jimi, miles, wolfgang, ludwig, johannes, anton von, mr. ives, mr. cage, mr. buddha, karlheinz, johngeogepaulringo, mickkeith, muddy, buddy, leadbelly, mr. zimmerman, eric, blind willie, son (house, seals), lightnin', james (skip and brown), john lee and earl, elmore and like that
JOHN KING, composer and guitarist, has had his music presented in many major festivals, including the Fronteras Festival (London); Next Wave Festival (NY); Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg); Intermedium 1 Festival (Berlin); Creative Time's "Music in the Anchorage" (NY); Warsaw Autumn and Bang On A Can (NY). Mr. Kings experimental opera, la belle captive, based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, was premiered in Buenos Aires at the Centro Experimental de Teatro Colon in April 2003, receiving further performances at the Fronteras Festival (London, Sept. 2004) and The Kitchen, NYC in Jan. 2005.
His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; the Royal Danish Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; SüdWestRundfunk (Baden-Baden), Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Childrens Theater Company (Mpls., MN).
He has received grants from the NEA/Music in Motion, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Meet The Composer/Readers Digest Dance Commissioning Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, and New York Foundation for the Arts.
Mr. King curated the music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Companys EVENTS at the Joyce Theater and at The Barbican Center in London. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC.
His radioplay TORN/zerrisen was commissioned by SüdWestRundfunk radio, Baden-Baden, Germany and has been broadcast throughout Germany as well as being performed live in Berlin's Kunstler Theater. His first opera Herzstuck/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, was premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen in 2000.
Hello! John; Thanks for the cyber-friendship. Glad to hear a bit of your splendid recent work in this venue. I enjoyed your vigor & sense of humor at ADF a little over thirty years ago. Hoping all goes well for you - gil.
Salut!!
Thanks for the add and for taking a listen....any comment or feedback would be great!..much appreciated!..i'm loving this time of year, returned home from Pattaya beach last night. It was the King's Birthday!! Big holiday yesterday here in Thailand!! :)
Youna
they're coming...we have yet to see the video. it was great though! can't wait for you to see/hear--i wrote harmonics into one song all due to you JK, remember before the EGO i couldn't do it?!?!
I SURE AM! everything is packed, sealed, and ready to move! I'm very excited! everything here is AWESOME! I'm so happy! I start school up again on the 18th, annnnd curves is...well...curves, but im also working for Dain's Dad's business with Dain, and at a catering place on the weekends! So im busy busy busy!
hows evrything with you guys?!
oh yeah! and the weather went from 90 degrees to about 30 in a week, but supposidly its supposed to get back up to 80 next week...whoi knows with the MN eh?
i'm kinda bored but actually, its a relief. haha. just say NO to in-house weddings for a while... in true nerd fashion i've been out star-gazing pretty much every night. other than that we've been doing a whole lotta nothing. i start online classes next week though. =) WOOOO!
yes! also, i'll mail you a copy of our record when it comes out...we are recording it tomorrow and monday! much love to you John King. you are a great inspiration.
Updates:
-I have one semester left of highschool!
-My hair is still dark
-I enetered a movie awhile ago into this young womens film festival AND IT GOT ACCPETED! the festival is in March!
-im still working atgood ol' curves
-Im filling out ALOT of college apps
-AND i miss you and the cuzzinnnnnz ALOT!
YaOoO. thanks for the comment :D . well uh the story on 'the second' is that im named after my grandpa whose name was Cass, and 'andra' in swedish means 'second' so im like 'cass the second'....hahahah cassie and cassandra were taken for artist names so it was the closest i could come up with! hope all is well and youre still rocking out with your moosic ---cassie
Yes, it was the February-band. They played on a fine small festival, organised by 'Kraak', a small Belgian (avant-garde) label.
We (Wannes and Pieter) liked it a lot!
Aren't you planning any tours in Europe and Belgium?
Last week, we were remembered about the guitar band in the Victoria-project here in Ghent, when we saw a band play a Rhys Chtaham piece here in the Vooruit. A great time that was indeed...
Thanks for the add! Hope you like our music, even though lyrics are in Dutch...
Currently, The Pillow Project is in a wide search to find interesting accordion music, and we really like this piece! Do you have any more accordion work in your rep?
hey uncle john!!!
i absolutely LOVE living in the city. lincoln park is amazing and i've been taking advantage of all the culture we have available here. its great. my dad and ali are coming to visit this weekend, which should be exciting. i'm thinking about swithching to a literature/ philosophy double-major, but we'll see....
can't wait to see the ny clan again!!!
lol,
liz
Thank you for requesting me as a friend. I am honored. This is a bit of a coincidence - I used to live in Westbeth. I of course am very familiar with Merce Cunningham and find your music very interesting!
Vanessa
John- i thought i would stop by to listen to your music again, and tell you how lovely and really interesting i think it is. i hope to make the Joe's Pub show in October. there is a brand new painting up on my page if you want to take a look. thanks for all your kind comments about my work in the past. cheers!
detail of the painting: BRIGHTNESS FALLS, 64" x 84", oil on canvas, 2005, by Samantha Keely Smith.
"Inspiration comes in waves, a tiny glimpse of what's beyond here and now today...
Man on a mission, transcending time, music is a language of the divine."
- Matthew Sax
I wish you happiness and good fortune for all of your days. Thank you for your friendship and support!
