Dave Bryant - keyboards / Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet / Tom Hall - tenor saxophone / Curt Newton - drumset / Jeff Song - cello

Improvised music: Dave Bryant’s Third Thursdays series

Charlie Kohlhase and Seth Meicht - saxophones / Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet, flugelhorn / Bill Lowe - trombone / Josiah Reibstein - tuba / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Tony Leva - bass / Curt Newton - drums

Seth Meicht - tenor saxophone / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Nate McBride - bass / Curt Newton - drumset

Dave Bryant - piano / Stephen Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn / Eric Barber - tenor and soprano saxophones / Kit Demos - bass / Curt Newton - drumset

Part of the Third Thursdays music series

$10 admission

Celebrating the release of our new recording “A Second Life”

Charlie Kohlhase and Seth Meicht - saxophones / Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet, flugelhorn / Bill Lowe - trombone / Josiah Reibstein - tuba / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Tony Leva - bass / Curt Newton - drums

Celebrating the release of our new recording, “A Second Life”

Charlie Kohlhase and Seth Meicht - saxophones / Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet, flugelhorn / Bill Lowe - trombone / Josiah Reibstein - tuba / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Tony Leva - bass / Curt Newton - drums

General admission tickets $15 in advance, $20 day of show. Students $10, under 18 free.

Celebrating the upcoming release of our our recording, “A Second Life”

Charlie Kohlhase and Seth Meicht - saxophones / Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet, flugelhorn / Bill Lowe - trombone / Josiah Reibstein - tuba / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Tony Leva - bass / Curt Newton - drums

In this follow-up to his 2018 MIT solo concert (video, audio), percussionist Curt Newton returns to the sublime sacred space of the MIT Chapel for a sonic meditation on climate change and the polycrisis of our times. What can the practices of slowing down, improvisation, playfulness, and seeking resonance offer as we navigate this urgent moment?

Sponsored by MIT Artists Beyond the Desk and The MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life.

This event will be livestreamed at https://mit.zoom.us/j/97840501736

About the MIT Chapel

“Waking Up!” is an hour-long jazz suite inspired by Greta Thunberg's galvanizing "How dare you!" speech at the UN (2019). The work is a reflection on the need for deep witness and collective action, centering improvisation as a language of exploration and possibilities for these times. A recording of Waking Up! was released on Bandcamp in 2023.

The Five Agents ensemble is Jerry Sabatini (trumpet), Seth Meicht (tenor saxophone), Anthony Leva (bass), Curt Newton (drumset), and Eric Hofbauer (guitar, composition).

This performance will be accompanied by a UMass Amherst Jazz Dance class taught by Lauren Cox.

Kicking off the event “Awakening” (working title). The schedule is:

4:30 p.m. — Waking Up: A Jazz Performance by Eric Hofbauer / The Five Agents

5:30­ p.m. — Ripple Effects: Reflections on Water in Story and Sound. Part of the multi-year arts and humanities project Elements with Evan MacCarthy and Marjorie Rubright from The Renaissance of the Earth

6 p.m. – Landscape of Fear, Saxophone performance with Jonathan Hulting-Cohen 

6:30 p.m. – Ghost Ensemble, performance with Ben Richter

“Waking Up!” is an hour-long jazz suite inspired by Greta Thunberg's galvanizing "How dare you!" speech at the UN (2019). The work is a reflection on the need for deep witness and collective action, centering improvisation as a language of exploration and possibilities for these times. A recording of Waking Up! was released on Bandcamp in 2023.

The Five Agents ensemble is Jerry Sabatini (trumpet), Seth Meicht (tenor saxophone), Anthony Leva (bass), Curt Newton (drumset), and Eric Hofbauer (guitar, composition).

Immediately following the performance, Eric Hofbauer and Curt Newton will present a talk-back discussion on arts activism and the climate crisis.

Admission is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. For more information, please contact ClarkArts@clarku.edu or (508) 793-7349.

The Point01 Percent series presents:

8:30pm: Trio: Pandelis Karayorgis - piano / Jef Charland - bass / Curt Newton - drumset

7:30pm: Porch Trio + Dan O’Brien: Jorrit Djikstra - saxophones + lyricon / Dan O’Brien - saxophone + clarinets / Nate McBride - bass / Eric Rosenthal

Firebath is: Tony Malaby, Sam Childs, Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones / Zoe Rose de Paz, Julian Seney- violin / Nate McBride, Bruno Raberg, Louis Stringer - bass / Tatiana Castro Mejia - piano / Nat Magavuro, Curt Newton - drumset

$20

Improvised music with Jeff Platz, guitar / Brendan Carniaux, saxophone / Chris Sadlers, bass / Curt Newton, drumset

Double bill with Tony Malaby + Michael Attias Quartet

Large group improvised music with just a touch of compositional structure.

Firebath is: Tony Malaby, Sam Childs, Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones / Amelia Hollander - viola / Zoe Rose de Paz - violin / Max Ridley, Brittany Karlson, Akiva Jacobs - bass / Tatiana Castro Mejia - piano / Nat Magavuro, Curt Newton - drumset