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158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY 10012
Jacob Cooper: "Silver Threads" w/ Mellissa Hughes, soprano
5.7.14 Nonesuch releases composer Jacob Cooper’s label debut, Silver Threads, on April 29, 2014. The album comprises a six-song cycle performed by soprano Mellissa Hughes. Cooper wrote the first song, “Silver Threads,” for Hughes in the winter of 2011, setting a haiku attributed to the famous Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō for voice and electronic track. To expand it into a full cycle (all for voice and track), he enlisted five other poets to write text that was inspired by the haiku: Greg Alan Brownderville, Tarfia Faizullah, Kristin Kelly, Dora Malech, and Zach Savich. In celebration of the release of Silver Threads, Hughes and Cooper will perform the entire song cycle at Le Poisson Rouge on May 7, 2014. They will be joined by special guests Eric Beach (percussion), Nathan Koci (synths), and James Moore (guitar). In explaining his use of electronic track on these songs, Cooper says that 19th-century “German lied was associated with the piano because it’d just had a huge surge of popularity, and there was one in every middle-class home—it was essentially a folk instrument at that time.” He continues, “I feel like, in a way, the laptop is so prevalent now that it’s a sort of contemporary folk instrument. The sounds it can create, which we hear all the time on the radio and elsewhere, are the folk sounds of today. So it seemed like the natural accompaniment for a song cycle.” 6:30pm doors // 7:30pm show // All Ages Seated: advance, day of show Standing: advance, day of show For more information, please visit http:// #LiveAtLPR |
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