New York release show for Nico Muhly’s “Drones”
Nico Muhly – Photo by Matthew Murphy
Nico Muhly celebrates the release of his new album, Drones with an all Nico Muhly and Philip Glass program at Le Poisson Rouge.
Monday, December 3 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Pianist Jenny Q Chai “Dissects” Marco Stroppa
In this performance mixing academics with theater, Chai, wearing a doctor’s lab coat, will “dissect Stroppa” and in particular, his recent work, “Innige Cavatina” from the collection Miniature Estrose. Andrew Tham spoke to Chai; read the interview here.
Monday, December 3 at 7:30 PM
FREE
Miller Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY
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From A Vanished World
Cassatt Quartet performs a program featuring Terezin concentration camp composer Viktor Ullmann’s Quartet No. 3, a new work by Gerald Cohen, Playing for Our Lives, a contemporary tribute to the musical life of the camp, and Shostakovich’s towering Quartet No. 8, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war. A conversation with Terezin survivor Ela Weissberger and Gerald Cohen illuminates this powerful music.
Thursday, December 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30, Members $25, Under 30 $15
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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love fail | David Lang, Anonymous 4
Anonymous 4 performs David Lang’s latest work “love fail” as part of the BAM 2012 Next Wave Festival.
Thursday, December 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets start at $20
Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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Olga Neuwirth | International Contemporary Ensemble
International Contemporary Ensemble performs works by Olga Neuwirth. There will also be an onstage discussion with the composer.
Thursday, December 6 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $30
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Orpheus with Timothy Andres and David Kaplan
Timothy Andres – Photo by Jonathan Waiter
Orpheus presents a program that juxtaposes two composers of radically different eras, Mozart and Timothy Andres, who both began improvising and composing at a very early age.
Thursday, December 6 at 8 PM
Tickets $20 – $40
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
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John King’s Kosmos | Crucible Quartet, TILT Brass
Crucible Quartet premiere’s John King’s new work Kosmos and TILT Brass performs King’s Astral Epitaphs.
Friday, December 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $10 for members/students/seniors. Tickets $15 for general admission.
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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The Folk Tale Project
Four Chinese and four American composers were commissioned by The Phoenix Concerts Series to compose new works based on traditional folks tales from around the world. The result: eight new compositions, premiered simultaneously in Beijing (in a concert produced by the Beijing New Music Ensemble) and in Seattle (by the Seattle-based Finisterra Piano Trio) in December 2011. The Phoenix Concerts is proud to bring the 50-minute program home to New York.
Friday, December 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $10, students free
Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy, 26 West 84th Street, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can All-Stars
The Bang on a Can All-Stars unveils two new Japan Society-commissioned works that draw inspiration from Rimpa–a school of Japanese painting that spanned the 17th-19th centuries. The first piece is by the New York-based composer/jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and the other is by Japanese post-minimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda. In addition, the All-Stars will revive Somei Satoh’s Shu (Spells), for the first time since its world premiere at the Society in 2004. This time, the piece will be performed to a Rimpa-art-inspired visual landscape specially created for this concert by cutting-edge motionographer Nobuyuki Hanabusa.
Saturday, December 8 at 8 PM
Tickets $28, $23 Japan Society members
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY
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RELAY | Wet Ink CD Release Party
Wet Ink rings in the release of RELAY with two large-scale experimental works by Sam Pluta and Kate Soper.
Saturday, December 8 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 Students
The DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Loops, Waves, and Impressions | Jeff Lankov
Pianist Jeff Lankov will perform the complete solo piano works of John Adams, rarely heard on the same program, along with the second book of Préludes by Claude Debussy
Sunday, December 9 at 8 PM
FREE
Black Box Theatre, New York, University, 82 Washington Square East, New York, NY
