Noise News

GNE is starting a great new program– this year at the following concerts, Great Noise Ensemble will be offering FREE ADMISSION to students 17 & younger as long as they’re accompanied by a ticketed adult.

This year, we’re going to be bringing you perspectives from some of the performers you’ll be seeing on stage at Great Noise Ensemble’s concerts. We’re starting off the year with a perspective from someone you actually hear a lot from already, but Katherine Kellert isn’t just in charge of our marketing and concert production, she’s also GNE’s clarinetist. Here’s why she’s excited about performing Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians on our upcoming September 9th concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring.

Great Noise Ensemble opens its seventh season with a concert featuring a world premiere, a remembrance September 11th, and a birthday wish to composer Steve Reich.

Marc Mellits’s works come at you with a drive and groove that’s impossible to ignore, and are not only fun and challenging to play, but really, really fun to listen to. We’ll be recording his piece Five Machines, scored for amplified bass clarinet/soprano sax, electric guitar, amplified cello, amplified bass, amplified marimba, and amplified piano.

Our third composer profile features another of our favorite artists to work with, Robert Paterson. Our CD will be featuring his piece, Looney Tunes, which is about as fun a piece of music as we’ve ever played.When you get a percussionist/rock drummer as cool as Rob is as a composer you know that his pieces are going to be fun to play, but they’re also very challenging and really make us work– we can’t wait to get cracking on getting this down for the CD.

Continuing our series profiling the composers on our upcoming CD which we’re funding through Kickstarter (GO DONATE!! We’re getting close to the deadline!) , we’d like to introduce you to one of our favorites, D.J. Sparr if you’re not hip to his music already. His compositions are some of the most groovin’ new works we’ve [...]

We thought you might like to know a little more about the composers we’re going to be featuring on our upcoming CD, which we’re trying to fund through Kickstarter. If you haven’t visited out project site yet, please do and please donate to the cause. We’re very, very excited about the project and we can’t [...]