NEC Chamber Singers: Something New - The Line Between

NEC: Jordan Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

In closing the Choral Department's 75th Anniversary season the NEC Chamber Singers will take their audience on an evolutionary journey, celebrating the emergence of western classical polyphony, to pushing the boundaries of how the choral sound can be featured in non-traditional ways in the 21st-century.
 
The 10:00PM program, "Something New: The Line Between" is a collaborative venture, featuring Andrew Lenox, a former NEC Chamber Singer, dedicated to carrying the tradition of choral singing into a new aural space. The choristers will combine sung material with live-produced electronic sounds informed by, and steeped in, the tradition of house music of today—which is itself born out of a need to break new cultural and artistic ground and rebel against the staid and respectable world of classical music. The famous American dancer Agnes de Mille is quoted as having said, "The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.” It is our fervent wish that you will be a part of this artistic experience with us—stand at your seat, sway, even dance in the aisle when you feel compelled. Join us, and come just as you are.
 

This is an in-person only event. 

 

 
Ensembles
  • NEC Chamber Singers
Conductors

  1. Andrew Lenox | The Line Between (2023)

    Introduction
    the deep and nameless fields
    If I could tell you
            Ashley Chen, soloist
    Pretty Bird
            Chloe Thum, Madeleine Wiegers, soloists
    Coming Home

    Pre-recorded voices:
    Stellan Connelly Bettany, Ashley Chen, Killian Grider, Riccardo Lucas Hernandez, Yoomin Kang, Nicholas Ottersberg,
    Anna Poltronieri Tang, Margaret Storm, Chloe Thum, Calvin Wamser, and Madeleine Wiegers

    Michael Clark Wonson, Lighting Designer and Technical Staff

     

    Andrew Lenox

    Andrew Lenox - the artist alias of composer Andrew Haig - is a producer, audio engineer, composer, and remixer of music across multiple genres. He works primarily with the physical embodiment of sound: how it interacts with the body of the performer, how it feels within a performance space, and how the audience experience is perceived in both a physical as well as an emotional way. Born in the US but educated in both Germany (B.A. in Composition, Cologne, 2019) and the Netherlands (M.A. in Composition, The Hague, 2021), his music has been performed widely in Europe, the UK, the US, and Japan. His current projects involve a series of solo works with electronics after a concept developed with collaborative musicians during the pandemic quarantine of 2020, a soon-to-be released 4-track EP of dance music, and a book in-development about the collaborative process. Mr. Haig’s acoustic influences include the works of Rebecca Saunders, György Kurtag, and Pierluigi Bilone, as well as the electronic stylings of artists such as Surgeon, Rrose, and the performing collective Sandwell District. He lives and works in Provincetown, MA.

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