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This week: concerts in New York (May 20 – May 26, 2013)

Conrad Tao

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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This week: concerts in New York (May 6 – May 12, 2013)

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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This week: concerts in New York (April 29 – May 5, 2013)

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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This week: concerts in New York (April 15 – April 21, 2013)

Music of Chinary Ung | New York New Music Ensemble

Chinary Ung – Photo Larry Dunn

The New York New Music Ensemble performs the music of Chinary Ung at (le) poisson rouge.
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Contrasts #1

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Alexander Lonquich return to 92Y with composer-clarinetist Jörg Widmann, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Cristina Barbuti for three nights of boldly contrasting chamber music. This concert features music by Widmann, Mozart, and Bartok.
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets from $36
92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St, New York, NY
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MATA Festival | MATA’s Quinceanera Celebration

Ensemble Meitar – Photo by Noa Dolberg

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This week: concerts in New York (April 1 – April 7, 2013)

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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This week: concerts in New York (March 25 – March 31, 2013)

Vital Vox Festival | Vox Electronics: Philip Hamilton / Loom Trio / Sarah Bernstein

VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. It celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States. Over the course of two diverse evenings VITAL VOX explores “Vox Electronics.”  Performances draw from wide-ranging international influences and genres including jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, world music, interactive electro-acoustic and audio sampling. Read I Care If You Listen’s 5 questions to Sabrina Lastman and Sasha Bogdanowitsch about Vital Vox 2012 here.
Monday, March 25 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, Students/Seniors/Members $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Iktus Percussion, Concert Black and ensemble, et al.

Concert Black, Iktus Percussion, Ensemble, et al.

Galapagos Art Space will present an evening of new music featuring three ensembles, each offering their own distinct take on contemporary percussion-based music: Concert Black — a trio of flute, double bass, and percussion — performing all original work for their unique instrumentation; the percussion quartet ensemble, et al. will display their unique blend of new-music aesthetic with a “garage-band” spirit, performing original compositions and arrangements by the group’s members; and Iktus Percussion will close out the evening with a powerful, virtuosic set of contemporary percussion repertoire, with music by Julia Wolfe, Philippe Hurel , Iannis Xenakis, and more.

Tuesday, March 26 at 8 PM
​Tickets $15 in advance | $20 at the door
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
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The String Quartets of John Adams | Attacca Quartet

The Attacca Quartet

The Attacca Quartet performs the string quartets of John Adams, with the composer in attendance.
Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $25 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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