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This week: concerts in New York (February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017)

Just Intonation Works by Michael Harrison and Michael Vincent Waller

The Carnegie Hill Concerts series, hosted at Church of the Advent Hope, programs an opportunity to experience “just intonation” works on a re-tuned acoustic piano, along with tabla, percussion and Indian vocals. Music by composers Michael Harrison and Michael Vincent Waller are featured.
Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00 PM
Suggest donation $20 , $10 students/seniors
Church of the Advent Hope, 111 East 87th Street, New York, NY
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Picnic Cantata / Dinner at Eight | NYFOS

Gabriel Kahane accompanied by his father Jeffery (photo credit: Sam Reising)

Gabriel Kahane accompanied by his father Jeffery (photo credit: Sam Reising)

NYFOS premieres a suite of songs from William Bolcom and Mark Campbell’s new opera, Dinner at Eight, just before its premiere at Minnesota Opera the following month. NYFOS also premieres a new song cycle it commissioned from Gabriel Kahane. Rounding out the program is Paul Bowles’s Picnic Cantata, set to the words of New York poet James Schuyler.
Tuesday, February 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $40-$55
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Music Inspired by Art

Pianist Yoonie Han performs the world premiere of Theodore Wiprud’s Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth and selections from Enrique Granados’s Goyescas.
Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35, $30 alumni, $25 staff, $15 students
Baruch Performing Arts Center, The Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Upon this handful of Earth

Inspired by “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis’s unprecedented 2015 encyclical about the environment, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space (SMSS), with co-producer New York Opera Society, presents Upon this Handful of Earth, a world premiere chamber opera from Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk and librettist Aksel-Otto Bull.
Friday, February 24 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25-$80
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Group Work VI: Songs Against Violent Leadership

This concert features the music of Abraham Z. Morrison, Gregory Houston, Ivonne Paredes, Libby Larsen, and Mavis Pan.
Friday, February 24 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
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Unheard-of//Ensemble

Unheard-Of-Ensemble

Unheard-of//Ensemble kicks off their 2017 East Coast Tour at Spectrum performing newly composed works for clarinet, cello and piano. The 2017 tour will feature the music of Kagan Breitenbach, Flannery Cunningham, Alan Hankers, Howie Kenty, Sunny Knable, Joe Sferra, and Christina Volpini as well as the Unheard-of//Electronics initiative featuring electronic works for clarinet written for Unheard-of.
Saturday, February 25 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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The Andie Conrad Aaron Show

Aaron Roche

Aaron Roche

This concert features the music by Conrad Winslow, Aaron Roche, Robert Ashley, Stravinsky, Bryce Dessner and others
Saturday, February 25 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
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Imri Talgam

Pianist Imri Talgam performs the music of Daniel Fox, Peter Kramer, and Vicente Alexim.
Sunday, February 26 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Premieres – Vol. 6 | loadbang

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loadbang

A continuation of loadbang’s ongoing project to expand the repertoire for their unique instrumentation (trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, baritone voice), this concert will feature two world premieres by Bernardo Barros and Jonathan Dawe, a New York premiere, and a selection of favorite works composed for the group.
Sunday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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