This week: concerts in New York (November 26 – December 2, 2012)

Plus One | W4 New Music

This event is a benefit to raise money for West 4th’s 2013 concert ‘New Music for Old Instruments,’ a concert of newly written music for a Baroque ensemble. Plus One features music by W4 directors Matt Frey, Tim Hansen, Molly Herron, and Ruben Naeff plus a Baroque surprise! The concert will include a raffle with a variety of prizes, beer, hot dogs, baked goods and general merry making.
Tuesday, November 27 at 8 PM
FREE
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Dane Johansen Recital | Carter, Ravel, Dutilleux, Michael Brown, Poulenc

Cellist Dane Johansen performs the music of Elliott Carter, Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, Michael Brown, and  Francis Poulenc in his solo recital at Carnegie Hall.
Tuesday, November 27 at 8 PM
FREE
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, 57th St. & 7th Ave., New York, NY
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Emerging Voices East Coast Tour

Emerging Voices, a contemporary music soprano/saxophone duo, preforms music by Kathleen Bader, Amy Beth Kirsten, Adam Knauss, and George Lam. There will also be a featured talk by composer Amy Beth Kirsten.
Thursday, November 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Danielle & Sxip’s Hour of Charm: Hurricane Relief | Sxip Shirey and Danielle Eva Schwob

A star-studded special edition of Shirey’s famed Joe’s Pub variety show series of the same name, the evening boasts an impressive line-up of performances from the pair’s talented and spectacularly eclectic cadre of friends. This one-off event will take place on November 30 at Le Poisson Rouge, with all proceeds going to benefit local storm relief efforts.
Friday, November 30 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $12 students
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Juilliard Percussion Ensemble

The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble performs the music of John Luther Adams, Guo Wenjing, Elliot Cole, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen.
Friday, November 30 at 8 PM
FREE
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School, 65th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues, New York, NY
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Shut Your Eyes | Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous performs an evening of powerful new music that draws from minimalism, rock, and folk traditions as disparate as Anatolia and Ireland.
Saturday, December 1 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 (in support of P.S. 142)
100 Attorney Street, New York, NY
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Face The Music

Jazz and rock music meet contemporary classical in this second concert that the sensational Face the Music bring to P.S. 69Q. Central to the program are three pieces that mix jazz and rock with contemporary classical sounds: Andy Didorenko’s Concerto for Two Violins; hip-hop violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain’s La La La La for chamber orchestra; and FTM’s own Ethan Cohn’s Lionfish for large jazz combo. The concert also includes Philip Glass’ sparkling String Quartet No. 5, as well as a quartet by one of the Philip Glass Ensemble’s current members (David Crowell’s Open Road). Finally, FTM will present a work by the young Abe Gold, his Four NYC Pieces, bringing the sounds of the city – car horns included – to the stage. Read our interview of Vasudevan Panicker, managing director of Face the Music.
Saturday, December 1 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 at the door ($5 for P.S. 69Q students and their families)
77-02 37th Ave., Queens, New York, NY
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Composers Concordance Festival | Concert #2: Soli

Music by Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Jed Distler, Daniel Palkowski, Randall Woolf, Jacob TV, Mohammed Fairouz, and Eleonor Sandresky. Performed by Kathleen Supové, Eleonor Sandresky, and Jed Distler.
Saturday, December 1 at 7pm
FREE with limited seating
Faust Harrison Pianos, 207 West 58th Street, NYC
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