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EARUNIT in NYC!

TRANSIT is excited to continue our collaboration with our friends in Denmark’s groundbreaking composers collective EARUNIT on October 16! We will be performing new works by Carsten Bo Eriksen (aka mbd73), Ejnar Kanding, Li-Ying Wu, and Frode Andersen. We will also be fortunate to have Eriksen and Kanding performing live electronics with us at the performance.

This concert is a special one for us because it marks the third collaboration with members of EARUNIT, and it will be the first time we perform an entire program of their music.

Please join us for this free concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music (W. 37th Street btw 9/10, more info here) at 7:30 pm on Friday, October 16.  We will have wine for sale – and maybe we can persuade our friends to bring some treats from Denmark as well!

Corps Exquis on tour

We are really excited to take Corps Exquis on tour – this time to Virginia and Philadelphia!

 

On Thursday, March 26, we will perform at the Bright Box Theatre in Winchester, VA, presented by Shenendoah University.

On Friday, March 27, we will perform at FringeArts in Philadelphia, PA.

 

We are looking forward to having special guests Vicky Chow, Pauline Kim, and Eileen Mack join us on this tour!!

 

Stay tuned to our facebook and twitter feeds for updates as we journey down South, and check out our upcoming events page for more details.

Haxan at Cornell

TRANSIT goes for the high spook-factor on November 14 at Cornell University.

We will be performing our original score to the 1922 silent Swedish/Danish film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. Directed by Benjamin Christensen, Häxan was banned and heavily censored in the USA because of its graphic nature. It is an incredible work, and we anticipate the setting of Cornell University’s Sage Chapel to be the perfect setting for this film!

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Showtime is 7pm. The film is subtitled and runs 1 hour and 45 minutes. Admission is free. You might want to leave the young ones at home for this – it is not a tame film! Häxan is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Surrealism and Magic at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. You can thank these folks for organizing the event: Johnson Museum and Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and Cornell University’s Kroch Library. Supported in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival, French Studies Program, Cornell Cinema, Department of Music, and the Wharton Studio Museum.

Basic info here.

Here’s the film on youtube – with a very different musical score than ours!

Sage Chapel: 147 Hoplaza, Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

 

DoubleBill Festival info

TRANSIT is pleased to announce our upcoming DoubleBill Festival at the DiMenna Center!

June 5 will feature new works from NYC and Sweden, and June 6 will be an NYC and Berlin DoubleBill. Both concerts will begin at 7:30, and each concert will have an amazing smörgåsbord (see what we did there?) of works by the following composers:

On June 5, we will present works by:
Daniel Wohl
Jeff Myers
Caleb Burhans
Nils Frahm
Sara Nemtsov
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler

On June 6, we will present works by:
Adrian Knight
Missy Mazzoli
Caroline Shaw
Fabian Svensson
Marcus Fjellström
Tomas Hulenvik

Tickets can be purchased (cash only) at the door: $12, $10 students/seniors
Wine will be available for purchase.