This group wants to surprise you. With music. In unexpected places. At unexpected times. Since its debut in 2010, New Muse ? short for “New Music Everywhere” ? has brought contemporary classical music to the Dane County Farmers? Market in the guise of a “flash mob,” performed within an exhibit at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and carried its music stands into a nightclub to put on a vaudeville show.
….Of the nine core musicians in New Muse, about half are professionals and the rest are high-level UW-Madison music students, a mix designed to give students the chance to work with pros. New Muse also taps the talents of the UW-Madison dance and theater departments to include spoken word and movement in its shows, an attempt to make “new” music more accessible to audiences who might be a little squeamish about giving it a try.