NYC AACM Missive

Live at The Kitchen!

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MUSIC/LITERATURE
A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of the AACM
Featuring performances by Nicole Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Muhal
Richard Abrams, Matana Roberts, and Wet Ink
October 9 and 11 (Thurs and Sat), 8pm
Curated by George E. Lewis and Christopher McIntyre
Tickets: $10

October 11 (Sat), 5pm
Book Signing and Panel Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards, George E. Lewis,
Howard Mandel, Nicole Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, and Ted Panken
Tickets: $5

In conjunction with the recent publication of his book, A Power Stronger
Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago
Press, 2008), composer, musician, former Kitchen music curator and long-time
AACM member George Lewis hosts performances, a panel discussion and a book
signing. Founded in 1965 on the south side of Chicago, the Association for
the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a dynamic collective that
has reconfigured the trajectory of music-making in America through its
devotion to furthering artistic experimentation and its forward-thinking
approach to composition, performance, improvisation and collectivity.

Paying tribute to the organization¹s history and celebrating its future,
this event will feature two evenings of AACM performances at The Kitchen
with Nicole Mitchell (flute), Amina Claudine Myers and Muhal Richard Abrams
(duo piano), Matana Roberts (saxophone); and the ensemble Wet Ink performing
works by AACM composers. A Saturday afternoon panel discussion moderated by
Christopher McIntyre will include Lewis, Myers and Mitchell as well as
writers Brent Hayes Edwards, Ted Panken and Howard Mandel. The discussion
will be followed by a book signing by Lewis.

These events frame a Friday evening concert of the music of Oliver Lake and
Reggie Nicholson at the Community Church of New York (40 East 35th Street)
on October 10 at 8 P.M., sponsored by the AACM New York Chapter, Inc. For
more information, please visit aacmchicago.org.