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HomeStage Series: "Seven Limbs" by Douglas J. Cuomo (Online)
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Public: $10.00 Virginia Tech Students: Free

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech continues their 2021 Spring HomeStage Series with the world premiere of "Seven Limbs" with an online performance on Wednesday, February 3, 2021.

Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet join forces for American composer Douglas J. Cuomo's "Seven Limbs", a virtuosic tour de force filled with melodic beauty, rhythmic urgency, celebration, serenity, and unbridled joy. Juxtaposing Cline's inventive guitar playing and use of electronic effects with the Aizuri Quartet's classically-based, forward-thinking outlook, these five expert musicians approach a new musical landscape with an openness and meditative tranquility that parallels the Buddhist practice of the Seven Limbs.

The performance will be livestreamed from an East Coast studio and include a live conversation with the composer and musicians. Presented exclusively for the Moss Arts Center, the performance is the world premiere for "Seven Limbs" and one of only a small number of performances of the work featuring Cline.

Exploring an artistic space where the ground under the musicians' feet is always shifting a bit in unexpected ways requires a musical alertness and philosophical openness to whatever the moment brings. Inspired by this thinking, Cuomo creates a world of musical ideas and settings that allow the musicians to explore ideas of meditative tranquility, subtle levels of mind, the battle with inner demons, the circle of karma, and sudden, profound bolts of insight.

Cline plays both electric guitar with effects and acoustic guitar in the work. His music is both notated and improvised, following specific directions and guidelines in the score. The Aizuri Quartet's music is entirely notated, utilizing the full range of techniques, colors, and effects available to the 21st-century string quartet.

Structurally, the piece is a ritual in seven movements, based on the Seven Limbs, a fundamental Tibetan Buddhist practice of purification. The limbs are: prostration, offering, confession, rejoicing, requesting the turning of the wheel of dharma, beseeching the Buddha not to pass away, and dedication.

Tickets are $10.00 for the general public and free for Virginia Tech students.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=DDC002F0-1395-46AB-ABE5-C8E09BAAA5FE.

A recording will remain available to ticket holders for seven days following the live event.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/seven-limbs.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.