Muller Meeting Room
Monday, November 12, 2007
6:00 pm
Janice Misurell-Mitchell is a musician and performance artist, and longtime resident of Kenwood, and our featured TalkingPoint artist for November! Come down to the Art Center for a chance to listen, discuss, and learn from an exciting and growing community of creative individuals.
Janice Misurell-Mitchell will present the DVD version of her composition about war, After the History, inspired by the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf and still relevant today. Recent live performances of the piece have been at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2006, the Music Institute of Chicago, “Voices of Dissent” at Bowling Green College of Musical Arts, and “Outside the Box” new music festival at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
“After the History…a provocative piece…inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall, it updates the Schoenbergian speech-song to incorporate extended flute techniques…she believes apathy to be the arts’ worst enemy, and After the History echoes some of the century’s greatest voices of protest, from Brecht to the beat poets to hip hop.” Ted Shen, Chicago Reader