Saturday, April 23 at Sundown
Sunday, April 24, 2022 2pm
Austin Central Library
Free and open to the public
Tickets at https://www.density512.org/tickets/eva
Additional public programs include a book talk and multiple screenings of the Density512-produced documentary Remembrance and Ritual: Reflections on Eva and the Angel of Death

Density512 will continue to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 situation in Austin, TX. If necessary to the health of our community, this performance will be postponed.

A new opera by Austin-based composer Thomas Yee and librettist Aiden Feltkamp, Eva and the Angel of Death portrays the true story of Eva Mozes Kor, a child survivor of the Holocaust and Josef Mengele’s medical experiments. Fifty years after her liberation, Kor returned to Auschwitz to announce her message of forgiveness, peace, hope, and healing. After Kor’s passing on an educational tour to Poland in 2019, we will continue her legacy through this communal artistic experience. In Kor’s own words from her 1995 Declaration of Amnesty, “No more wars, no more experiments without informed consent, no more gas chambers, no more bombs, no more hatred, no more killing, no more Auschwitzes.

Saturday, April 23 at Sundown
Sunday, April 24, 2022 2pm
Austin Central Library
Free and open to the public
Tickets at https://www.density512.org/tickets/eva
Additional public programs include a book talk and multiple screenings of the Density512-produced documentary Remembrance and Ritual: Reflections on Eva and the Angel of Death

Density512 will continue to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 situation in Austin, TX. If necessary to the health of our community, this performance will be postponed.

A new opera by Austin-based composer Thomas Yee and librettist Aiden Feltkamp, Eva and the Angel of Death portrays the true story of Eva Mozes Kor, a child survivor of the Holocaust and Josef Mengele’s medical experiments. Fifty years after her liberation, Kor returned to Auschwitz to announce her message of forgiveness, peace, hope, and healing. After Kor’s passing on an educational tour to Poland in 2019, we will continue her legacy through this communal artistic experience. In Kor’s own words from her 1995 Declaration of Amnesty, “No more wars, no more experiments without informed consent, no more gas chambers, no more bombs, no more hatred, no more killing, no more Auschwitzes.

Jacob Schnitzer, guest curator and conductor

ADELIIA FAIZULINA Glacier in the Sky (2021)
CHAYA CZERNOWIN Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of (2015)
ADELIIA FAIZULINA Soo Anaso (2016)
VIET CUONG Cymbalisms (2008)
ADELIIA FAIZULINA Tatar Folk Tales (2018) 

Density512
presented by Golden Hornet and KMFA 89.5
Set TBD

W.A. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
with Junyi Nie, piano

DEVIN CHOLODENKO Mountains in the Distance (2021)

Presented by Density512
Sunday, January 30, 2021 4pm
Draylen Mason Music Studio, 41 Navasota St. Austin, TX 78702
Tickets $10 and up at https://www.density512.org/tickets/portal

The devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on working class people cannot be overstated. From financial fallout, to loneliness, to the world shutting down our plans, no one has not been affected somehow by this trauma. As we look forward longing for normality, Matthew Lyons’s new work The Portal wonders if “nothing could be worse than a return to normality.

Through works by local composers Matthew Lyons, James Tabata, and Nicholas Perry Clark; works by acclaimed composers Fanny Hensel and George Lewis; and words by Arundhati Roy, Matthew Lyons, and Gwendolyn Brooks, this concert bridges us into our return and reconciles with the past, present, and future of the pandemic.

MATTHEW LYONSThe Portal
NICHOLAS PERRY CLARK Ethically Egregious
FANNY HENSEL/CLARK excerpts from Oratorium: Musik für
die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie 1831 (Music for the Dead during the Cholera Pandemic 1831)
JAMES TABATA Agnus
GEORGE LEWIS Anthem

Jacob Schnitzer, guest panelist with:
Dr. Art Markman (Vice Provost and Professor of Psychology, UT-Austin)
Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein (Associate Professor of History, UT-Austin)
Dr. Thomas B. Yee (composer)
moderated by Dr. Robert Abzug ( Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies Emeritus, UT-Austin)

On January 27th, the 77th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is proud to host a virtual documentary screening of Remembrance and Ritual: Reflections on Eva and the Angel of Death, created by Austin-based new music collective Density512 to give context to their April 2022 premiere of the Holocaust Remembrance opera Eva and the Angel of Death by composer Thomas B. Yee and librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Art Markman (Vice Provost and Professor of Psychology, UT-Austin), Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein (Associate Professor of History, UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas B. Yee (composer), Jacob Schnitzer (conductor), and moderated by Dr. Robert Abzug ( Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies Emeritus, UT-Austin). This event will mark the EP release of Arias from Eva and the Angel of Death on Density512's new music media and record label DensitySOUND.

