Event

THOMAS BUCKNER, Baritone

2015 is the 50th anniversary of the founding in Chicago of the legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an African-American organization that has had an extraordinary effect on Contemporary music in America and abroad. Baritone Thomas Buckner and pianist Joseph Kubera will perform works written for them by founding members of the AACM over the past 35 years, along with viola, cello, flute and percussion.

Program
Muhal Richard Abrams (words and music): Innerouter Song Cycle (voice and piano)
Amina Claudine Myers (words and music): I Will Not Fear the Unknown (voice and piano)
Roscoe Mitchell: because it's / this / dim (poems by e.e. cummings) (voice and piano)
Roscoe Mitchell: 8/8/88 (piano)
Leroy Jenkins: Dreams of Dreams of Home (text by Anne T. Green) (voice, flute, viola)
Henry Threadgill (words and music): Shape of Things (voice, rototoms, marimba and cello)
Wadada Leo Smith: as yet untitled (words by Henry David Thoreau) (voice, percussion, flute, viola, cello).