watch excerpts from “The First Rite” premiere (full-screen it for best quality):
 commissioned by Rite of Summer Music Festival The First Rite is a tribute as much to Stravinsky’s monumental ballet “Rite of Spring“ as it is to the timeless folk sources that inspired it. It is an attempt to reinterpret the “Rite” with a band of improvising musicians (“The Riotous Band”) through the folk songs that Stravinsky chose as his source material, as learned through his sketchbooks. Included here are folk songs from Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine, all published in anthologies before 1900. The First Rite is a collection of re-arrangements and re-imaginings primarily based on scholarship by Richard Taruskin and Lawrence Morton, as well as some connections I made on my own. It’s a lot of fun. |
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| CATEGORY | chamber music with vocal |
| INSTRUMENTATION | flexible instrumentation – desired instrumentation: female vocal, clarinets (Bb/A/Eb), trumpet, electric guitar, accordion, hammered dulcimer, percussion, fadolín, bass |
| DURATION | approximately 25 minutes |
| WORLD PREMIERE | August 10, 2013 – Rite of Summer Music Festival (Governors Island, NY) |
| WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMERS | Inna Barmash (Voice), Ljova (fadolín), Peter Hess (clarinet), Ben Holmes (trumpet), Jay Vilnai (electric guitar), Shoko Nagai (accordion), Max ZT (hammered dulcimer), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Pablo Aslan (bass) |
| OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES | coming soon |
| RECORDING | None yet – watch excerpts in the video above! (Best to view full screen in HD) |
| SCORE AVAILABILITY | not available – but we’re available to perform it — [contact me for more info] |
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