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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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I’m not sure I’ve been to a solo instrumental recital as wide-ranging in its exploration of sounds and intriguing in its ideas as cellist Seth Woods’s performance on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, at the DiMenna Center in New York City. Woods’s selection of music for the evening, all composed within the last decade and some in the last year, presented different techniques, timbres, and musical content in a way that was compelling and thought-provoking. What made this program succeed was how the musical ideas were allowed to develop, breathe, and come to life in Woods’s capable hands.
Cellist Seth Woods
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Add Comment »coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe (Workshop I) | American Composers 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, November 13 at 2 PM
FREE
Mannes College, The New School, 150 W. 85th St., New York, NY
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120 Years of Solo Piano | Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore – Photo by Matthew Fried
Lisa Moore performs works for solo piano by Alexander Scriabin, Leos Janacek, Martin Bresnick, Hannah Lash, Paul Kerekes, and Philip Glass as part of Miller Theatre’s Pop-Up Concerts series.
Tuesday, November 13 at 6 PM
FREE
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, 116 Broadway Manhattan, NY
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NYFOS Next | Carla Kihlstedt
The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) opens a new season of its contemporary music mini-series NYFOS Next. Collaborative composer, singer, and violinist Carla Kihlstedt hosts and curates an hour of music showcasing the work of a diverse range of mostly female artists and composers: Lisa Bielawa, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Susan Botti, Errollyn Wallen, Nicola Lefanu, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Lautaro Mantilla, Nils Frykdahl, Matthias Bossi, as well as her own intriguing works. Several of the composers will perform their own works including Kihlstedt and her husband Matthias Bossi, who together form the duo Rabbit Rabbit, as well as fellow violinist-vocalist Eden MacAdam-Somer.
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 PM
FREE
Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Requiem aeternam
Presented by Park Avenue Christian Church The Latin Requiem Mass has inspired composers throughout the ages. This distinctive program juxtaposes the elegant, chant-inspired setting of Maurice Duruflé with a remarkable new setting by New York composer, Gregory Spears.
Wednesday, November 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $50/$25, Senior & Students $20
Park Avenue Christian Church, 1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street New York, NY 10028
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[INTERPRETATIONS] Camilla Hoitenga & Taavi Kerikmäe // Erik Griswold’s “Wallpaper Music”
Taavi Kerikmäe and Camilla Hoitenga
American born, Australian-based composer and improviser Erik Griswold presents the New York premiere of his prepared piano tour-de-force “Wallpaper Music,” and the duo of Köln-based flutist Camilla Hoitenga and Estonian pianist Taavi Kerikmäe present new works framed by the classic avant-garde of Niccolò Castiglioni’s “Gymel”.
Thursday, November 15 at 8 PM
Tickets General Admission: $15, Members/Students/Seniors: $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Fred Ho: World Premiere Of Burning Sister! The Fire This Time
Fred Ho – Photo by Rainer Fehringer
Don’t miss the world premiere of a new Fred Ho piece, a duet between cellist Seth Woods and Ho himself. David Pearson interviewed Ho last year for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN…
Friday, November 16 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, Students with ID $10 | At the door
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
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Storybook, an evening of new vocal music
The New York-based composers’ collective Random Access Music presents Storybook, an evening of new vocal music by composers Gilbert Galindo, David Fetherolf, Stefan Weisman, Manly Romero, Jonathan Pieslak and Wang Jie.
Sunday, November 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $20
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Marie Incontrera’s At the Other Side of the Earth, a riot girl opera, received its exciting premiere on May 18 in NYC. The opera was one of a kind in telling the story of a lesbian woman in a fictional (but not unrealistic—Rick Santorum did win the Republican primaries in 11 states) Christian fascist society finding herself in love with a powerful out and uncompromising riot girl. Incontrera’s compositional skills paved a musical process full of passionate outbursts, enticing rhythmic cells, astringent dissonances, ominous tension, and humorous moments well fitting for the subject matter.
Marie Incontrera
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4 Comments »While exploring many different sounds and concepts, your jazz compositions maintain strong roots in the big band tradition. What’s the relationship between tradition and experiment in your music?
Tradition is never anything static. Tradition is important to study, to understand and to fully grasp, but it can never replace or be a surrogate for your own artistic identity and originality. While I respect tradition, I am not a traditionalist. I’m an experimentalist. I utilize tradition as inspiration and catalyst for my own personal artistic explorations that seek to transform culture and society, not reinforce or reproduce either.
For example, in my big band writing, I employ a lot of traditional ‘tropes’ but at the same time, metamorphosize them with odd-meter grooves, 16-tone harmonic writing (beyond the 12 tone), George Russell’s lydian chromatic concept applied to orchestration, etc.
Fred Ho
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Fred Ho’s new work, The Sweet Science Suite: A Scientific Soul Honoring of Muhammad Ali seemed to channel all the energy of the composer and his Green Monster Big Band into an explosive performance. Christal Brown’s choreography brought the music to visual life, utilizing a diversity of dance styles to create just the right swagger and grace for the music. Its premiere performance at the Guggenheim’s Works and Process series this past Sunday and Monday showed its tremendous potential.
Fred Ho – Photo by Rainer Fehringer
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