Yarn-Wire-Photo-by-Bobby-Fisher

This week: concerts in New York (July 13 – July 19, 2015)

Blue Streak Ensemble

Blue Streak Ensemble

Blue Streak Ensemble

The program features the music of all living composers: Margaret Brouwer, Mario Davidovsky, John Harbison, Clint Needham, Huang Ruo, and Chen Yi. Margaret Brouwer will be in attendance and will talk about the compositions.
Monday, July 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $7.50 students/seniors
National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Up Close with Yarn/Wire | Lincoln Center Festival

Meet the musicians of Yarn/Wire (pianists Laura Barger and Ning Yu and percussionists Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg) and composers Raphaël Cendo and Misato Mochizuki as they discuss their work and the performance to be held the following evening in a talk moderated by Frank J. Oteri of New Music USA. Excerpts of works making their world premieres at the concert will be performed.
Tuesday, July 14 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $15
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
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Yarn/Wire | Lincoln Center Festival

Yarn/Wire - Photo by Bobby Fisher

Yarn/Wire – Photo by Bobby Fisher

Yarn/Wire’s two pianists and two percussionists bring their unique performance style to intimate surroundings at Lincoln Center, performing world premieres by Tristan Murail, Misato Mochizuki, and Raphaël Cendo.
Wednesday, July 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
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The Cleveland Orchestra | Lincoln Center Festival

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

The Cleveland Orchestra performs works by Messiaen and Dvořák.
Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $50-$100
Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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The Dream Unfinished: A Symphonic Benefit for Civil Rights

The program features music by William Grant Still, Leonard Bernstein, and a world premiere by Jessie Montgomery, and will be performed by a diverse orchestra led by Grammy-award nominated and Grammy-award winning conductors James Blachly and John McLaughlin Williams.
Friday, July 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35, $25 online
The Salvation Army’s Centennial Memorial Temple, 120 West 14th Street, New York, NY
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Hans Tammen: Dark Circuits series

Following Hans Tammen’s “Dark Circuits” Festival in 2014, Spectrum’s “Dark Circuits Series” features performers who work in contemporary electronic music practices such as circuit bending, no-input mixers, laptops, bio-feedback, turntablism, analogue circuitry, network sniffers, live coding and soldering, plus other instruments we may have never heard of yet.
Saturday, July 18 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations

Ramin Arjomand

Ramin Arjomand

This month at Reinterpretations, Ramin Arjomand presents an all-improvisation solo program.
Sunday, July 19 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Vox Temporum

Gabriel Zucker and Nathan Braginsky are the featured composers.
Sunday, July 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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ELECTROVOX | QUBIT New Music

A program of works for soprano voice and electronics featuring Charlotte Mundy.
Sunday, July 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn NY
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