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Sep17

performing with Joe Philips' Numinous

Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Joseph C. Phillips Jr.‘s ensemble Numinous returns to Roulette to present excerpts from his opera So Far Behind Now Because Then and compositions by collaborators George Brandon, Anthony Branker, Bob Goldberg, and Steven Swartz (from Phillip Jr.’s call-for-scores & Numinous Initiative). All four are world premieres, the one by Branker being the premiere in this specific instrumentation.

In the second set, Numinous will perform a few excerpts from the first opera in the 1619 opera cycle, So Far Behind Now Because of Then by Joseph C Phillips Jr.. Reduced from the original 50-person orchestra to a 21-person chamber ensemble, the performance will feature sopranos Rebecca L. Hargrove and Ariadne Greif singing excerpts from their roles in the opera. The opera is centered on a Black family’s experience living in a sundown town outside of Chicago in 1948. This performance will be a first chance to publicly hear selections from the opera and to learn more about the development of the cycle and how “the past is still present.”