Whoa!! *FREE* Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore)/religious concert NYC Saturday

[Rabrrrrrr]

This will be held at my seminary, Union Seminary, at 3041 Broadway (at 121st and Broadway). Union Seminary has an INCREDBILE professor of worship (Prof. Janet Walton) who is really big on improvisation, using mordern musical styles (and styles from the masses, not just atonal tone-row modern), and worship being designed to speak to people, even if it never uses words. I super duper highly recommend this event. I've studied with this professor, and my partner is one of her doctoral students, and I have to say that if you skip this, you will rue missing it.

Here's the blurb:

The "Worship and the Arts" Program of Union Theological Seminary is proud to present an evening of improvised music featuring:

THURSTON MOORE, who is the singer and guitarist of the internationally-renown rock band SONIC YOUTH, improvising electric
guitar with drums, and TEST, the legendary free-jazz quartet, famous for honing their sound in the subways as part of the MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK program for the last 20 years. These guys are the authentic masters! drums, bass, and woodwinds.

This concert piggybacks on the "Improvisation and Worship" class -the freedom and vitality of this music have huge implications for the worship experience and <<<connection to the divine>>>. It is truly a concert for all of us, and a rare chance to see the best in the business in your own backyard.

SATURDAY FEB 21 8PM JAMES CHAPEL

FREE and open to all - just like the music.

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Rabrrrrrr speaking again - if anyone has any questions, ask me here, or send me a PM. I am VERY VERY excited about this, and want to get as many people there as possible. The chapel in which this concert will take place is a worship space in which the pews have been removed, so that it is entirely adapatable to whatever worship event one would like to have in there. Also, there is a beautiful art show in that space now of a Puerto Rican woman who does iconography-like artwork using hispanic people in a sort of collage thingy (she's the only I've seen who does the physical style of art she does, so it's impossible to classify).

Really, you should go, if you are in NYC.

[Khephra]

1. What you are now hearing is the sounds of crying from Indy

Do not be alarmed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. It's only a two hour flight! You have time!

You can stay at my place.

[Khephra]

3. Do you have the money?

I appreciate the offer though. I just spent my last free money on A Perfect Circle tickets.

:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. A Perfect Circle?

Not familiar with it.

[Khephra]

6. The Tool spinoff band

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I didn't realize that Tool was important enough to get a spinoff band

while they're still in existence. Though I did get my nephew the CD of Tool music set to strings, and since he was interested in that, I got him Black Angels (the Kronos Quartet albunm of their recording of Crumb's "Black Angels") and Coltrane's, uh, seminal musical piece recorded live, but I can't remember the name, but it's bloody f-ing amazing. And he liked them both. But then, what teenager wouldn't enjoy the opening of Black Angels?

[MrSoundAndVision]

4. I just wanted to say....

that I actually know who Thurston Moore is.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Kick for the late friday night crowd who probably don't care

but I want to make sure know about it.

[Westegg]

9. Shit, I'm there...l

From 9th and B/way to 121 and B/Way. Tomorrow. I'm there.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. One last kick for the day people

:toast:

[confusionisnext]

11. wish I could be there

Thurston is great! I and a friend once got him to dedicate Kotton Krown to a friend of ours who passed away. And he appreciated the donuts that we gave him before the show. I've only seen Lee solo, but I bet Thurston will kick ass. Have fun!