

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: BlackBox Ensemble Presents: WordPlay
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm – Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: BlackBox Ensemble performs works by Andile Khumalo, Elliott Carter, Paul Novak and Unsuk
Chin.About this EventBlackBox Ensemble presents an evening of contemporary chamber music exploring the expressive relationship between the human voice and instrumental sound. Across works that move between narration, song, and fractured language, the ensemble becomes an extension of speech itself—echoing, distorting, and illuminating the voice.In Andile Khumalo’s Shades of Words, scored for narrator and ensemble, the instruments trace and refract the rhythms of language in a score “rich with mysterious word painting.” The work sets poems by Alexandra Zelman–Doring, weaving storytelling with vivid sonic color.The program also features the New York premiere of a diagnosis and the world premiere of when i was nine by Paul Novak, drawn from a larger cycle developed during his doctoral work at University of Chicago. These intimate works explore memory and perception through spare, precise musical gestures.In A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Elliott Carter sets poems by Elizabeth Bishop, creating what he described as a musical “mirror of the words.” The title—drawn from Bishop’s poem Insomnia—suggests a reflective surface in which language and music refract one another, revealing new emotional depths within the poetry.The evening concludes with Akrostichon–Wortspiel by Unsuk Chin, a fantastical cycle inspired by The Endless Story by Michael Ende and Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Across seven scenes from these fairytales, language is dismantled and reassembled—words reversed, fragmented, or reduced to their sonic elements—while the ensemble shifts through finely tuned microtonal landscapes. The soprano navigates between these altered pitch worlds, embodying seven different emotional states ranging “from the bright to the grotesque”.The performance of A Mirror on Which to Dwell is generously supported by the Amphion Foundation.PROGRAMAndile Khumalo, Shades of Words (2011)Elliott Carter, A Mirror On Which to Dwell (1975)Paul Novak, when i was nine (2025)Paul Novak, a diagnosis (2024/25)Unsuk Chin, Akrostichon-Wortspiel (1991, rev. 1993)I Hide and SeekII The Puzzle of the Three Magic GatesIII The Rules of the Game – sdrawkcab emiTIV Four Seasons in Five VersesV Domifare SVI The Game of ChanceVII From the Old Time
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/blackbox-ensemble-presents-wordplay/100001985004944223
- **Event Categories**: art, live-music, fine-arts, literary-art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.85, max: 28.52, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
- **lat**: 40.75612750000001
- **long**: -73.997305
- **full address**: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Blackbox Ensemble (https://allevents.in/org/blackbox-ensemble/18589709)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 17.85 up to 28.52 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Blackbox Ensemble
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, live-music, fine-arts, literary-art, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about BlackBox Ensemble Presents: WordPlay ?
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