KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS ® Ecstatic Music Bell Orchestre – A Performance Film 2020-21 MERKIN HALL Online Performance Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center Streamed Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 7 pm ET Kaufman Music Center presents Ecstatic Music® Bell Orchestre – A Performance Film House Music Album/Film Segments I: Opening II: House III: Dark Steel IV: What You’re Thinking V: Movement VI: All the Time VII: Colour Fields VIII: Making Time IX: Nature That’s It That’s All. X: Closing This concert is generously underwritten by the Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation. All 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center performances are online, filmed in safe, socially distanced locations observing health and safety protocols, and streamed to the safety of your home. Steinway is the official piano of Merkin Hall KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MH | 212 501 3330 About the Artists Montreal’s fabled avant-garde outfit Bell Orchestre comes together in the beautiful Canadian woodlands to create a unique performance film. The group consists of six musical mavericks, including Arcade Fire members Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry, who continue to shift the boundaries of instrumental music with their highly anticipated new record House Music — an immersive ecosystem of an album to be released March 19 on Erased Tapes. With the legacies of improvisation-exploring greats like Talk Talk, The Orb, Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis and the late Ennio Morricone in mind, on House Music, Bell Orchestre captures the impulsive, connective, mysterious poetics of musical invention happening in real-time. Both the album and this visual counterpart, directed by band member Kaveh Nabatian, unfold as one long piece, a recorded-then-sculpted improvisation that vastly expands their work, coalescing classical and electronic instrumentation in the creation of genre-defying musical worlds. Watch/embed the segment V: Movement here: https://youtu.be/NE42rmI8k_k Bell Orchestre Pietro Amato, French horn/keyboards/electronics Michael Feuerstack, pedal steel guitar/keyboards/vocals Kaveh Nabatian, trumpet/gongoma/keyboards/vocals Sarah Neufeld, violin/vocals Richard Reed Parry, bass/vocals Stefan Schneider, drums bellorchestre.com Film Credits Director: Kaveh Nabatian Executive Producers: Ryhna Thompson, Robert Raths Cinematographers: Nicolas Canniccioni, Philippe Roy Assistant Camera: Simon Larochelle Production Manager: Brian Neuman Editors: Kaveh Nabatian, Matthew Hannam, Namai Kham Po Colourist: SJ Smith erasedtapes.com Produced by Erased Taped and Envision Management & Production https://www.envisionmanagement.com/ and https://www.erasedtapes.com/ KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MH | 212 501 3330 About Ecstatic Music® “A hotbed for visionary artistic hybridity.” “No series has better instincts in fomenting post-genre alchemy than Ecstatic Music.” – Steve Smith, The New Yorker Experience Ecstatic Music® online! Get up close and personal with trailblazing artists and groundbreaking performances streamed directly to your home. Ecstatic Music has been hailed as “a who’s who of the music scene” (WQXR) and “audacious combinations and post-genre hybrids” (The New Yorker). Performances are followed by live post-concert talks with the artists and series curator Judd Greenstein. Upcoming Ecstatic Music® Events Thursday | May 6, 2021 | 7 pm // Conrad Tao Sunday | May 9, 2021 | 7 pm // Seth Parker Woods vvv Kaufman Music Center presentations in Merkin Hall are made possible, in part, with institutional support from: Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, The Amphion Foundation, Assurant Foundation, Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation, Inc., BMI Foundation, The Edward T. Cone Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Hearst Foundations, Inc., The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, Linden Arts Fund for Children, The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc., The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation, Tatiana Piankova Foundation, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts, The Ted