Voices of Connection: 05/21 Meredith Monk: Shing Way from “Dancing Voices”
Welcome Guest Curator Francisco J. Núñez
Francisco J. Núñez, a MacArthur Fellow and Musical America’s 2018 Educator of the Year, is a composer, conductor, visionary, leading figure in music education, and the artistic director/founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Since he founded YPC in 1988, he has established an awareness of the ability of children to rise to unforeseen artistic heights, and now, through YPC National, he is expanding the YPC model to children’s choruses beyond New York City. READ MORE
Iconoclastic composer and performer Meredith Monk looks to the future through Dancing Voices, a 45-minute, intergenerational production created for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, which premiered in Lincoln Center’s 2017 White Light Festival.
The “body sings and the voice dances” in this program, which captures the kinetic energy and pioneering philosophy of Meredith Monk’s six-decade exploration of the human voice as an instrument. Shing Way, this nine-minute excerpt, was performed March 4, 2020, at the Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association conference in Rochester New York, under the direction of YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez, just days before the pandemic closed our doors.
– Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director and Founder, Young People's Chorus of New York City