The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience is part concert, dance party, and club night, featuring original music that samples from classical and hip-hop - all presented in an underground setting like the New York scene that birthed hip-hop. Their music uniquely challenges the MCs and classical musicians pushing the boundaries of both hip-hop and concert music, creating something completely 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 creates Metamusic by sampling principles of hip-hop and classical. Executed with resident MCs, a lyric soprano, woodwinds, French horns, strings, piano, and drums, the music is rigorous, nuanced, accessible, and free from the dogmas of Western European concert music aesthetic. The result is a seamless tete-a-tete with “textures swimming through the sound…like the world’s fastest ping-pong game” (Pitchfork) and is considered the “cutting edge of hip-hop” (Huffington Post).
Featuring musicians for the Flint Symphony Orchestra and Flint Youth Orchestra.
Age recommendation: Family friendly
Runtime: Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
Includes intermission
