Gregory Spears’ <em>Seven Days</em> - 92Y, New York
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Gregory Spears’ Seven Days

A free music app for iPhone and Android

Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Available now. The first complete cycle begins Monday morning, November 15 and repeats weekly.

A new cycle of solo piano pieces created as a weeklong listening experience to attune us to the passing of time.

Gregory Spears’ music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times) and “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker). His new work, Seven Days, was conceived as a Monday through Sunday listening experience that tunes us in to both the present moment as well as the cycle of the week. Each of the work’s 21 movements, most lasting around five minutes, are meant to be experienced using 92Y’s custom-designed app wherever we are at three points throughout the day – morning, afternoon and evening – over the course of seven days.

Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has been called “a musician with fiercely original ideas about the music he plays” (Financial Times). He is acclaimed as a champion of new music and for his innovative programming and creative collaborations.

The artwork on the Seven Days app is by Gloria Maximo, whose work has been presented at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and more.

More about Seven Days from composer Gregory Spears.

“Seven Days is a weeklong listening experience that you are invited to live within – an artwork you are invited to “do.” The piece asks us to contemplate time and our surroundings in the context of a collective listening ritual. Begin the week on Monday by listening to Monday Morning. Return that afternoon to listen to Monday Afternoon and then again at night for Monday Evening. Repeat this schedule Tuesday through Sunday to experience a new Morning, Afternoon, and Evening movement for each day. The cycle repeats again each Monday morning.

The aim is to tune in to the passing of the week and, in the words of Thomas Merton, ‘the “now” that cuts Time like a blade.’ The experience invites music to inhabit and structure our everyday — and to meet us where we are in the world.”

Hear “Friday Afternoon” from Seven Days:

Gregory Spears

Gregory Spears is a New York-based composer whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times) …

Gregory Spears

Gregory Spears is a New York-based composer whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” (The Boston Globe). He has been commissioned by The New York Philharmonic, Bang on a Can, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seraphic Fire, The Crossing, BMI/Concert Artists Guild, Vocal Arts DC, New York Polyphony, The New York International Piano Competition, the JACK Quartet, and the New York Youth Symphony among others. His music is published by Schott Music and Schott PSNY. His latest opera Castor and Patience was written in collaboration with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Commissioned by Cincinnati Opera, it will premiere in summer 2022. Spears’ opera Fellow Travelers, written in collaboration with Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2016 and has been produced by the Prototype Festival (NYC), The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Madison Opera, and Arizona Opera with productions this season at Florida Grand Opera and Opera Columbus. It was hailed as “one of the most accomplished new operas I have seen in recent years” (Chicago Tribune) and an opera that “seems assured of lasting appeal” (The New York Times). The premiere was featured in The New York Times’ Best in Classical Music for 2016, and Cincinnati Opera released a commercial recording in 2017. Other operas include Jason and the Argonauts written with Kathryn Walat and Paul’s Case, (also written with Walat), which was described as a “masterpiece” and a “gem” (New York Observer) with “ravishing music” (The New York Times). A recording of Paul’s Case was released in 2019. His Requiem was released on New Amsterdam records in 2011.
 

Pedja Muzijevic

Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony …

Pedja Muzijevic

Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92Y and The Frick Collection in New York, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, Phillips Collection and National Gallery in Washington, DC, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto K. 503 with Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label. Pedja’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera National de Paris, as well as Holland, Lucerne and Melbourne festivals.

Highlights of the pandemic 2020/21 season are virtual solo recitals for 92Y, Spoleto Festival USA, Maverick Concerts and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Bach Festival, chamber music for Schubert Club in St. Paul and Chopin and Mozart piano concertos with Atlanta and Billings Symphonies. In the summer of 2021, Pedja returned to Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, Verbier Festival Academy and Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine.

Highlights of 2021/22 season are performances of Framing Time, staging of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories with lighting design by Burke Brown and choreography by Cesc Gelabert in Barcelona and Madrid, concerts for Castleton Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Chamber Music Chicago, as well as Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto with Battle Creek Symphony and Anne Harrigan for the Gilmore Piano Festival.

As the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York and artistic advisor at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, Pedja curated and produced film shoots for dozens of musicians at various locations in New York City and Boston.

Gloria Maximo

Gloria Maximo lives and works in Queens, NY. Her work has been presented at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, IL …

Gloria Maximo

Gloria Maximo lives and works in Queens, NY. Her work has been presented at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Simone Subal Gallery, New York; Metro Pictures, New York; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; The Queens Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; among others. Her work has been written about in publications including Portable Gray, The Offing, The New Yorker Magazine, and CURA Magazine. She has participated in artist residencies including the Queens Museum Studio Program and the Shandaken Paint School Fellowship. Maximo currently teaches at SUNY Purchase.

Please note that all 92Y regularly scheduled in-person programs are suspended.