Julie and Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist
Concert Series is
co-produced by composers Julie Harting and Elizabeth Adams. Harting and Adams
met in 2006 while participating in a concert at Judson Memorial Church protesting
the Iraq War. Years later, inspired by
Occupy Wall Street and the slogan “the 99%”, and believing the root of that inequality is the system of capitalism, Harting asked Adams to join her
in creating an explicitly anti-capitalist new music series. Concerts are
programmed to generate conversations that imagine an anti-capitalist political
economy. Previous concerts have focused on the Right to the City, capitalism v.
socialism and Occupy Wall Street
“Moving to NYC in 1980 and watching passively as over the next three decades finance capital and real estate bulldozed over many New Yorkers’ needs and aspirations to build a city for the 1%, I was moved and inspired by Occupy Wall Street. What was refreshing for me about OWS was seeing income inequality brought to the foreground and calling out capitalism as the root of this inequality– at least that is what I took away from OWS. I was inspired to start a concert series that, instead of accepting the status quo and Thatcher’s “there is no alternative”, if nothing else, at least proclaims the dissension, J’accuse capitalism!” Julie Harting
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Julie Harting’s diverse body of compositions includes
incidental music for a dadanewyork production of Jean Cocteau’s Les Maries
de la Tour Eiffel, several orchestral pieces, three string quartets, songs,
solo pieces and various chamber ensemble pieces. She has experimented with
quartertones completing Zephyr for quartertone flute and a quartertone
work for clarinet, trombone, violin, cello and narrator. Harting’s tuba
quartet Catacombs of Light premiered at the ISCM World New Music Days in
Croatia played by the XL Tuba Quartet in 2011. Her work has been performed
throughout New York City. Harting earned a D.M.A in Music Composition from
Columbia University and a B.M. in Music Composition from the Manhattan School
of Music. Her teachers included Ursula Mamlok and Mario Davidovsky.
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Elizabeth
Adams works at the intersection of music, education, and social change. Her
compositions use sound to invoke social and political metaphors. With the Orfeo
Duo, she runs Songlines, public workshops mapping a neighborhood through
song-writing and singing walking tours. As an actor, she tours Susan Parenti’s
play, Unrequited, depicting capitalism and socialism as co-dependent
lovers. With Free University NYC, she has helped organize 20 pop-up
universities in public spaces as direct action, public education, and
movement-building. Currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate
Center, she has taught at Baruch College, Xenharmonic Practice Summer Camp, and
the School For Designing a Society. She holds degrees in English, Music,
Composition, and Musiktheater from Barnard, Stony Brook, and the Hochschule der
Kunste, Bern.
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