The Medicine Show Theatre in collaboration with Vox Novus is presenting a Composer's Voice concert performing the works of Noah Creshevsky and Robert Voisey. The concert features world premieres of Creshevsky's composition Psalmus XXIII for voice and playback and I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now for electronic playback. Also being performed is Creshevsky's Jubilate for voice and electronic playback, based on pre-recorded samples that incorporate the extraordinary vocal abilities of Thomas Buckner (available on the compact disc Hyperrealism, Mutable Music 17516).

Also receiving their debuts are Nervous Energy for solo piano and Dos Palabras for voice and piano by Robert Voisey.

Among the performers are Beth Griffith, Andrew Bolotowsky, Rachel Carter White, and Ashlee Mack.

"An extraordinary American soprano, Beth Griffith sang with a focus and presence (as she did everything) that held a listener at rapt attention. Griffith, a Texan, recently returned to the United States after a 20-year career in Germany. It is our good fortune" --Mark Swed Los Angeles Times

Hyperrealism is an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment ("realism", handled in ways that are somehow exaggerated or excessive ("hyper").

"Imagine all the world's instruments, musicians and hemispheres lashed together into a giant mega-calliope, super-jukebox, or fantasmo-sampler. As called to action by a hyper-caffeinated virtuoso, it might sound something like these works by Noah Creshevsky." --Arved Ashby, Gramophone

"Creshevsky is as much a virtuoso of the sampler as anyone working in the field. But instead of using it for mere technical effects, he turns it into a tool of the imagination, creating impossible ensembles from some parallel universe. His sampler is a means toward not only superhuman virtuosity, but a new universality." --Kyle Gann, Village Voice

"[Creshevsky's compositions are]...constantly mutating and surprising--as though they were defining a new common practice from an alternative dimension... the work of an American original whose mastery of his vision is absolute." --Robert Carl, Fanfare

"[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers. Those voices should be heard, and they can even be reheard on the Vox Novus website (http://www.VoxNovus.com) that generously offers complete audio recordings and even full scores of works presented by Vox Novus at its concerts." -- John de Clef Pineiro, New Music Connoisseur (March 2003 Vol.11 No.1)

The Composer's Voice Concert featuring Noah Creshevsky and Robert Voisey will take place at the Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) on Saturday May 1, 2004 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $10.00 at the door.

For more information and tickets, please call Gary Heidt at 212-262-4216 or email at Medicineshowtheater@juno.com You may also visit the Medicine Show Theatre at http://www.medicineshowtheatre.org

For more information about Vox Novus or the "Composer's Voice" concert series please contact Robert Voisey at 917-804-3531 or email at RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com You may also visit the Vox Novus website at http://www.voxnovus.com

The Medicine Show Theatre in collaboration with Vox Novus is presenting a Composer's Voice concert performing the works of Benjamin Broening, Brad Garton, and John McGuire. The concert will feature the works of Benjamin Broening's Summer is late, for voice and tape, Brad Garton's Good News for voice, A Cappella for voice and tape by John McGuire, and an encore performance Noah Creshevsky's Psalmus XXIII for voice and tape. Beth Griffith will be the soprano performing.

"An extraordinary American soprano, Beth Griffith sang with a focus and presence (as she did everything) that held a listener at rapt attention. Griffith, a Texan, recently returned to the United States after a 20-year career in Germany. It is our good fortune" --Mark Swed Los Angeles Times

"A real highlight of the festival was the exceptional singer Beth Griffith... Her vocal artistry surpasses the conventional with an incredibly wide gamut of tonal and expressive articulation... All this seems to happen in a kind of mystical atmosphere brought about by the unique performance of Beth Griffith, as singer and as human being." --Suzana Martinakova Literarny Tyzdennik Bratislava:

"The piece that turned me to jelly, though, was A cappella, by John McGuire, recently resident in New York after decades in Cologne. With impassioned expressiveness, soprano Beth Griffith sang syncopated vowel sounds over a sparkling electronic background, medieval but vibrant in its contrapuntal austerity." --Kyle Gann The Village Voice

Benjamin Broening's compositions have been widely performed and broadcast across the United States and in Europe and Asia. He has compact discs being released on the Centaur and SEAMUS labels in 2004. Broening is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Computer Music Studios at the University of Richmond. He holds degrees from the University on Michigan, Cambridge University, Yale University, and Wesleyan University.

Brad Garton (b. 1957) received his BS in pharmacology from Purdue University, where he also worked towards an MS in psychoacoustics. He eventually entered the graduate music composition program at Princeton University (studying primarily with Paul Lansky and J. K. Randall), where he was awarded PhD in music composition. He is currently a professor on the faculty of Columbia University, where he also serves as Director of the Computer Music Center. He is an active composer and music software developer, and has worked as consultant on the design and installation of computer music facilities throughout the world.

"[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers. Those voices should be heard, and they can even be reheard on the Vox Novus website (http://www.VoxNovus.com) that generously offers complete audio recordings and even full scores of works presented by Vox Novus at its concerts." -- John de Clef Pineiro, New Music Connoisseur (March 2003 Vol.11 No.1)

The Composer's Voice Concert featuring Brad Garton and John McGuire will take place at the Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) on Sunday May 2, 2004 at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10.00 at the door.

For more information and tickets, please call Gary Heidt at 212-262-4216 or email at Medicineshowtheater@juno.com You may also visit the Medicine Show Theatre at http://www.medicineshowtheatre.org

For more information about Vox Novus or the "Composer's Voice" concert series please contact Robert Voisey at 917-804-3531 or email at RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com You may also visit the Vox Novus website at http://www.voxnovus.com