POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE

Hailed by the Washington Post as a “welcome, edgy addition to the musical life of Washington,” Post-Classical Ensemble was co-founded by Angel Gil-Ordóñez and Joseph Horowitz in 2003 and has since been heard many times in and around the nation’s capital. “More than an orchestra,” it breaks out of classical music, with its implied notion of a high-culture remote from popular art. Its concerts regularly incorporate folk song, dance, film, poetry, and commentary in order to cultivate adventurous listeners. Of the orchestra’s past programs, “Csárdás!” — with the participation of the Gázsa Folk Band of Budapest— was recorded for national broadcast via Chicago’s WFMT, and has also been heard over National Public Radio. “Viva la Revolución!” presented the classic Mexican film Redes with Silvestre Revueltas’s score in live performance.

The Ensemble made its Kennedy Center debut in 2005 in “Celebrating Don Quixote,” featuring a commissioned production of Manuel de Falla’s puppet opera Master Peter’s Puppet Show. In 2007-2008, it collaborates with the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, the Music Center at Strathmore, and the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts (College Park).

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
THOMSON, V.: Plow that Broke the Plains (The) / The River	8.559291
THOMSON, V.: Plow that Broke the Plains (The) / The River (NTSC)	2.110521