“GUERRILLA NEW MUSIC” BRINGS FRESH AMMUNITION IN THE FIGHT FOR CLASSICAL LISTENERS
Great Noise Ensemble To Perform At Second Annual Capital Fringe Festival

MAY 20, 2007 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In the debate over the future of classical music, one thing is clear: sometimes it takes extreme measures to catch listeners’ attention. Great Noise Ensemble, Washington D.C.’s dynamic new music group, means to do just that with their ambitious program for this summer’s Second Annual Capital Fringe Festival, “Guerrilla New Music.”

Great Noise Ensemble will make their debut at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival with a program of music by both emerging artists and masters of new music. Sharing the program with renowned composers like Steve Reich and Robert Aitken are up and coming new composers such as D.J. Sparr, Blair Goins, Tom Schnauber, and Ken Ueno. The program will feature pieces from Great Noise Ensemble’s repertoire which have proven to be crowd favorites in the first two seasons of the group’s performance career.

“I want Great Noise Ensemble to be the D.C. area’s champion for new music,” says the group’s founder and Executive Director, Armando Bayolo. “What we want to do is to show people that ‘classical’ music is a living, vibrant tradition that is far from being the museum art of dead men played incredibly formally by people dressed very uncomfortably. We are competing against an established idea of concert art music which is monolithic. We are small and nimble. We blend in with the population– we all play classical and other types of music besides the new stuff. We rise and fight and then work towards changing hearts and minds. We’re ‘guerrilleros’ in that sense.”

Presented as a part of the 2nd Annual Capital Fringe Festival. July 19 – 29, 2007. For more information visit http://www.capfringe.org