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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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The lights were just dimming as I skidded haphazardly around a corner at Carnegie Hall, bag and coat-laden boyfriend dutifully in tow, at 9:02 pm on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Fully aware of the promptness with which Carnegie begins its programs, I was still nonplussed to see the doors to the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall closing just as we burst unceremoniously into the foyer. Accepting defeat, I took a glass of wine (and about a dozen Ricola from the massive dispenser by the door) and situated myself in front of the LCD screen for the first work on what was to be a deeply provocative performance by Alarm Will Sound.
Contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound (photo credit: Justin Bernhaut)
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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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Add Comment »coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe (Workshop V) | American Composers Orchestra
coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe is the first and only professional research and development lab to support the creation of cutting-edge new American orchestral music through no-holds-barred experimentation, encouraging composers to do anything but play it safe.The composers participating in coLABoratory this season are Du Yun, Troy Herion, Raymond J. Lustig, Judith Sainte Croix, and Dan Visconti, selected from a national search for their willingness to experiment and stretch their own musical sensibilities, and their ability to test the limits of the orchestra. This season, coLABoratory will include a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings, collaborative feedback, and laboratory performances of music, open to the public, taking place from November 2012 through April 2013. Each composer’s work is developed with the orchestra over the course of the season in a process that includes ACO’s Music Director George Manahan, ACO’s artistic leadership Robert Beaser and Derek Bermel, mentor composer Morton Subotnick, plus ACO advisors and members of the orchestra.
Tuesday, April 2 at 2 PM
FREE
The DiMenna Center, 450 W 37th St., New York, NY
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Premiere of Violin Sonata No. 2 | Robert Sirota
Robert Sirota – Photo by Brian Hatton
Violinist Laurie Carney and pianist David Friend will give the world premiere of Robert Sirota’s Violin Sonata No. 2. Sirota wrote the sonata for Carney, a founding member of the American String Quartet (ASQ), and dedicated it to their mothers who both passed away recently. The concert will also include Brahms’ Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major; Messiaen’s Theme and Variations; and Faure’s Piano Quartet in C Minor with violist Daniel Avshalomov (also of the ASQ) and cellist William Grubb (Carney’s husband).
Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 PM
FREE
Manhattan School of Music’s Greenfield Hall, 120 Claremont Ave., New York, NY
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Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements & The Ice:STORM/The Wind:TORNADO | Two Sides Sounding & Zentripetal
TSS teams up with new music duo Zentripetal for series of musical perspectives on the climate extremes experienced globally and seen locally in Brooklyn, as heard through element-inspired chamber music of living composers. Part one of an ongoing project that explores how forces of nature affect individuals every day, from heat and humidity to winds and rain. Music by Eve Beglarian, Gloria Coates, Michael Djupstrom, Daniel Felsenfeld, Lei Liang, Gilda Lyons, and Michael Rose, plus TSS-commissioned works by Kala Pierson and Kamala Sankaram, and a world premiere by Lynn Bechtold.
Monday, March 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors/artists
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY
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Those Who Do Not Move | Ensemble Sospeso and Moto Perpetuo
Nicholas DeMaison, conductor
These two organizations team up to present the world premiere of Those Who Do Not Move for large ensemble of speaking musicians, live electronics, and dancers by Lewis Nielson. Sharing the program is the US premiere of Simon Bainbridge’s Garden of Earthly Delights for solo mezzo soprano and counter tenor, large ensemble, 8 voice choir, and video.
Tuesday, March 19 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, 10 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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2 Comments »On February 12, the Brentano String Quartet will perform the world premiere of a composition by Steven Mackey at Carnegie Hall. We asked him 5 questions about One Red Rose, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The titles of the three movements (1. Five Short Studies, 2. Fugue and Fantasy, 3. Anthem and Aria) are surprisingly generic and formal. Was this dictated by the emotional nature of the subject matter?
Yes, exactly. I wanted the piece to be connected to the assassination but not be dependent on it. The governing metaphors for the work were more abstract than representational. A dominant thread throughout the piece is the exploration of the dialectic between public versus private as manifested in the events of late November 1963. To clarify, I was 7 years old, I was home from school sick in bed, watching TV, when the news broke in. I heard my neighbor burst in the house screaming the news to my mother. They both became transfixed by this international news story while sobbing as if it was their personal loss. Another example is the idea of a state funeral which is a very public event governed by strict protocols. The members of the family are in some sense performing the rite for the sake of a broader public and for that performance a certain dignity and stoicism is assumed. Yet, their own deep loss and personal grief has to be dealt with at some point. The third movement – Anthem and Aria – embodies that dialectic quite clearly: an Anthem is typically a musical expression of public feelings like patriotism, devotion, etc. while an Aria is the place in an opera where an individual character expresses personal emotion.
Another thread connecting the piece to the assassination is the simultaneous chaos and control on many different levels. I see this as being related to the idea of public and private or group versus individual. The swirling chaos of a manhunt and the meticulous, microscopic examination of the 6th floor of the book depository for clues. A frenzied race to the hospital while Jackie Kennedy immovably comforts her husband. Fugue and Fantasy embodies this kind of contrast in that a fugue is very a highly structured musical form but, in this case, it’s expressive character is wild, even chaotic.
Steven Mackey
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