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12/20/2017 Miller Theatre presents Darcy James Argue's innovative 18-piece big band SECRET SOCIETY, 2/3
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Jazz
February 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street, New York, NY)
Darcy James Argue's Secret SocietyDarcy James Argue’s Secret Society, an 18member tripleGrammynominated
postmodern big band "that makes expert use of the leader’s melodic ingenuity and the
enthusiasm of its young members” (The New Yorker), is marked by driving rhythms, a
powerful brass section, and harmonically rich orchestration. A genredefying sculptor of
timbre and texture, Argue is a visionary composer and bandleader whose skillful band
comprises the city’s top jazz soloists.
As part of this concert, Argue's Secret Society will perform in full the piece Tensile
Curves, which was written in honor of, and performed at, Newport's 60th anniversary in
2014. Argue describes the work as a 40minute meditation on Duke Ellington's
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, the performance of which famously caused utter
pandemonium at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Tensile Curves was cocommissioned by
the Vancouverbased Hard Rubber Orchestra and the Newport Jazz Festival.
ARTISTS:
Dave Pietro, winds
Rob Wilkerson, winds
Sam Sadigursky, winds
John Ellis, winds
Carl Maraghi, winds
Seneca Black, trumpet
12/20/2017 Miller Theatre presents Darcy James Argue's innovative 18-piece big band SECRET SOCIETY, 2/3
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David Smith, trumpet
Matt Holman, trumpet
Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
Mike Fahie, trombone
Ryan Keberle, trombone
Jacob Garchik, trombone
George Flynn, trombone
Sebastian Noelle, guitar
Adam Birnbaum, piano & keyboards
Matt Clohesy, bass
Jon Wikan, drum set
Darcy James Argue, composerconductor
DARCY JAMES ARGUE
Darcy James Argue made his mark with his critically acclaimed 2009 debut Infernal
Machines. 2013 saw the release of Brooklyn Babylon, which, like Infernal Machines before
it, earned the group nominations for both GRAMMY and JUNO Awards. His most recent
recording, Real Enemies, released in the fall of 2016, earned a third consecutive GRAMMY
nomination and has been praised as “wildly discursive, twitchily allusive, a work of furious
ambition… deeply in tune with our present moment” by The New York Times’s Nate
Chinen.
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Proclaimed “a mindblowing example of truly great, eradefining jazz composition, and a
contender for album of the year” by London Jazz News’s John L. Walters, Real Enemies is
a 13chapter exploration of America’s fascination with conspiracy theories and the politics
of paranoia. The album grew out of a multimedia work Argue cocreated with writer
director Isaac Butler and filmmaker Peter Nigrini for the 2015 BAM Next Wave Festival, in
a uniquely immersive experience that Stereophile’s Fred Kaplan called “a remarkable work,
maybe an oddball masterpiece: riveting, headspinning, at once spooky and witty,
abstrusely complex and foottappingly propulsive.” The multimedia performance was next
staged at the 2016 Holland Festival.
Secret Society maintains a busy touring schedule, with European, Canadian, and South
American tours, global festival performances, and four appearances at the Newport Jazz
Festival. Secret Society’s performances have been celebrated for their “slashing fury and
awesome fullensemble precision” (The New York City Jazz Record), “brilliant
soundscapes” (Globe and Mail, and “gorgeous musical details, maneuvers, and
transformations” (Ottawa Citizen). Their London Jazz Festival debut was declared “a
contender for gig of the year” by The Guardian.
In addition to his work with Secret Society, Argue has toured Australia and New Zealand
leading the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra and was featured in the Orquestra Jazz de
Matosinhos’ inaugural international Jazz Composers Forum. He has led performances of
his music by the WDR Big Band, the Danish Radio Big Band, the Frankfurt Radio Bigband,
the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, the Big Band Palácio das Artes, and the West
Point Jazz Knights. Argue has composed works for chamber duo and string quartet, art
songs for Newspeak, and created arrangements for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He
has conducted residencies and workshops at the University of North Texas, McGill
University, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Cornish College, Western Connecticut
State University, and with the Western Australian Jazz Youth Orchestra, among others. In
2012, he was composerinresidence for Missouri State University’s annual Composition
Festival.
In 2015, Argue was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition and a Doris
Duke Artist Award. He has received commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation, the
Jazz Gallery, the Manhattan New Music Project, the Jerome Foundation, and BAM, as well
as ensembles including the Danish Radio Big Band, the Hard Rubber Orchestra, the West
Point Jazz Knights, and the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos. He is the recipient of grants and
fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New Music USA, the Aaron
Copland Fund for Music, Composers Now, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Canada
Council for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony.
Upcoming Miller Theatre Concerts
PopUp Concerts
Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
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Mivos Quartet
Free Admission
Early Music
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
New York Polyphony: Tallis Lamentations
Single Tickets: $30$45
Composer Portraits
Thursday, March 1, 8:00 p.m.
Composer Portraits: Ann Cleare
Single Tickets: $20$30
Jazz
Saturday, March 3, 8:00 p.m.
Alfredo Rodríguez Trio
Single Tickets: $20$35
For the complete 20172018 season schedule,
please visit www.millertheatre.com
Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate
at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.
Directions and information are available online at www.millertheatre.com
or via the Miller Theatre Box Office, at 212.854.7799.
For further information, press tickets, and to arrange interviews,
please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/2061450 or [email protected].
For photos, please contact Lauren Bailey at 212/8541633 or [email protected].
For further information, press tickets, photos, and to arrange interviews,
please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/2061450 or [email protected].
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