Salon Mondialité is an electro-acoustic musical performance and video installation by musician, producer, and vocalist Miho Hatori that explores themes of memory, identity, and colonialism through kaleidoscopic and expansive dream-pop atmospheres and hypnotic rhythms. Hatori combines composed and improvised music, experimenting with the structure of a “talk-show” to create a listening environment where nostalgia for the past and possibilities for the future co-exist. Hatori’s “talk show” substitutes traditional segments with “sound stories” and features onstage collaborations with Hatori's friends and invited guests.

For this performance at EMPAC, Hatori’s guests include musicians Patrick Higgins and Michael Beharie, and cross-media artists Steffani Jemison and Cole Lu.

A pre-show conversation between Miho Hatori and music curator Amadeus Julian Regucera begins at 7PM.

Inspired by the writing of Martinican poet-philosopher Édouard Glissant and his conception of an “interconnected identity,” Salon Mondialité ultimately takes on the mood of a funeral: laying to rest outdated and colonial ideas of “identity” and a “requiem” for those who died through forced or involuntary exile. 

Previously performed at venues such as The Broad in Los Angeles and The Kitchen in New York City, Hatori transforms the EMPAC Theater into the eponymous salon, welcoming audience members to a new version of this show.

Hatori is a Japanese-born and New York City-based vocalist, musician, and producer who performs widely and gained popularity in the 1990s with the legendary band Cibo Matto. Most recently, she released a solo album Between Isekai and Slice of Life and has recorded music under the pseudonyms New Optimism and Miss Information. Additionally, she produces music for soundtracks, films, commercials, and web content.

More information and tickets for the 2023 American Music Festival can be found on the Albany Symphony Orchestras website.

More information and tickets for the 2023 American Music Festival can be found on the Albany Symphony Orchestras website.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with a love song set list spun by DJs from Collectiveffort.

More information and tickets for the 2023 American Music Festival can be found on the Albany Symphony Orchestras website.

An intimate performance by composer and violinist DBR (Daniel Bernard Roumain), hailed by The New York Times as “about as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets.”

More information and tickets for the 2023 American Music Festival can be found on the Albany Symphony Orchestras website.

DAVID ALAN MILLER, CONDUCTOR | REGINA CARTER, VIOLIN | MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH, SPEAKER

Adolphus Hailstork: Symphony No. 4, “Survive”

David Schiff: Selections from Four Sisters

Daniel Roumain & Marc Bamuthi Joseph: Forgiveness, Spoken Word Concerto for Orchestra (world premiere)

WHAT IS CONVERGENCE? The Albany Symphony, long known for celebrating the breadth of American culture through new music, continues its community-building work with Convergence, a three-year collaborative project through which the Symphony, Capital Region communities, and nationally acclaimed artistic partners join together in an exploration of three Black American art forms. Funded by the Carl E. Touhey Foundation, Convergence will build community-wide awareness of our contemporary world through artistic inquiry and musical creation.

More information and tickets for the 2023 American Music Festival can be found on the Albany Symphony Orchestras website.

DAVID ALAN MILLER, CONDUCTOR

Horacio Fernández: Unruly (world premiere)

Marie A. Douglas: The Candidate (world premiere)

Kyle Rivera: (new work) (world premiere)

Christian Quiñones: (new work) (world premiere)

Jack Frerer: TBA

Come join us for a special performance featuring the RPI Dance Club, Eighth Wonder, Gajjde Sher Bhangra, ASA We Dey Move Dance Team, RPI Rounak, and RPI Ballroom.

Want to tune in virtually? No problem: https://www.youtube.com/@rpi-tv

Performances by Flute Choir, Percussion Ensemble, Sax Ensemble, Not Quite Bluegrass, and Symphonic Band.

Please contact the Rensselaer Music Association form more information about this event.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will present a performance by two-time Grammy-winning percussionist Jack DeJohnette.

Over the course of his nearly six-decade career, Jack DeJohnette has established himself as one of the greatest drummers in the history of jazz. He has collaborated with icons including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, and many more, in styles as varied as hard bop, rhythm and blues, world music, and avante-garde. Modern Drummer magazine has declared him one of the five greatest living jazz drummers, saying, “[H]e seems to play the music of the spheres, like a savant channeling the rhythm gods from on high.”

In addition to his two Grammy awards, DeJohnette has received five Grammy nominations. In 2007 he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. He was also awarded a Jazz Master Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2012.

“Peerless as a drummer-percussionist/pianist and composer/improvisor, Mr. DeJohnette has always embodied a full musical presence in the moment in performance and recording, alongside a strong sense of looking forward, anticipating the future. His music is always full of fresh and unexpected surprises since his appearance on the NYC jazz scene in the late 60s, while still providing flowing-yet-solid rhythmic support for his musical partners who read like a Who’s Who of influential jazz artists,” said RPI Lecturer Ross Rice. “As the primary drummer for Miles Davis’ ground-breaking Bitches Brew, he showed how popular new rhythmic forms could influence and inform jazz music, breathing new energy into the genre, and he has continued to do so ever since, influencing countless musicians to follow. His ensemble performances are master classes in composition and spontaneous musical interplay at a high level, deeply satisfying on a soul and spiritual level, and are not to be missed.”

Accompanying DeJohnette at RPI will be Jerome Harris and Marvin Sewell.

Jerome Harris’ first major professional experience came as bassist for Sonny Rollins, and since then he has played both bass and guitar on six continents and over 60 recordings in genres including jazz, blues, folk, and gospel. Among his many collaborators are David Karkauer, Bill Frisell, Leni Stern, Martha Redbone, Amina Claudine Myers, and Ned Rothenberg. He has taught at Hampshire College, William Paterson University, and Lehman College of the City University of New York, and has published essays on jazz and individual musicians.

Marvin Sewell is a guitarist, composer, and producer fusing jazz, blues, funk, alternative, and world music. He began his career with Chicago musicians including Von Freeman, Billy Branch, and Big Time Sarah before moving to New York to play and tour with Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Amy Mann, and as bandleader and musical director for multiple Grammy-winning artist Cassandra Wilson.

This performance is part of the Eleanore N. Fischbach Classical Concert Series and is hosted by the Rensselaer Union and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS).

For more information, please call (518) 276-6505 or email activities@rpi.edu.

The RPI Players spring musical is Heathers! Full of singing and dancing, this dark comedy depicts all the dangers of high school from hanging at a 711 to murdering the popular people.

more info: 

players.rpi.edu/heathers