Friday, November 12, 2021 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)
Slee Hall - Lippes Concert HallNorth Campus
Philip E. Rehard, Concert Manager(716) 645-2921rehard@buffalo.edu
Dr. Woods is a UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar, ’21-22.
Evocative, theatrical, and genre-bending, Difficult Grace is an evening-length, multimedia concert tour de force conceived by and featuring cellist Seth Parker Woods in the triple role of cellist, narrator/guide, and movement artist, performing music written for and with Seth by Freida Abtan, Monty Adkins, Fredrick Gifford, Michael Gordon, Nathalie Joachim, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.
Heightened by film, spoken texts, dance, and visual artwork by Jacob Lawrence, Barbara Earl Thomas, Zoë McLean, and Freida Abtan, Difficult Grace creates a vivid sonic and visual canvas that draws its inspiration from the Great Migration, archive research in the year 1915 of the historic newspaper The Chicago Defender, immigration, and the poetry of Amiri Baraka and Dudley Randall.
In fall 2022, Difficult Grace will premiere in its fully realized new iteration including an on-stage collaboration with choreographer and dancer Roderick George with new musical commissions from composers Ted Hearne and Devonté Hynes a.k.a Blood Orange.
Video trailer on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/619992332
PROGRAM
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON — Calvary Ostinato from Lamentations: “Black Folk Song Suite”
FREDRICK GIFFORD – Difficult Grace (with artwork by Barbara Earl Thomas)
MONTY ADKINS – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
NATHALIE JOACHIM – The Race: 1915
(with projected images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
FREIDA ABTAN – My Heart Is A River
PIERRE ALEXANDRE TREMBLAY – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant]
A discussion from the stage between Music Department faculty member Dr. Jamie Currie and Dr. Woods about the program will follow the performance.
General Public Tickets:
Online - $15 plus approximately $2.55 fee at www.ticketmaster.com (up to 90 minutes
prior to concert time)
In person, in advance - $19 at UB’s Center for the Arts(Tue & Wed, 12pm-6pm)
At the door (one hour before concert time) - $23
Seniors/UB alumni/non-UB students Tickets:
Online - $10 plus $2.40 fee at www.ticketmaster.com (up to 90 minutes
In person, in advance - $14 at UB’s Center for the Arts (Tue & Wed, 12pm-6pm)
At the door (one hour before concert time) - $18
Please note: In addition to the individual transaction fee outlined above, TicketMaster also ads a $2.00 order charge to every order, whether one ticket or multiple tickets are being purchased in that order.
All UB faculty, staff and students with a valid ID will receive one complimentary ticket to this performance.
For further information: https://www.buffalo.edu/diversity-innovation/distinguished-visiting-scholars/cohort.html