Face the Music With Iktus Percussion

Contemporary Classical Ensemble Performs With Daring Percussion Group

If Philip Glass decided to hijack the podium of a youth orchestra and led the players past the familiar realms of standards and show tunes to the very cutting edge of contemporary music ... the ensemble might have sounded like Face the Music. Operating under the sublime logic that young people should play young music, Face the Music is the only youth ensemble in the U.S. dedicated to music by living composers. This combination of gifted young musicians and avant garde compositions has proven explosive, with "The New York Times" recognizing its 200+ members as "a force in the New York new-music world." Now the ensemble teams up with Iktus Percussion, an ambitious, energetic group committed to expanding the boundaries of the percussion genre. Savor of the sounds of today and tomorrow when two of the city's most daring and dynamic ensembles play the Players Theatre.