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Current Touring Programs
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Current Touring Programs
Below is a list of current booking offerings. To obtain detailed information, click on "More Information" under each program, or contact Nicole Borrelli Hearn at Opus 3 Artists.
Woodbox Beats & Balladry
The concert features tracks from his latest album, Woodbox
Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear Recordings). In Woodbox Beats
& Balladry, DBR's profusion of classical composing and performing
talents are uniquely exposed. Echoing his own career, the music contains
elements of classical minimalism, dance club beats, traditional ballads,
and thick distorted noise. Fitting coming from an artist who has performed
with everyone from the Seattle and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, to the
dancers Bill T. Jones and Savion Glover, to the composers Philip Glass
and Derek Bermel, to DJs Radar, Scientific, and Spooky, to the jazz singer
Cassandra Wilson, the pop-singer Lady Gaga, and the infamous 2 Live Crew.
Woodbox Beats & Balladry is aggressive, danceable, and fully
annotated. DBR's style and compositional process are reflected in his
scoring of each and every track on the album; he uses a variety of compositional
techniques and notation systems, including traditional, numerical, graphic,
and prose-based notation. "Woodbox Beats & Balladry is an
amalgam of what contemporary composers are doing and where contemporary
classical music might be going," says DBR.
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A Civil Rights Reader
A collection of DBR’s five string quartets which are
musical portraits of iconic figures from the civil rights era: Malcolm
X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Maya Angelou, and
Rosa Parks, performed by DBR (violin), DJ and string quartet. An important
component of the performances is illuminating conversations about the
works, between the performers and composer.
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Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1
A 25-minute concerto for orchestra and violin, this work
is an expression of DBR's roots in Haiti and features a drum kit and hip-hop/jazz
beats throughout. Loud, extroverted, and fiercely funky, the concerto
allows the solo violinist to show all of the many extended techniques
and possibilities for the instrument.
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Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln
A grandly conceived work that employs the expansiveness of
an eighteen-piece chamber orchestra, 4 soloists (violin, actor, singer
and piano), and video, Darwin's Meditation for The People of Lincoln sculpts
the sound of liberation, survival, and legacy in the image of two of its
most tireless proponents. Using texts drawn from both Darwin and Lincoln,
plus those of Obie Award-winning playwright Daniel Beaty, DBR creates
a brilliantly imagined conversation between two historical giants—and
a scintillating, spiritual, sonic vision of what it means to be free.
Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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DBR and Emeline Michel
A duo concert by DBR and the queen of Haitian pop, Emeline Michel, a singer/songwriter known for combining traditional Haitian rhythms with social, political and inspirational content and using a broad palette of musical styles. The program features DBR (violin), Emeline Michel (vocals), guitar, DJ, keyboard, drum and bass, offering selections of DBR’s latest works and collaborative arrangements of songs by Emeline Michel.
DBR 360°
DBR’s signature works arranged for DBR & THE MISSION,
feat. DBR (violin), keyboard, DJ, drum, bass and string quartet, performing
selections from 24 Bits: Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes, Event Pieces, One
Loss Plus, Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln and others.
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