Join us for an electrifying concert of new music, featuring premieres from 12 of today's most exciting emerging composers.

From 1965 to 1971, James Tenney composed the Postal Pieces, a collection of scores written on the back of postcards composed for and dedicated to friends. In 2020, Jennifer Bewerse began writing postal pieces inspired by Tenney’s project as a way to create art and keep in touch with friends during the pandemic. Southland Ensemble, Los Angeles’s indispensable proponents of contemporary music, presents a concert of solos from Tenney’s Postal Pieces alongside solos from Bewerse’s postal pieces, including several world premieres.

“Flock” will present a special reconvening of The Readers Chorus, led by Sara Roberts, for the first time in several years. Formed to utter into the world all manners of language as sound, the chorus will perform Black/White Oratorio by Robert Lax & John Beer, entirely composed of names of colors, for Dog Star 20. As with language, Mason Moy begins the evening with bringing together a vocabulary of pitches through his new composition for string trio.

After two years away, the Cello Seminar returns home to Salem this summer. In addition to a wonderful array of modern and post-modern repertoire for solo cello and cello with piano, the June 2nd concert will feature two newly-commissioned cello octets inspired by Washington County and written by innovative composers Jennifer Bewerse and Kirin McElwain, both returning seminar alums.

In ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’, award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion embark upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. Presented in its Los Angeles premiere for The Performance Project at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, the film includes original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live by Monday Evening Concerts' ensemble in residence, ECHOI, conducted by Jonathan Hepfer.  This adaptation, written by Sophia Al-Maria and directed by Tsang, follows the white whale above and below the surface of the water, developing a visual cosmology that resists the exploration and exploitation of the earth under imperial colonialism. The narrative is interwoven with extracts by the Sub-Sub-Librarian, a character played by Fred Moten, and tackles the novel’s subterranean currents, encountering the resistance of the ship’s hydrarchy, or organizational structure, and collectives of ‘mariners, renegades and castaways,’ as described by historian C.L.R. James. The staging of this adaptation by Moved by the Motion pairs the classic story of the whaler’s ‘floating factory‘ with the beginnings of the film industry in silent film. The film was shot entirely on a soundstage combining silent-era filmmaking techniques with a virtual reality game engine projecting surreal ocean environments. ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’ is produced by the Schauspielhaus Zürich and co-commissioned by LUMA Foundation, Superblue, TBA21—Academy, HARTWIG ART FOUNDATION, The Shed, DE SINGEL and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’, award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion embark upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. Presented in its Los Angeles premiere for The Performance Project at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, the film includes original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live by Monday Evening Concerts' ensemble in residence, ECHOI, conducted by Jonathan Hepfer.  This adaptation, written by Sophia Al-Maria and directed by Tsang, follows the white whale above and below the surface of the water, developing a visual cosmology that resists the exploration and exploitation of the earth under imperial colonialism. The narrative is interwoven with extracts by the Sub-Sub-Librarian, a character played by Fred Moten, and tackles the novel’s subterranean currents, encountering the resistance of the ship’s hydrarchy, or organizational structure, and collectives of ‘mariners, renegades and castaways,’ as described by historian C.L.R. James. The staging of this adaptation by Moved by the Motion pairs the classic story of the whaler’s ‘floating factory‘ with the beginnings of the film industry in silent film. The film was shot entirely on a soundstage combining silent-era filmmaking techniques with a virtual reality game engine projecting surreal ocean environments. ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’ is produced by the Schauspielhaus Zürich and co-commissioned by LUMA Foundation, Superblue, TBA21—Academy, HARTWIG ART FOUNDATION, The Shed, DE SINGEL and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’, award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion embark upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. Presented in its Los Angeles premiere for The Performance Project at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, the film includes original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live by Monday Evening Concerts' ensemble in residence, ECHOI, conducted by Jonathan Hepfer.  This adaptation, written by Sophia Al-Maria and directed by Tsang, follows the white whale above and below the surface of the water, developing a visual cosmology that resists the exploration and exploitation of the earth under imperial colonialism. The narrative is interwoven with extracts by the Sub-Sub-Librarian, a character played by Fred Moten, and tackles the novel’s subterranean currents, encountering the resistance of the ship’s hydrarchy, or organizational structure, and collectives of ‘mariners, renegades and castaways,’ as described by historian C.L.R. James. The staging of this adaptation by Moved by the Motion pairs the classic story of the whaler’s ‘floating factory‘ with the beginnings of the film industry in silent film. The film was shot entirely on a soundstage combining silent-era filmmaking techniques with a virtual reality game engine projecting surreal ocean environments. ‘MOBY DICK; or, The Whale’ is produced by the Schauspielhaus Zürich and co-commissioned by LUMA Foundation, Superblue, TBA21—Academy, HARTWIG ART FOUNDATION, The Shed, DE SINGEL and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Join us to celebrate the life and work of curator, critic, scholar, and author, Bérénice Reynaud. CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have joined  Bérénice’s  beloved friends, students, and colleagues to hold a tribute to her dedication to filmmakers, artists, and the field of cinema.

Bérénice taught in the School of Film/Video at CalArts for more than 30 years with a brilliant, rigorous relationship to cinema that influenced generations of students. She was fiercely intelligent, loving, and a tireless advocate for the filmmakers, activists, and rebels that made up both her local and global family. Bérénice was the founding co-curator, with Steve Anker, of the Film at REDCAT series from its inception in 2003, until her passing on September 17, 2023.

Sigur Rós perform songs from their new album + select pieces from their catalogue with a 41-piece orchestra