Name: Contemporary Music Ensemble
Start: 2024-02-09T19:30:00
Location: Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

The ensemble’s first concert of the winter quarter features the Chicago premiere of Nina Shekhar’s Turn Your Feet Around. In the composer’s words, the work “brings the nightclub to the concert hall. Using deconstructed and warped fragments of the ever fabulous Gloria Estefan’s 'Get On Your Feet' (1989), musicians have a chance to reconnect with their own physicality by dancing to wild reimagined grooves and ‘80s-style drum-beats.” Wang Lu’s Cross-Around, commissioned by the Montreal-based group Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, explores the intersections of the many types of events in the universe and the ways in which they play off each other. Also on the program are two world premieres by Bienen student composers Apsara Balamurugan and Oliver Mann. 