Snowdon Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, and The Weininger Foundation, Inc. Presentations in Merkin Hall are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and from the New York City Council through the good offices of Council Member Helen Rosenthal. Kaufman Music Center presentations in Merkin Hall are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Presentations in Merkin Hall are also supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MH | 212 501 3330 See a Concert. Take a Class. Connect through Music. Founded in 1952 as a community music school, today’s Kaufman Music Center is home to Merkin Hall; Lucy Moses School, New York’s largest community arts school; Special Music School, New York’s only K-12 public school that teaches music as a core subject; and the acclaimed youth new music ensemble Face the Music. Executive Director Administration Kate Sheeran Brooke Bryant, Director of Development John Glover, Director of Artistic Planning Board of Trustees Sean Hartley, Director, Theater@Kaufman Orli Shaham, Chair Kathy Hubbard, Chief Administrative Officer Shahriar Rafimayeri, President John Johansen, Director, Marketing and Communications Rosalind Devon, Honorary Chair Igal Kesselman, Director, Lucy Moses School Elaine Kaufman, Honorary Chair and Music Director, Special Music School Charles Dimston, Vice President Leslie Lehman, Director of Facilities Bethany Millard, Vice President Cathy White O’Rourke, Vice President Irving Sitnick, Vice President Merkin Hall Staff Christina M. Mason, Treasurer David Bridges, Client Services Manager Wendy Mosler, Secretary Ben Young, Production Manager Joel Beckerman Leadership Council Kelsy Hillesheim, Box Office Manager Joshua Bell Etta Brandman Margaret Evans, Program Coordinator Justin Berrie Connie Goodman Jenny Liao, Head House Manager Damian Cavaleri David Klafter Chantal Emond Bourhis, Yannick Lewis, Xing Liao, Nikki Renée Daniels Roy Niederhoffer Rocco Luongo, Kathleen Raab, House Managers Danielle Dimston Michael Boyas, Shammah Campbell, Jorge Civico, Phyllis Feder Artists Council Sir James Galway Jacqueline Da Silva, Christian Gohler, Arcinello Jocson, Tzvi Avni Ken Ossip, Matthew Palmer, Jordan Peters, Kara Hammond Alan Menken Tom Thornton, Rosemarie Urbanek, Ushers Nathalie Joachim Fred Sherry Stephanie Armitage, Emily Ballou, Ann Barkin, Daniel Kaufman Arnold Steinhardt Kelly Faustel, Sam Gordon, Amira Mustapha, Ariel Osborne, David B. Krieger Eugenia Zukerman Solange Landau Carly Osnow-Levin, Rachel Rakov, Harry Rawlings, Dennis Lee Eleanor Smith, Ted Sterns, Antoine Thrower, Leon Virgo, Solomon Merkin Katherine Yip, Stage Managers Marjorie Penrod Kurtis Bradley, Richie Clark, Jeremiah Eigenmann, Sal Piscopo Ken Feldman, David Hurtgen, Gil Shuster, Jessica Rothstein Sound Engineers William A. Schwartz Jonathan Sulds Damon Whittemore, Recording Studio Manager Kara Unterberg Richard Kwan, Bill Moss, Noriko Okabe, Recording Engineers Patricia Weinbach Executive Director Emeritus, Founder, Kaufman Music Center Lydia Kontos Founding Director, The Hebrew Arts School (1951-1985) Dr. Tzipora H. Jochsberger Kaufman Music Center gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Mollie and Abraham Goodman and the Goodman family. Pianos by Steinway and Sons. The house harpsichord was built by Eric Herz in 1985 and donated by Mr. Joseph Wronker. 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The Barbara Bell Cumming Estelle Greco Roger Chen and Eileen Shin Phyllis and Sam Feder Charitable Trust Judith and Robert Hall Theodore Cohn Jerome L. Greene Foundation George Dennis Boyan Jovanovic and Mika Kato Rebecca Cooper and Howard Gilman Foundation Charles Dimston and Nikki Renée Daniels and Michael Waldman The Hearst Foundations, Inc Elena Asribekova Jeff Kready D’Addario Foundation Elaine and Henry Kaufman Danielle Dimston KPMG Claire and Eric Davenport Bethany and Robert B. Millard The Ferriday Fund Sarah and Martin Leibowitz Susan and Conrad De Jong Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc. Goldman Sachs & Co. Ann and Michael Loeb Fund, Santa Fe Community New York City Department of Anna and Mark Gurevich Katherine Schlatter and Foundation Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Kara Hammond Joseph Mauro Manuel De La Nuez the City Council Margaret Jan and