Tribute to Sarah Gibson, curated by Mona Tian

Program

Kay Rhie In The Dreams of Another
Kay Rhie Apertures
Nina Young Meditation
Ellen Reid West Coast Sky
M.A. Tiesenga rotoglyph
Nina Shekar Warm In My Veins
Nina Shekar Cajón
Sarah Gibson You Are Still Here

Details

Location Sierra Madre Playhouse
87 W Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, CA 91024
Date Monday, November 11, 2024
Time Event starts at 7:30pm

Musicians

Mona Tian violin, leader
Carson Rick viola
Mia Barcia-Colombo cello

About

A new series from Wild Up spotlights works by living composers based in Los Angeles and showcases Wild Up's unique blend of new music, theater, performance art, and pop. This month, curated by Wild Up’s Mona Tian. This concert, featuring a selection of chamber works and solo pieces by Los Angeles-based female composers of different generations is curated by violinist Mona Tian, joined by cellist Mia Barcia-Colombo and violist Carson Rick. The program pays tribute to Sarah Gibson, a dear friend and important collaborator, who passed away this year. Although she is no longer with us, her spirit lives on through her thoughtful and electrifying music. The other pieces on the program are chosen to represent our city's richly diverse sound and multi-cultural landscape.

About Endless Season

Art in LA has been about freedom and an abundant eschewing of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, humble, aspiring, a city appealing to the aesthete and the mystic in all of her citizens. Here, famous artists are also street-side sign painters, our best restaurants drive or live in strip malls, and our landmarks are geographical before architectural or fleetingly experiential instead of permanent monuments to their own lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.

Endless Season gathers around these uniquely West Coast traits. We ask lead artists to question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space of intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work. Together, we will explore the breadth of work and practices, discovering the many shapes of music and ideas in LA today.

Endless Season 2024 - 2025

Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.