Liquid Music & Wild Up Present
ADAM TENDLER: INHERITANCES
Sunday, July 10, 7 pm
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
New works by commissioned composers Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover
After his father's unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring 'inheritance' itself. Woven into one intimate program, Inheritances tells a universal story of lineage, loss, and place—a meditation on confronting our past while moving into the future.
About Adam Tendler:
A recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists and "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living, modern, and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty U.S. states as part of a grassroots tour America 88x50, the subject of his memoir, 88x50. Tendler is an active soloist, recording artist, speaker, and educator. He recently released Liszt's Harmonie Poétiques et Religieuses (Steinway Label), Robert Palmer: Piano Music (New World Records), and published his second book, tidepools.
Select press:
“An envelope full of cash became a concert full of new music from pianist Adam Tendler, currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[The composers’] works mined notions of grief, loss and family connections, pushing aside convention for a no-holds-barred evening of music that emitted a melancholy beauty.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press
“In his own unique way, Adam Tendler has invited us all to participate in the transmutation of his extremely personal experience of ambiguous loss into a beautifully communal ritual of enduring connection — providing us all an overdue opportunity to utilize the emotionally alchemic potential of music to process our immeasurable and nebulous griefs. Accepting, processing, adjusting, and finding hope.” —Liquid Music Blog
“From grief to music: Adam Tendler and Liquid Music explore ‘inheritance,’ one piece at a time.” —MinnPost
Photos by Jayme Halbritter of Adam Tendler: Inheritances world premiere presented by Liquid Music at the Parkway Theater on April 23, 2022.