Arts in Bloom: Ensemble Mik Nawooj's Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience
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- Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
- Bloomsburg
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Ensemble Mik Nawooj (ENM)'s Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience is part concert, dance party, and club night featuring original music that samples from classical and hip-hop. The performance uniquely challenges the MCs and classical musicians - pushing the boundaries of both hip-hop and concert music, creating something new. The program includes seminal works of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven, deconstructed and reimagined with funky rhythms and rapid-fire rhymes.
Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, the Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience is performed with resident MCs, a lyric soprano, woodwinds, French horns, strings, piano, and drums. This unique performance features musicians from Commonwealth University's music program and surrounding communities. Ensemble Mik Nawooj will arrive on the Bloomsburg campus a few days before the show to rehearse with students and local musicians. The result will be an incredible night combining classical and Hip-Hop disciplines like you've never heard before.
Other headliners in the Arts in Bloom 2024-25 season include:
- Aaron Diehl Jazz Trio, Saturday, April 5, 2025, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium
- Reduced Shakespeare Company, All the Great Books (Abridged), Friday, May 2, 2025, Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium.