Composer Celka Ojakangas Discussion

Join us for a conversation with composer Celka Ojakangas, the winner of the Gunther Schuller Centennial Third Stream Composition Contest. Ojakangas’s music plays with hybridism and recontextualization, intentionally exploring and blurring the boundaries between culturally-defined genres for a resultant fun and eclectic palette of textures, rhythms, and grooves. Themes that will be discussed include pluralism, the idea of genre, and intertextuality. Ken Schaphorst will lead members of the NEC Philharmonia in a performance of Celka Ojakangas’s composition Sploopy on Friday, November 21, at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall.