Palaver Strings presents: Teaching Time To Walk Saturday, May 18, 2019 7:00 p.m.

 "Teaching Time to Walk" with Nate Tucker

When we play music live, time becomes our medium. Our relationship to time is ever-changing and rich in metaphor; in the words of Paul Celan, We shell time and teach it to walk: then time returns to the shell. Sometimes we play with audience expectations and sense of stability, while other times we must confine our own personal expression to a pulse that is larger than us. With this program, we invite our listeners to think about stability and flux, how we go with the flow and how we can disrupt it. This program features a collaborative new commission by percussionist, electronic musician, and composer Nate Tucker.

PROGRAM
HOROWITZ "Moon" for Strings and Percussion
DESSNER Aheym
BACH BWV 229 Komm Jesu Komm
TUCKER Three Crooked Arrows for strings and electronics
Palaver Strings is a musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization founded in Boston in 2014. Now in its fifth season, Palaver has established itself as a forward-thinking ensemble whose mission is rooted in community and creative programming. Palaver has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Shalin Liu Center, and a celebration of the Lullaby Project at Carnegie Hall, and has toured the East and West Coasts of the United States. Palaver has been Ensemble in Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts since 2017, and continues a longstanding residency at Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, ME. Equally passionate about education, Palaver plans to open the Palaver Community Music School in Portland, ME in 2019, with the goal of fostering creativity and dialogue and making high-quality music education accessible to students of all

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