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Windward Passages
September 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
ShapeShifter Lab
On September 13, join us for Windward Passages, a concert featuring scenes from pianist Dave Burrell’s groundbreaking jazz opera. Written in collaboration with Swedish poet and librettist Monika Larsson, Windward Passages is a deeply personal, major work that presents a socio-political coming-of-age-story following a Black American family’s migration from Harlem to Honolulu just as Hawaii transitions into the fiftieth American state. Remarkably, despite its position as Burrell’s life-defining composition and several stagings in Europe, Windward Passages has never been performed in its full, orchestrated capacity in the United States. For this event, Monika Larsson will introduce and set the narrative context for each piece in the performance. Dave Burrell will lead the ensemble at the piano. Doors 7:30, music 8pm.
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Anh Vo: Tỳ Bà Hành…But Alas There Was No Music
October 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Emily Harvey Foundation
FourOneOne presents Anh Vo: Tỳ Bà Hành…But Alas There Was No Music, a rare opportunity to experience this quintessential piece from the endangered northern Vietnamese chamber music form ca trù, which has not been performed publicly in its entirety since 1945. Tỳ Bà Hành is the latest installment in performance artist Anh Vo’s ongoing dialogue with ca trù. Banned in the 20th century by the Communist government because of its perceived associations with elitist antiquity, prostitution and opium culture, very few knowledgeable ca trù practitioners now exist. Yet ca trù persists, austere and trance-like, built on intricate poetic meters and the striking interplay of female voice, lute and drum. Doors 3:30, music 4pm.
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Fay Victor's Black Sonic Space
Residency
November 1, 2026–January 31, 2027
Over the past 25 years, vocalist, composer and educator Fay Victor has expanded the terrain of America’s Black vocal tradition through a kaleidoscopic career—enveloping her musical upbringings in Brooklyn, Trinidad and Tobago, and Amsterdam’s vibrant “New Dutch Swing” scene of the 1990s. Her singular “everything is everything” approach—from speech to scat, song to call-to-action and interrogations into who gets to make “new music compositions”—has won her a devoted audience over a dozen albums as bandleader. Victor is an electrifying live performer, whose voice can turn from crystalline to gritty within the same breadth. Cecil Taylor was once moved to approach her after a set and exclaim, “Betty Carter would have SHOT you!” From November 2026 through January 2027, her residency with FourOneOne foregrounds the creative histories central to her practice, with the help of collaborators and friends including Terry Jenoure, Lyndon Achee, Jessie Cox, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Devon Gates, Angelica Sanchez, Lesley Mok, and more.
