Composer Paola Prestini and her husband, cellist Jeffrey Ziegler, bring "Houses of Zodiac" to Bang on Can s LOUD Weekend Festival at Mass MoCA on July 29.
– Narrated by Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance, Film Explores North America’s Wildest River –
Narrated by stage legend and Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance,
THE COLORADO takes viewers on a free-flowing journey through the river’s diverse history. From the earliest settlements in the region to the impact of climate change today, the documentary tells the stories of European and Anglo-American explorations in the 18th and 19th centuries, the dam-building era and its consequences, agriculture and immigration, and the fate of the river’s delta in Mexico.
Granite Rapid, Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Five critically acclaimed composers William Brittelle, Glenn Kotche, Shara Nova, Paola Prestini, and recent Pulitzer and Grammy winner John Luther Adams bring their unique voices to this narrative. The Grammy-laureate vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, percussionist Glenn Kotche (of the popular band Wilco) and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (formerly with the Kronos Quartet), ma
5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust) on February 9, 2021 at 6:00 am
Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile ground for artistic exploration is anything but in hibernation. Opened in 2015 thanks to the efforts of attorney and organist Kevin Dolan and composer Paola Prestini, the former sawdust-factory-turned-contemporary-music-haven has just announced its Winter/Spring 2021 season, featuring a cornucopia of creative work from a stylistically rich cohort of composers, choreographers, poets, instrumentalists, dancers, and filmmakers.
Furthering its mission as an incubator for young artists’ careers, a new partnership with New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation joins National Sawdust’s stellar lineup of fellowship programs, including the Hildegard Commission and the BluePrint Fellowship; and Beth Morrison Projects returns thi