MONDAY JUNE 21st: XPA is excited to announce that Make Music New York is going to help Iannis Xenakis take over Central Park:

“NEW EVENTS
One of the most remarkable features of MMNY 2010 is a Central Park celebration of the
music of visionary Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. Funded by the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation, festivities will include a performance of Xenakis’s thunderous Persephassa (1969)
for six percussionists surrounding the Central Park Lake, with the audience listening from
rowboats in the middle of the water. Noted percussionists Steven Schick, formerly of the Bang
on a Can All-Stars, and Doug Perkins, formerly of So Percussion, lead the ensemble. Other
highlights include a puppet show version of Xenakis’s opera Oresteia in the Swedish Marionette
Cottage, directed by choreographer Luca Veggetti, the Yale Percussion Group at the Naumburg
Bandshell (4pm), and further performances to be announced.” -Make Music New York 2010