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Tyshawn Sorey. John Rogers
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By Nelson A. King
Alarm Will Sound, “one of the
most vital and original ensembles on
the American music scene,” according
to the New York Times, continues
its “Video Chat Variations” series
of remote performances on Oct. 30,
with visionary, multi-faceted artist
and MacArthur “Genius” Award
winner Tyshawn Sorey’s “Autoschediasms.”
This premiere follows a “stunning
first presentation” of Meredith
Monk’s “Anthem,” which
launched “Video Chat Variations” in
August, according to Alarm Will
Sound.
It said the Sorey premiere will have
a unique set-up: Alarm Will Sound’s
players will be split into “pods,” gathering
in different studio locations
around the country for a real-time
remote performance.
The musicians will all be led by
Sorey (from a studio in Philadelphia)
in a live composition, where he will
be able to organically interact with
the different groups of players on
multiple screens around him — and
allow the audience to see these interactions.
Alarm Will Sound said Sorey has
been widely celebrated for his “incomparable
virtuosity, effortless mastery
and memorization of highly complex
scores.
“His ‘Autoschediasms’ are works
composed in the moment, challenging
the distinction between improvised
and composed music,” it said.
In this video-chat “Autoschedi-
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Award winning Trinidadian born actress
and poet Nehassaiu deGannes.
Greg Routt
By Caribbean Life
Award winning Trinidadian born
actress and poet Nehassaiu deGannes is
celebrating a return to her writing roots
with the recent selection of her poem,
“To Find, To Be” as a shortlisted finalist
for the prestigious Montreal International
Poetry Prize Competition.
deGannes’ poem was shortlisted for
the honor along with approximately
fifty other works, selected from nearly
5000 entries submitted from across the
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By Nelson A. King
The 10th edition of the prestigious
regional festival, NGC Bocas Lit Fest
2020, was held virtually on Facebook
and YouTube last month due to ongoing
restrictions with the COVID-19 global
pandemic, according to the Trinidad
Express.
Trinidadian-born author Richard
Georges was the OCM Bocas Overall
Prize winner, with his “moving” novel,
“Epiphaneia,” the Express said.
It said Guyanese-born Tessa McWatt’s
“Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race
and Belonging” copped the OCM Bocas
Prize Non-Fiction.
Trinidadian-born writer Amanda
Choo Quan was awarded the Johnson
and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers
(JAAWP) prize for Non-Fiction, the
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