>High Art/Low Politics
>
>John Halle Plays Music and Talks Green Politics
>
>Jan 1, 2003
>8 PM
>CNMAT
>1750 Arch St.
>Berkeley, CA
>information: 203-906-6142
>
>
> John Halle is an Assistant Professor of Music at Yale and a
>composer of works performed and recorded by, among others, the Bang
>on a Can All Stars, the New Millenium Ensemble, the Common Sense
>Composers' Collective and the Meridian Arts Ensemble. He is also a
>Green Party Alderman representing New Haven's Ninth Ward, having
>become the first third party elected official in New Haven in the
>last century.
>
> On January 1st at 8 PM, he will play some of his music (with
>his wife, Colorado String Quartet violist Marka Gustavsson) and
>explain why a pianist/music theorist/composer of contemporary
>"classical" music is involved in ward level, anti-corporate politics
>with the Green Party.
>
> Admission is free.