“Coming Together“ by Frederic Rzewski, performed by NakedEye

Tribeca New Music presents the NakedEye ensemble performing “Coming Together“ by Frederic Rzewski at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC. Frederic Rzewski is well known as a composer of strong, leftist political convictions. He shatters structuralist convention but calls for social change with powerful use of folk songs, narratives, and politically charged texts. Rzewski’s masterpiece Coming Together was inspired by the 1971 riots at New York’s Attica prison and text from a letter written by an inmate, Sam Melville, who was killed in the riots. Less well known is that Melville was originally imprisoned for eight bombings in New York City, reflecting his opposition to the Vietnam War. In 2017, Attica’s dark history resurfaced in the news for its leprosy experiments on non-consenting inmates. —NakedEye The NakedEye Ensemble: Ju-Ping Song, piano; Matthew Angelo, flute; Christy Banks, clarinet; Ryan Kauffman, saxophone; Daniel Lippel, guitar; Andy Thierauf, percussion; Peter Kibbe, cello; Mike Bitts, bass.