AVENUE B - The Show
Thursday, June 16 Elodie Lauten Ensemble Live Videotaping for Avenue B - The Show - June 16 at New York's Maia Meyhane Avenue B is a new downtown reality show mixing video projections and live performances where musicians filmmakers, photographers and other visual artists, poets, dancers, and actors, interact between themselves and with the audience, under the friendly guidance of host and director Martin Russell. The festivities take place at Maia Meyhane, a new Turkish restaurant on Avenue B, in an informal atmosphere. Admission is free. Composer/keyboardist/producer Elodie Lauten (http://www.elodielauten.net) has been described as a pioneer of post-minimalism, and a force on the new music scene. 18 recordings of her music have been released on 10 labels. Lauten has received awards from the NEA, ASCAP, MTC, AMC, and commissions from Lincoln Center, the Soho Baroque Opera, Harpsichord Unlimited and The Lark Ascending. Lauten's Symphony 2001, was premiered in February 2003 by the SEM Orchestra in New York. In 1999, Lauten's "Deus ex Machina Cycle" for voices and Baroque ensemble (4Tay) received strong critical acclaim in the US and Europe. Critics have hailed Elodie Lauten's music as "an extraordinary revelation ... a fixture of future musical lexicons" (England), "wonderfully exciting music" (Netherlands), "food for the soul" (Canada), "elegiac melodies" (The New York Times), "grand work that we are likely to return to again and again" (21st Century Music), "mesmerizing" (Option Magazine). She has been called "a composer of enchanting musicÉ a seminal figure... one of the leading postminimal composersÉa major talent (The Village Voice), "a musical magus in the Renaissance tradition" (Chicago Reader). Lauten's "Variations On The Orange Cycle" was included in Chamber Music America's list of 100 best works of the 20th century and has been recorded for Lovely Music CDs. She received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian classical music with Ahkmal Parwez. From her father, jazz composer Errol Parker, she acquired a deep understanding of improvisation. For more information about her music, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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