Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for 10 Instruments and Voice (2010)

Fri, Sep 12, 7:00 p.m.
MoMA, Floor 4, Studio
The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio

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Taking inspiration from a shared chord Stephen Prina detected in Anton Webern’s Concerto Op. 24 for Nine Instruments (1934) and Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” (1967), this work highlights what Prina calls “the intersection of referentiality and non-referentiality.” The artist combines one of his own pop songs, the soundtrack to one of his films, Webern’s concerto, and Joni Mitchell’s song “A Case of You” (1971). As Prina muses, “Early on, I learned from Joni Mitchell that a pop song could also be art. I could have learned that from Robert Schumann but no, I learned it from Joni.”

Previous performances: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (premiere); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; The Kitchen, New York, NY; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwing Wien (mumok), Vienna, Austria

If the event sells out, there will be a first-come, first-served standby line beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the night of the event.