Opus Jacob Adler is a composer, performer, and teacher. He teaches advanced rhythm and music theory at ASU and PVCC. Jacob performs on the piano, organ, laptop, accordion, tanpura, and tsimbl in collaboration with musicians around the world. He has performed his music at the Issue Project Room in New York, Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Amsterdam, Claviblasticum Composed by Jacob Adler (2017) Musica Moderna festival in l6di, Goteborg Organ Academy in Sweden, and other festivals in Europe. and the US. Recordings can be heard at jacobadler.blogspot.com. Doug Nottingham, percussion Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, piano Lisa Tolentino, percussion Jennifer Waleczek, piano Robert Esler, percussion Juliana Witt, piano Brett Reed, percussion Crossing 32nd Street, named Phoenix's "Best New Classical Music Ensemble" by the Arizona Republic, strives to increase the awareness and understanding of modern music through an aggressive commitment to Josh Hill, violin Alan Acosta, saxophone performing Wei Guo, cello David Wegehaupt, saxophone Performances routinely include the music of the modern masters, Ruth Wenger, cello Keith Kelly, saxophone including, among others, John Cage, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, lannis Elizabeth Bayer, flute Erica Low, clarinet Xenakis, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, John Luther Adams and James Tenney, as well as the exciting new works of emerging composers. Brendan Rincon, electronics Josh Bennett, clarinet Jacob Adler, organ Parker Davis, electric guitar relevant contemporary works at the highest nrt 1· Herberger Institute ~FOR ARIZONA DESIGN AND THE ARTS STATE UNIVERSITY School of Music level. Prisms Contemporary Music Festival November 12, 2017 7:30 pm ASU Organ Hall The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his companion of various constellations? Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipent lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Major) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast? Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a - t