Sponsored by: Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; Department of American Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies; Humanities Institute

December 19, 2021 4pm
Recording Session and Performance
Draylen Mason Music Studio, 41 Navasota St. Austin, TX 78702
Tickets $10 and up at https://www.density512.org/tickets/akousmatika-recording

The first LP-length studio concept album by Density512, Akousmatika explores what sound teaches us about our relationship with the physical world and ourselves. The album features Density512-commissioned works by Kevin Michael Kay, and Chiyoko Slzavnics and revivals of experimental classics by influential voices from the 16th Century to today (Pauline Oliveros, Ben Johnston, Nicola Vicento). Akousmatika will be recorded in part with a live audience; Density512 will host live Deep Listening sessions in locations throughout the natural landscape in Central Texas.

NiCOLA VICENTO/Nicholas Perry Clark: Musica prisca caput* (1555)
PAULINE OLIVEROS Tuning Meditation (1971)
KEVIN MICHAEL KAY worldlines* (2020)
CHIYOKO SZLAVNICS new work* (2021)
BEN JOHNSTON Chamber Symphony (1992)
Additional work TBA
*Density512 commission

Presented by Density512
AudioLog is a sonic time-capsule for the stories of people like you in our community. You send us a short voice-memo telling us a story from the previous year and we will transform it into communal sound-art. Phase one of AudioLog will be released in digital podcast installments, phase two will feature live one-at-a-time micro-performances at the Draylen Mason Music Studio on October 29, 2021 by registration.

Phase 1: Digital AudioLog
Podcast featuring your submitted stories
Share your story at (512) 710-4745

Phase 2: Live Installation
October 29, 2021 One-on-one performances by Registration
Draylen Mason Music Studio, 41 Navasota St, Austin, TX 78702

GABRIELLA SMITH Tumblebird Contrails (2018)

POSTPONED
Draylen Mason Music Studio, 41 Navasota St. Austin, TX 78702
The devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on working class people cannot be overstated. From financial fallout, to loneliness, to the world shutting down our plans, no one has not been affected somehow by this trauma. As we look forward longing for normality, Matthew Lyons’s new work The Portal wonders if “nothing could be worse than a return to normality.

Through works by local composers Matthew Lyons, James Tabata, and Nicholas Perry Clark; works by acclaimed composers Fanny Hensel and George Lewis; and words by Arundhati Roy, Matthew Lyons, and Gwendolyn Brooks, this concert bridges us into our return and reconciles with the past, present, and future of the pandemic.

MATTHEW LYONSThe Portal
NICHOLAS PERRY CLARK Ethically Egregious
FANNY HENSEL/CLARK excerpts from Oratorium: Musik für
die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie 1831 (Music for the Dead during the Cholera Pandemic 1831)
JAMES TABATA Agnus
GEORGE LEWIS Anthem

SAMUEL BARBER Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance

Streaming available September 2021
Presented by Density512 in collaboration with American Berserk Theatre
Commissioned by Gilbert and Sullivan Austin

Music by Arthur Sullivan and arranged/reimagined by Nicholas Perry Clark
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert with new dialogue by Kaci Beeler and Roy Janik

American Berserk Theatre and Density512 team up to produce The Computer Pirates of Penzance Ave, a re-imagination of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan’s iconic comic wit and whimsical music, ABT and Density512 will collaborate to create a special blend of theater, comedy, music, and cinema.

JACOB SCHNITZER Associate Director and Editor

Jacob will study with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Bramwell Tovey at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix - Académie internationale de musique et de danse. . Participation moved to hybrid format due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Chevalier St-Georges Symphony no. 2, 1st movement
Rossini Barber of Seville, overture
Beethoven Egmont Overture
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de Printemps
Beethoven Symphony no. 3
Brahms Symphony no. 4
Debussy Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
Barber Adagio
Caroline Shaw Entracte

Jacob joins Ryan Hance, host of the podcast EQ Book Club which explores emotional intelligence in all of its forms.

Topics: Solitude and Community, Questioning to Connect, Leading a Diverse Team, Visualization as a Tool for Leadership, Getting Used to Being Alone with Your Brain, Stepping Back and Realigning Your Relationships

JACOB SCHNITZER Fanfare for Brass Ensemble (2015)
Francisco Maia, conductor
Mark Bartley, Music Director

EVA AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH
Thomas B. Yee, Composer
Aiden K. Feltkamp, Librettist

DIRECTED AND EDITED BY
Jacob Schnitzer

A documentary film co-directed by Jacob Schnitzer, Thomas Yee, and Farid Zarrinabadi, reveals the creative process and artistic intentions behind Density512’s world premiere performance of the Holocaust remembrance opera Eva and the Angel of Death, previously scheduled for April 2020 and postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. The documentary includes exclusive discussions with composer Thomas B. Yee, librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp, mezzo-soprano Page Stephens (Eva Mozes Kor), baritone Jawan Morris (Dr. Josef Mengele), soprano Julia Taylor (Miriam Mozes and Dorothy), and conductor Jacob Schnitzer, along with recorded excerpts from the opera and archival footage of Holocaust survivor and educator Eva Mozes Kor.