Composer Portraits

John Zorn at 70
Music for Strings

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8PM

Miller Theatre at Columbia University

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This fall, Miller Theatre celebrates the 70^th birthday of New York musical icon John Zorn.

The season opens with a spotlight on Zorn’s writing for strings. Eight trusted interpreters of his music join forces for three virtuosic and important works, all written in 2020, including the mini opera, The Gas Heart, for two cellists and two percussionists.

Zorn 960x1446 — courtesy of John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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This fall, Miller Theatre celebrates the 70^th birthday of New York musical icon John Zorn.

Repertoire

John Zorn
Sigil Magick: A Curious and Detailed Exposition of Sigils, Signs, and Hieroglyphs Peculiar to the Occult Orders, Hermetic Brotherhoods, and Dark Mystery Schools of the Late Middle Ages for string quintet
(2020)
John Zorn The Gas Heart a mini opera for two celli and two percussionists (2020)
John Zorn
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
for string sextet (2020)
John Zorn Circe a magical invocation for two trumpets (2019)