 9 & 10, 2015 to a sold-out audience at the Clemente Soto Velez Flamboyan Theater in New York City.
EXCERPTS
INSTRUMENTATION
PROGRAM
Soprano, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, Otamatone, glockenspiel, vuvuzelas, kick or bass drum
I. Kyrie - Missa Prolationum - Kyrie - Johannes Ockeghem arr. Marina Kifferstein
Chrysalis - Sarah Kirkland Snider
II. Massive/Missive - Ockeghem-Kifferstein
Void by Nina Young
Meditation by Nina Young
III. Erota/Errata - Ockeghem-Kifferstein
Sororatorio: a Cuntata - Vincent Calianno (premiere)
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PRESS
"...bringing a refreshing edge to the widely conservative genre...NCP's work makes a stage for finding nuance in rigid categories." - VICE
"Classical music’s got an edge these days, and we have the Nouveau Classical Project to thank for that." - MILK MADE
"NCP...particularly vocalist Amanda Gregory—deserve props for the premiere performance..." - NEW MUSIC BOX
SOCIAL CAMPAIGN BY LOWER EAST STUDIOS
Photographer: Nina Robinson
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