Composers Concordance & Joe’s Pub Present Vivaldi’s Hot House Sound Liberation Feat. Lara St. John

For Immediate Release – New York, NY – On March 9th at 7pm, Joe’s Pub and Composers Concordance present ‘Vivaldi’s Hot House’. This composition by Gene Pritsker is a starting point for this eclectic event with violin doyenne Lara St. John and Pritsker’s ensemble Sound Liberation. The concert will feature a genre defying repertoire of music inspired by various composers from the past including Mendelssohn, Mozart and Beethoven, reinterpreted with jazz, metal, hip-hop etc. Featured singers include operatic soprano Adriana Valdés, baritone Charles Coleman, the r&b vocals of David Banks and the soulful jazz voice of Sonya Hensley. Five poets will also be part of this performance: John Pietaro, Imelda O’Reilly, Erik T. Johnson, Robert C. Ford and Kelsea Brunner. Pritsker will perform on guitar, and as a rapper, and will be joined by Franz Hackl on trumpet, Geoffrey Burleson on piano, Amanda Ruzza on bass and John Ferrari on drums.

St. John will also be featured on ‘Bartok’s Transylvania’ inspired by Bela Bartok and ‘So Very Expressive’ based on the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s Spring Sonata as well as other music of Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

This event is co-presented with the contemporary music organization Composers Concordance, now celebrating their 40th season.