For some 200 years, New Orleans has been widely identified as a vital center of musical life. It has invented, encouraged and sustained a number of genres that have impacted musical thinking and practice worldwide. To date, forward-leaning New Music has not enjoyed the prominence or identity of the opera, rags, multi-cultural concert music, jazz, blues, and funk conventionally associated with its rich cultural heritage. The Louis Moreau Institute is poised to do so, adding to the vitality and diversity of its musical life, do so in a unique way, and give the future of music a desitively rite place to grow and prosper.
The Louis Moreau Institute presents a one-week season of performances in the spring, the repertory will be a mix of new music from the last 100 years, one work by a regional composer –or a work somehow about the region– and improvisation using traditional regional material as a foundation, played in a non-traditional way.
