The locally based ANCIA Saxophone Quartet will perform a striking program of contemporary music with percussionist David Schmalenberger at Studio Z. The program will include Arvo Part’s hauntingly beautiful and deeply spiritual Summa, Revolutionary Etudes by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang and a cover of Radiohead’s alternative pop tune Paranoid Android. Percussionist David Schmalenberger will join the Quartet on Perry Goldstein’s groove based, high energy Fault Lines, and John Mackey’s Strange Humors which combines African hand-drumming with middle-eastern folk music.
Tickets are $5 in advance and students, $10 at the door. Visit http://www.studiozstpaul.com/ to purchase tickets in advance.
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Celebrated for its artistry, virtuosity and exquisitely blended sound, ANCIA (AHN-chee-uh, the Italian word for reed, the small piece of wood that vibrates to produce the saxophone tone) performs and conducts educational workshops throughout North America, Europe and Asia, juxtaposing traditional classical music with contemporary pieces by modern composers. The Minneapolis-based quartet’s repertoire spans centuries and musical styles – Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Jazz, Pop – with a special focus on modern work.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.