Tunes on the Terrace: featuring the Arcana New Music Ensemble

In collaboration with Bowerbird, Stoneleigh is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing the music of Pauline Oliveros’s works The Well and The Gentle. Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s, she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, and poets gathered in San Francisco. In the ’60s, she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual.  

Written between 1982-1983 and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble, The Well and The Gentle are two of Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations – text-based, intuitive pieces rooted in listening with minimal instructions.  

Gates open at 5:30 PM. Come early to picnic on the lawn or wander the summer garden. The concert begins at 7:00pm on the Pool House terrace. All tickets are general admission and include seating.

Please note: the rain date for this event is Sunday, June 14.