Ecstatic Music Festival: Newspeak & Secret Society

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This winter, more than 150 composers, songwriters, and performers re‐defining contemporary music come together at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City for collaborations exploring the fertile terrain between classical and popular music.

The eight‐piece, high‐powered electric chamber ensemble Newspeak performs the first‐ever commissioned work by Darcy James Argue, director of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and winner of the 2010 Downbeat Critics Poll as Rising Star in the Big Band, Composer and Arranger categories. Argue’s 18‐piece big band Secret Society, called "a wholly original take on big band's past, present and future" (Newsweek), will perform new works by highly‐acclaimed pianist/ composer Vijay Iyer, winner of the 2010 Jazz Journalists Association Artist of the Year Award, the Montreal‐based composer Nicole Lizée and Newspeak founder David T. Little.

Experience an engaging concert at a festival that is both of and about the present musical moment, at Merkin Concert Hall in the heart of New York City.

A Special Presentation of New Sounds® Live with WNYC’s John Schaefer