Music/Words series: exploring connections between poetry and music November 21, 2010

Music/Words (www.musicwordsnyc.com), an interdisciplinary series founded and curated by NYCbased pianist Inna Faliks (www.innaonline .com), begins its third season on Sunday, November 21, at 6pm with a performance featuring Faliks at the piano along with readings by poets Sandra Beasley and Oni Buchanan at New York’s Corne lia Stre e t Café . The varied program will include Chaconne by composer Sofia Gubaidulina, two Lisz t Etudes, the short work Cathedral Waterfall (from the Etudes) by Augusta Read Thomas and Rave l's Gaspard de la Nuit (featured on Faliks’ recent CD release, Sound of Verse on MSR Records). The Cornelia Street Café (www.corneliastreetcafe.com) is located at 29 Cornelia St., NYC. Tickets (212-989-9319) are $20.

MUSIC/WORDS celebrates links between poetry and music by presenting collaborations between exciting solo performers and acclaimed contemporary poets in the form of a live recital/reading. Inna Faliks created the series in order to foster a chance for poets and musicians to work together and inspire each other, as well as to allow different audiences to come together for these musical-literary events. New published and unpublished works are read alongside performances of music old and new and connected by content, intuition, and inspiration. According to Faliks, “I pair performers together based on their personalities and styles, and encourage them to choose the poems and music in varied ways that are strongly and intuitively connected.”

In past seasons, Music/Words has featured collaborations between acclaimed poets such as Jesse Ball, Deborah Landau and Mark Levine, and musicians such as Wendy Warner, Leon Livshin and Angelina Gadeliya, at performance spaces such as Le Poisson Rouge and Cornelia Street Café. WFMT Radio in Chicago featured Music/Words in regular live broadcasts throughout the month of April 2010. This remaining three concerts of this season will be held on March 4 (featuring Vadim Neselovskyi, jazz pianist, and Inna Faliks); April 8 (featuring Sharan Leventhal, violin); and the season finale, in May, (Inna Faliks, poet TBA).

Official Website: http://www.musicwordsnyc.com