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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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Redshift: Kinetic Music (with storm) at Salle Pianos

The small audience who braved a rare San Francisco thunderstorm to get to Redshift’s concert on April 12 was rewarded for their trip by an evening filled with mostly minimalist-influenced music, wine, and cookies. Redshift, a bi-coastal ensemble whose website says they are based in New York and San Francisco, consists of Jeff Anderle (clarinet), Rose Bellini (cello), Kate Campbell (piano), and Andie Springer (violin). The concert took place at Salle Pianos, a relatively new space in San Francisco that bills itself as a venue for “artists, musicians, models, painters, and art lovers.” The piano used for tonight’s performance was a Pleyel dating from the 1920s, and aside from an odd buzz or two during the second half (perhaps a broken string?), the instrument sounded as good as it looked.

Redshift

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