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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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Kevin Puts
An evening of music curated and hosted by composer Kevin Puts. Including arias from his 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night. Also featuring music from the new Opera America Songbook by David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Christopher Cerrone, & Ricky Ian Gordon.
Tuesday, February 5 at 7 PM
Tickets $10
Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, New York, NY
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Ecstatic Music Festival | Clogs, Sarah Kirkland Snider, & Orchestra For The Next Century
Sarah Kirkland Snider presents her new work for seven vocalists and chamber orchestra, Unremembered, a 13-song cycle set to poetry (and with accompanying projected artwork) by New-York-based poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, featuring vocal performances by DM Stith, Shara Worden and Padma Newsome. Orchestra for the Next Century, directed by Gary Schneider, will present Snider’s work along with new works and arrangements by Newsome, Worden and Stith.
Wednesday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 for 3+ concerts, $15 students, $150 festival pass
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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The Knights and Wu Man
Wu Man
Renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man performs classic and contemporary chamber orchestra works with progressive New York classical ensemble The Knights.
Thursday, February 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $22 members; $26 students/seniors; $30 nonmembers
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Composer Portraits | Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Gubaidulina is featured at this Miller Theatre Composer Portrait concert.
Saturday, February 9 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York, NY
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Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band
This special performance will feature Fred Ho leading his 18-piece Green Monster Big Band and will present world premiere works composed by Ho. He’ll debut his newest composition, “Rompin’, Rumpin’ and Roastin’ at the Red Rooster (Afro Asia Fantasia #1),” complete with a special Chinese menu prepared by chef Marcus Samuelsson. This occasion will also see the world premiere of “Iron Man Meets the Black Dog Meets David Taylor,” a tribute to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and veteran virtuoso bass trombonist David Taylor.
Saturday, February 9 at 8 PM & 10 PM
Tickets $25
Red Rooster Jinny’s Supper Club, 310 Lenox Ave (125 & 126 Streets), Harlem, New York
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Igor Stravinsky once said that “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” In Histories, a new piece by Brooklyn-based composer collective Sleeping Giant and commissioned by the Deviant Septet ensemble, they do just that, stealing from the bad boy of music himself in what becomes a revisionist and exhilarating look at history, artistic influence, remix culture, and the process of creation.
On May 24, Deviant Septet and Sleeping Giant joined to present Histories at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room. Deviant Septet is an ensemble of musicians that came together to fulfill Stravinsky’s unique vision of instruments needed for his L’histoire du Soldat ensemble. L’histoire du soldat, or The Soldier’s Tale, was a theatrical work based on a Russian folk tale composed by Stravinsky and initially performed in 1918. Scored for a septet of double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet or trumpet, trombone and percussion, Stravinsky had imagined that this combination of instruments would grow in influence and scope. Deviant Septet’s mission is to not only realize Stravinsky’s unfulfilled dream, but to extend his vision, commissioning avant-garde and unique works to add a spark of the unusual to modern chamber music. Sleeping Giant consists of six emerging composers (all Yale School of Music Graduates: Timo Andres, Ted Hearne, Jacob Cooper, Christopher Cerrone, Andrew Norman, and Robert Honstein) who, similarly to Deviant Septet, are unafraid to shake things up a bit in the contemporary classical world, and are drawn to one another based upon mutual respect of their unique compositional voices.
Deviant Septet
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Red Light New Music, a composer collective and new music ensemble now in its seventh season, presented Music in Layers on May 21 at Symphony Space in New York City. The performance included pieces by six composers, interwoven by ambient soundscapes and interludes designed by Christopher Cerrone and Adrian Knight. The concert highlighted new arrangements of works by Cerrone and Knight, as well as additional local composers Vincent Raikhel, Liam Robinson and Scott Wollschleger, plus one piece from John Cage. Cerrone and Knight based the electronic interludes on field recordings collected from New York City; Harriman State Park; Stockholm, Sweden; and Miami, Florida. These electronic interludes were meant to create a seamless listening experience, connecting one piece to the next, as well as encouraging the audience to appreciate the musicality of everyday existence.
Liam Robinson, Vincent Raikhel, Christopher Cerrone, Scott Wollschleger
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