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Film, Video Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu

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Title

  • Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu

Summary

  • Members of loadbang join violinist/composer Christopher Otto, pianist Ning Yu, have a discussion with David Plylar about their concert at the Library. Loadbang, a quartet for bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and baritone voice, performed works by Sebastian Currier, Hilda Paredes, Michael Finnissy, and Laura Cetilia. The works by Currier and Finnissy were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, and the Finnissy work features texts by Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle that are held in the Library's Manuscript Division. At the center of the program was a new work by Christopher Otto, commissioned by the Leonora Jackson McKim Fund in the Library of Congress and performed by Otto and pianist Ning Yu.

Event Date

  • May 30, 2025

Running Time

  • 37 minutes 41 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu. 2025. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11732/.

APA citation style:

(2025) Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11732/.

MLA citation style:

Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu. 2025. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11732/>.