National Sawdust

For The Trees (New York Premiere)

For the Trees is an immersive, multimedia show centered on a new string quartet by Boulder, Colorado composer Jeffrey Nytch and performed by Tesla Quartet. Inspired by increasingly serious concerns regarding the dire realities of climate change's potential to uproot our immediate future, For the Trees features components of live music, sound installation, spoken word, and visual images. Both emotionally and creatively, this new work engages the destructive impact of deforestation and strikes out to motivate action to combat it. A post-show discussion with Nytch in conversation with representatives from North Brooklyn Parks Alliance and the Brooklyn arborist community will provide opportunities for the work's deeper meaning to be more closely explored on both a local and global scale.