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This week: concerts in New York (May 13 – May 19, 2013)

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) 25th Anniversary Celebration

The program will feature South American songs (“Odeon” by Nazareth, “Pra que discutir com Madame” by Haroldo Barbosa, “Carinhoso” by Pixinguinha); American popular song (“I’m Going to Make You Beautiful” by Maltby and Shire, “Just Like a Man” by Vernon Duke); and vocal music by Spanish, Russian, and German composers, ranging from Montsalvatge to Kurt Weill.

Monday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $25
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues
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Music for Guitar and Organ

The first half of the program will include solos and duos for acoustic guitar and portative organ (a miniature pipe organ), including the Concerto for Lute in F Major by Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut the Austrian lutenist and composer of Czech descent who is considered one of the last important composers for Baroque lute. The second half of the concert will offer new works and transcriptions featuring the weightier combination of electric guitar and organ. Performers: Mak Grgic, acoustic and electric guitar, and Paul Vasile, organ.
Tuesday, May 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $25, $20 Students/Seniors
Park Avenue Christian Church, 1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street, New York, NY
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Original Music Workshop (OMW) presents Strings and Borders

Cornelius Dufallo – Photo by Jill Steinberg

Featuring experimental violinists Dr. Johannes Rosenberg (Australia), Cornelius Dufallo (US) and Mari Kimura (japan). The concert will begin with brief solo performances by Dufallo and Kimura, followed by a trio improvisation featuring them and Rosenberg. Rosenberg will also perform an approximately 40-minute set accompanied by video of his Great Fences of Australia project.

Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 PM
Free but reservations must be made via email at rsvp@o-m-w.org.
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR, 44 Charlton Street, Manhattan
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Sibelius 7 is out!

As of this weekend, the latest version’s of Avid’s Sibelius, Sibelius 7, is available!

Tabbed document interface

There are a bunch of new features, but I guess the most visible one is the new tabbed document view, a bit like in Office 2010 (or 7).

Sibelius’s old menus and toolbars have been replaced with a new tabbed toolbar known as a Ribbon, allowing the program’s features to be grouped in the interface more logically, helping both new and existing users alike make more efficient use of the program.

People are already complaining about how disorienting it is—just like Office 2010 came out—but it might actually be a great way to save time and navigate faster inside the various menus. If you are a keyboard shortcut wizz, don’t worry, all the shortcuts stayed the same and you can import your own shortcut settings from Sibelius 6 quite easily…

Note Input

There are some sweet improvements regarding the note input:

→ Specifying pitch before or after duration. Besides, the shadow note now shows the note value of the note chosen on the Keypad. Yes!

→ Adding lines during input

→ Adding many tuplets: introducing Sticky Tuplets (a great name for a Muse cover band…)

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