March 4, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — The Elisa Monte Dance Company is celebrating its "30th anniversary with three programs and three New York premieres at the Joyce Theater," reports today's New York Times. One of the pieces, "Vanishing Languages", is "set to a score
by Kevin James, which includes archival and taped field recordings of
indigenous languages," writes Gia Kourlas, who adds, "the music is performed live by his [kaj]
ensemble -- the work mourns the loss of communication forms."
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The New York Post calls "Vanishing Languages", "an ambitious piece featuring Kevin 
James' original score played live by
strings and percussion, but it also features recordings of people
speaking in indigenous tongues."
A 1983 graduate of DePauw University, Kevin James is a critically acclaimed composer, who has received awards and grants from the American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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