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In every musical era, composers have conversations with their instruments, and each conversation is different. The sounds composers sought from violins in the 18th century is not the same as what a composer seeks from a violin today. Sure, there is the fundamental concept of the bow gliding across the strings, but the sounds associated with a violin have evolved tremendously over the years thanks to extended techniques, electronic processing, and the constantly shifting ways in which composers and performers approach music-making. New York’s W4 New Music explored this relationship between composer and instrument in their New Music for Old Instruments concert on April 5, 2013, at the South Oxford Space in Brooklyn.
W4 New Music collective with guest composers (photo credit: w4newmusic.com)
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Pianist Conrad Tao performs the music of Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Meredith Monk, and himself at (le) poisson rouge.
Tuesday, May 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Mivos Quartet
Mivos Quartet – Photo by Ralf Puder/Nana Fran
Mivos joins a stellar cast of musicians in this 10-day exhibit of Elliott Sharp’s Foliage. Tuesday night they offer their own interpretation of Sharp’s epic graphic score piece, with video by Janene Higgins.
Tuesday, May 21 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
REVERSE 21 Frost St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
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Iktus Percussion: The Interactive Ideal | Ear Heart Music
Iktus Percussion, with guest artists Denise Filion and Julia Den Boer, explore the interaction of both electronic, acoustic, and instrumental theater of the Darmstadt era via a constellation of works for piano, percussion, and electronics. In his 1960 Kontakte, Karlheinz Stockhausen takes the analog electronic world as his primary palette, spreading colors on an acoustic canvas of piano and percussion sound. Luigi Nono’s 1976 Sofferte Onde Serene for piano and electronics turns inward, focusing less on exploration of sound and more on cultivation of dialogue. Nono involves us in an intimate, and at times beguiling, conversation between piano and the pre-recorded improvisations of Maurizio Pollini. Finally, Mauricio Kagel challenges conventional western musical tradition in his 1977 work, Dressur. Scored for over 50 wooden instruments and non-instruments, Kagel combines the visual and auditory to draw his audience into a whirlwind of absurdist and unorthodox musical theater. This piece may (or may not) contain partial nudity.
Tuesday, May 21 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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Add Comment »New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) 25th Anniversary Celebration
The program will feature South American songs (“Odeon” by Nazareth, “Pra que discutir com Madame” by Haroldo Barbosa, “Carinhoso” by Pixinguinha); American popular song (“I’m Going to Make You Beautiful” by Maltby and Shire, “Just Like a Man” by Vernon Duke); and vocal music by Spanish, Russian, and German composers, ranging from Montsalvatge to Kurt Weill.
Monday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $25
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues
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Music for Guitar and Organ
The first half of the program will include solos and duos for acoustic guitar and portative organ (a miniature pipe organ), including the Concerto for Lute in F Major by Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut the Austrian lutenist and composer of Czech descent who is considered one of the last important composers for Baroque lute. The second half of the concert will offer new works and transcriptions featuring the weightier combination of electric guitar and organ. Performers: Mak Grgic, acoustic and electric guitar, and Paul Vasile, organ.
Tuesday, May 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $25, $20 Students/Seniors
Park Avenue Christian Church, 1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street, New York, NY
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Original Music Workshop (OMW) presents Strings and Borders
Cornelius Dufallo – Photo by Jill Steinberg
Featuring experimental violinists Dr. Johannes Rosenberg (Australia), Cornelius Dufallo (US) and Mari Kimura (japan). The concert will begin with brief solo performances by Dufallo and Kimura, followed by a trio improvisation featuring them and Rosenberg. Rosenberg will also perform an approximately 40-minute set accompanied by video of his Great Fences of Australia project.
Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 PM
Free but reservations must be made via email at rsvp@o-m-w.org.
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR, 44 Charlton Street, Manhattan
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Add Comment »Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Kronos Quartet
Brooklyn Youth Chorus – Photo by Joshua Simpson
Enjoy cocktails and light supper at the stylish Green Building followed by a performance featuring BYC with Kronos Quartet at Roulette. The evening honors longtime board member Hillary Richard. The program presents BYC commissions, including a world-premiere by Julia Wolfe and works by Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond). New York premieres by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), and works by Bryce Dessner (The National, Clogs) are also featured as part of a new series of BYC co-commissions with BAM.
Tuesday, May 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $45
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Acqua Alta (High Water) | Jenny Q Chai
Jenny Q Chai
Acqua Alta (High Water) will be the anchor of a month-long programming focus on global warming at Spectrum, with sound and video installations based on data curated by Ian Fenty, whose doctoral dissertation at MIT addressed ’s new studied of global warming and its effects on our oceans. John Cage’s athletic Water Walk (see schematic attached/above) is the centerpiece of the program. Written in 1959, John Cage’s Water Walk is scored for a number of objects, including bathtub, rubber duck, prepared piano and five radios. It was originally premiered on the Italian TV show Lascia O Raddoppia. Ninnananna from Marco Stroppa’s Miniature Estrose—a lullaby in which its out of worldly tremors creates a gentle watery shimmer and explores the two relations between two states of mind, with initiated knowledge one might trace hidden lullabies by Brahms, Schubert, Stravinsky and an Italian lullaby Stroppa’s mother used to sing to him. Scarlatti and Gibbons provides the sensation of traveling back in time in Italy, while Debussy and Ravel adds their watery imagery. Three world premieres by Nils Vigeland, Milica Paranosic and Michael Vincent Waller reflect contemporary composers’ take on global warming. To complete the experience, the stage and the hall are transformed with projections of Italian Renaissance paintings, which stunningly portray the luminous beauty of Italy.
Tuesday, May 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow St., 2nd floor, New York, NY
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Add Comment »Corigliano 7.5: The Birthday Concert
John Corigliano
The music of John Corigliano is performed to celebrate his 75th birthday.
Monday, April 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10 standing room, $25 table seating
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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NYFOS Next: Mohammed Fairouz & Friends
Now in its third season, NYFOS Next spotlights a new generation of song composers and interpreters in concerts paralleling New York Festival of Song’s ongoing subscription series. This concert features the music of Mohammed Fairouz.
Tuesday, April 30 at 7 PM
Tickets $10
Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Add Comment »Vicky Chow & Owen Weaver
Vicky Chow & Owen Weaver
Vicky Chow & Owen Weaver perform music by Christopher Cerrone and John Luther Adams.
Monday, April 22 at 7 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Cantaloupe Café Presents: David Lang + Shelter
David Lang discusses his newly released CD, Shelter. This casual, relaxed evening will be the first in a series of concerts and conversations hosted by Cantaloupe Music and the founders of the Bang on a Can collective. Lang will be joined by the three solo vocalists from Shelter, who will perform the choral piece “I Want to Live.”
Monday, April 22 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, which includes CD
Strand Books, Corner of 12th Street and Broadway, New York, NY
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