For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Lara Candland and Christian Asplund at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Lara Candland will read fromher work with Composer/musician Christian Asplund on March 4th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Lara Candland’s book Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree was publishedBlazeVox. Her work has appeared in Fence,The Colorado Review, Barrow Street, Greatcoat,Fine Madness, The Quarterly and other journals. Her pamphlet, Tongue Child was published by the University of SouthCarolina’s Palanquin/TDM series. She hasbeen a finalist in The Motherwell, Hudson, and St. Lawrence book awards. She has also been the recipient of an AWPIntro Award, She is a founder and thelibrettist for Seattle Experimental Opera, and a finalist in the GenesisPrizes. Her opera, Sunset with PinkPastoral with husband and composer Christian Asplund, was performed by AlmeidaOpera in London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Candland has taught poetry, college writing, food writing and fictionwriting at various colleges and universities around the country as an itinerantgrad student/follower of a grad student, and is currently exploring theintersection between written down works and live improv with electronicsampling. Canadian-American composer-performer Christian Asplund’sinterests include intersections of text/music, improvisation/composition, andmodular textures/forms. He has received awards from Genesis Foundation,Barlow Endowment, Artistrust, King County, ASCAP, Alpert Foundation and JackStraw Foundation. His teachers have included Thea Musgrave, Alvin Curran,Michael Hicks, David Sargent, Joel Durand, and John Rahn. He has performed withStuart Dempster, Malcolm Goldstein, and Christian Wolff, John Butcher, EyvindKang, Amy Denio, Jessica Lurie, and many others. His music appears on PresentSounds, Tzadik, Sparkling Beatnik, and other labels, and his compositions havebeen performed and broadcast in many locations in Europe, North America andAustralia. His scores are published by Frog Peak Music. He haswritten books and articles for Perspectives of New Music, American Music,University of Washington and University of Illinois Presses. His mostrecent project has been three marathon performances on piano of the completeworks of Thelonious Monk in Utah, Seattle, and New York. Words used by thepress to describe his music include: passion, panoramic power, pure pointillist,plaintive, painstaking, rhythmically toothy, rocking, remarkable, rollicking,searing, subdued, soothing, submersive, splendid, unique, ethereal,mesmerizing, mind-blowing, otherworldly, absorbing, intelligent, idiosyncratic,distinctive, captivating, bewitching. He lives in Provo, Utah where heteaches at Brigham Young University. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long
