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Kitka International Women's Day SGVCC Benefit
Kitka
Friday, March 6th at 8pm
By special arrangement to benefit the SGVCC food bank and other programs
Advance $28, door $35
The San Geronimo Valley Community Center is honored to present what is arguably one of the best vocal ensembles in the United States. This is an unusually intimate venue for Kitka and a great opportunity to see them up close and meet them after the show. Tickets are limited and early purchase is recommended.
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble performs exquisite and unusual repertoire that explores the depth and breadth of female experience in celebration of International Women's Day.
This globally-acclaimed vocal arts ensemble explores songs of love, marriage, work, play, celebration, lamentation, and spiritual longing in both traditional polyphonic and contemporary composed settings. Kitka's unique sound is infused with the lush harmonies, stunning dissonances, asymmetric rhythms, intricate ornamentation, and resonant strength of Eastern European women's ensemble singing. Concert highlights will include songs collected by the ensemble during recent tours and song-catching expeditions in Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, Armenia, Russia, and Ukraine.
Kitka has deep ties to Eastern Europe and has traveled there to perform and collect repertoire many times. In 2002, Kitka joined Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares as "international guests of honor" for this world-renowned choir's 50th Anniversary Gala at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Kitka has released eleven critically acclaimed recordings, nine on its own Diaphonica label, most recently Cradle Songs (2009). Cradle Songs has been named "One of the Top Ten CDs of 2009" by NPR, and one of the "Most Memorable Internationally-Flavored CDs of 2009" by the Los Angeles Times. A frequent guest on national radio shows, Kitka has been featured on nationally syndicated programs such as PRI's The World, A Prairie Home Companion, All Things Considered, On Point, The Story, West Coast Live, Performance Today, and National Geographic World Music Profiles.
To mark the release of their new CD I will remember everything, they will be perform highlights from Eric Banks' Sophia Parnok piece, I will remember everything. This work is a lyric biography of "Russia's Sappho", Sophia Parnok, who lived from 1885-1933. In addition to experiencing censorship Russia's first "out" Lesbian writer, Parnok also experienced oppression as a Jew during a very tumultuous time in Russian History.
They will also include excerpts from MacArthur Genius-award winner and extended vocal techniques pioneer Meredith Monk's multi-disciplinary piece Quarry and film Book of Days.
Alongside material from Bulgarian Jewish song catcher/ethnomusicologist/composer and arranger Nikolai Kaufman they will perform traditional Yiddish and Eastern European Jewish labor tunes, love songs, and lullabies learned in residency with Ethel Raim, one of America's foremost experts on Yiddish women's folk song traditions.
They will also perform "co-territorial" music from Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, and Bosnia
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LocationSan Geronimo Valley Community Center (View)
6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
San Geronimo, CA 94963
United States
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