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Sarah Rothenberg performs 'For Julius Eastman' by Tyshawn Sorey

  • August 23, 2025 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
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Description

Saturday, August 23
A private concert for friends, volunteers, and supporters of PS21
 

4:30 pm doors
5 pm concert
6 pm dinner & discussion
 

PS21 is thrilled to invite our volunteers and supporters to join us on stage for an intimate performance of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey’s major new piano work, For Julius Eastman, performed by trailblazing pianist Sarah Rothenberg.
 

Sorey and Rothenberg’s deep musical relationship grew out of their work together on the DACAMERA-Rothko Chapel commission of Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), and it was during their performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory that Sorey first conceived of this piece. The intensity and hyper-sensitivity of Sorey’s music corresponds to Rothenberg’s pianism, and this expansive new solo work probes emotional depths and upends our sense of time.
 

In advance of recording this work, Rothenberg will perform with the audience seated on stage, surrounding the piano, followed by dinner and discussion with the artist.
 

We hope you will join us for this intimate and powerful presentation of a work by one of the most original musical voices of our time. For those who experienced Julius Eastman’s work in July, when Black Box Ensemble performed Femenine in collaboration with Kyle Marshall Choreography, as well as Buddha and Joy Boy, this will be an especially resonant performance.
 

Spots are limited, so please RSVP to confirm your attendance and kindly indicate whether you’ll be staying for dinner.
 

There are sections of For Julius Eastman which feel deeply haunted by voices of the past, by the painful layers of history we do not see. Buried stories wordlessly find their voice: this is music that bears witness to centuries. At times, in just one note we can hear the fragility of a human life.
 

“Her virtuosic and flawless technique is fully given to every nuance and breath in the score, as if she is one with the music—a vessel for the healing sounds of Sorey’s composition.”  –Glasstire, Houston

Date & Time

Sat, Aug 23, 2025 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
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A vibrant center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley, PS21 “presents work that challenges and invites” (The New York Times): adventurous productions by leading and emerging American and international artists in music, dance, and theater, and visionaries creating entirely new genres. On our open-air Pavilion Theater stage, across our expansive, unspoiled grounds, and in the diverse surrounding communities, PS21 cultivates and presents productions that transcend aesthetic boundaries and revitalize existing artistic languages and grammars. Throughout the year, we host developmental residencies for dancers, musicians, actors, and creators of original, even unclassifiable new work. Rooted in community collaboration, PS21’s programming engages creatively with critical global and social issues. It is a mecca for innovative and original artistic voices, a destination for performance that can be experienced nowhere else in the region. PS21’s Pavilion Theater is a green-energy marvel surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled meadows, trails, and woodlands that are a haven to wildlife and visitors across the region.  Integrated into our unspoiled campus, the theater embodies our commitments to the public: open, inviting, and optimized for their enjoyment and encouraging citizen expression and participation.

 

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