Pop-Up Concerts

Rebekah Heller

Righteous Rage – Music for Bassoon

Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 6PM

Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Free admission • Doors open at 5:30PM, music at 6PM
Onstage seating is first-come, first-served.

A virtuosic bassoonist, conductor, and core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Rebekah Heller is celebrated for reimagining the bassoon's possibilities through adventurous performances and groundbreaking commissions. In this Pop-Up Concert, she performs a program of new music for bassoon choir by composers from the African Diaspora, including the world premiere of Righteous Rage by Brittany J. Green, which was inspired by and is in direct conversation with another work on the program, Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (originally for 10 cellos).

Sit onstage and enjoy a free drink during these hour-long weeknight Pop-Up Concerts, and mingle with the musicians and fellow concertgoers after the show.

Rebekah Heller by Tarishi Gupta 960x1446 — Photo by Tarishi Gupta

Free admission • Doors open at 5:30PM, music at 6PM
Onstage seating is first-come, first-served.

Sit onstage and enjoy a free drink during these hour-long weeknight Pop-Up Concerts, and mingle with the musicians and fellow concertgoers after the show.

Repertoire

Brittany J. Green
Righteous Rage for solo bassoon and seven pre-recorded bassoons
(2024) world premiere
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Fay Victor Nurture (for Ingram) for solo bassoon and seven pre- recorded bassoons (2024) world premiere (solo version)
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Jessie Cox Sonic Cartography for solo bassoon and six pre-recorded bassoons (2021)
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Joy Guidry How Hot is the Sand at 6pm? for voice and solo bassoon, with pre-recorded bassoons (2020)
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Julius Eastman (arr. Rebekah Heller) The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc for solo bassoon and nine pre-recorded bassoons (1981/2024)