Protostar Innovative Series
Season 56
PROTOSTAR INNOVATIVE SERIES
ABEL SELAOCOE and BANTU ENSEMBLE* | FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES* | ZAKIR HUSSAIN & THIRD COAST PERCUSSION | CAMERON CARPENTER*
Cross-disciplinary, collaborative, multimedia art at its finest! The ProtoStar Innovative Series celebrates pioneering and dynamic musicians and performing artists. This eclectic collection of creative music and performing arts is sponsored by the ProtoStar Foundation.
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*LJMS debut
ABEL SELAOCOE and BANTU ENSEMBLE
Thursday, October 24 · 7:30PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
With his Bantu Ensemble, rising star cellist, singer, improviser, and composer Abel Selaocoe moves with virtuosic grace across genres, broadening both the scope and audience of classical music while blending African and Western European traditions. “One of the most captivating performers [of] the classical music world … other genres can claim him too, but part of what makes him so compelling is the way all those labels seem to dissolve in front of him,” says The Guardian in its review of Selaocoe’s debut album. “Nobody else could have made this.”
FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES
OPERA SUITE IN CONCERT
Sunday, January 19, 2025 · 7 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
Terence Blanchard with The E-Collective, Turtle Island Quartet & Andrew F. Scott
Justin Austin, baritone
Adrienne Danrich, soprano
Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up In My Bones made history in 2021 as the first work written by a Black composer to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera. This “opera in jazz,” as Blanchard describes it, tells the true coming-of-age story of a young boy growing up in the face of great adversity and forging his personal identity.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN & THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
Saturday, March 8, 2025 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
Third Coast Percussion has commissioned Zakir Hussain to compose a major new work that blends the sounds of tabla with a classically trained percussion ensemble. A shared spirit of collaboration and curiosity reverberates among the five artists who will share the stage for the first time as part of a special double bill concert presentation.
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
CAMERON CARPENTER, organ
METROPOLIS
Friday, May 16, 2025 · 7:30 PM
St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
Immerse yourself in the dystopian universe of Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction classic. Pioneering organist and composer Cameron Carpenter performs his original score for solo organ as the film is projected on a big screen.
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