Join the PRISM Quartet and moderator Tom Moon, author of the New York Times bestseller 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, for a Listening Party and reception on Thursday, November 12 at 8 PM at the Germantown Branch of Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.
We’ll be spinning and discussing PRISM’s recent and upcoming albums, including our newest release, Generate Music. The evening will also feature a special live performance by PRISM of Martin Bresnick’s Every Thing Must Go and an excerpt from Burning Maps, and Moons, a work in progress by Paola Prestini. The Bresnick performance is a preview of And I Always Thought, an 80th birthday celebration concert for Martin at Merkin Hall in New York City on November 13.
And that’s not all: PRISM’s own Matthew Levy will give a short behind-the-scenes presentation on mixing and mastering the group’s many recordings for its in-house label, XAS Records.
About PRISM Quartet
“A bold ensemble that set the standard for contemporary-classical saxophone quartets” (The New York Times), PRISM Quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall, appeared as soloists with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, and held residencies at Curtis and Oberlin, with Juilliard upcoming. PRISM has commissioned more than 400 works and released nearly 40 recordings, including The Fifth Century with The Crossing, a 2018 Grammy winner. PRISM performs exclusively on Selmer saxophones.
About Tom Moon
Tom Moon has written about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and world music for over three decades. He was the Philadelphia Inquirer’s music critic from 1988 to 2004 and has contributed to NPR’s All Things Considered since 1996. Moon is the author of the New York Times bestseller 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die and a two-time ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner. A former saxophonist, he performed with Tony Bennett and the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.
