Simons @60 – The Music of David Simons
Lisa Karrer and David Simons
Several performances including a chamber group including Lisa Karrer on voice,and Denman Maroney on keyboards presenting works based on surrealist literature. A trio with Stephanie Griffin viola, Lisa voice and Simons’ Theremin in which all players are triggering percussion from their instruments. Also Gamelan Son of Lion, an 11 piece ensemble.
Wednesday, March 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
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Two X Four
Violinists Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo team up to perform four double-concertos, starting with Bach’s Concerto for two violins in D minor. Rounding out the program are Philip Glass’s tranquil Echorus and two newly commissioned pieces by David Ludwig and Anna Clyne, inspired by Bach and written especially for Koh and Laredo. The orchestra features young players from the Curtis Institute of Music, Koh and Laredo’s alma mater, and the institution where they first played the Bach double together as teacher and student.
Wednesday, March 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $35 – $40
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York, NY
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Ecstatic Music Festival | Bang on a Can’s People Commissioning Fund Project
Bang on a Can All-Stars – Photo by Pascal Perich & Julien Jourdes
The Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund is a radical partnership between artists and audiences to commission works from adventurous composers. Since the Fund began in 1997, fans of new music have joined together to commission dozens of new pieces of music for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, making PCF one of the most anticipated and reliable launching pads for emerging composers in NYC and beyond. On March 14, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform world premieres of new commissions by cutting-edge multimedia composer Anna Clyne, hypnotic electronic guru Dan Deacon, Icelandic electronica minimalist Jóhann Jóhannsson, and electro-acoustic experimentalist and installation artist Paula Matthusen, as well as avant-indie rocker Tyondai Braxton’s Trems and cross-genre composer/performer Fay Kueen Wang’s Weltinseln featuring Wang performing alongside the All-Stars.
Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 for 3+ concerts, $15 students, $150 festival pass
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York , NY
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Cassatt Quartet with cellist Marc Johnson
Kicking off the celebration of their 30th season, the Cassatt Quartet is joined by cellist Marc Johnson (Vermeer Quartet) to offer the world premiere of a new quintet by Daniel S. Godfrey, To Mourn, To Dance, counterbalanced by the Schubert Quintet.
Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30, members $25, 30 and under (with valid ID) $15
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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Face The Music
Face the Music – Photo by Meg Goldman
Face the Music is an ensemble of astonishingly talented teenagers performing works by today’s most compelling and creative new music composers. In residence at the Kaufman Center, Face the Music features today’s music presented by the emerging artistic voices of tomorrow. Music by Michael Gordon (Yo Shakespeare), Julia Wolfe (Lick), Steve Reich (Different Trains) and 1 student work.
Thursday, March 14 at 8 PM
FREE
The Tank, 151 West 46th Street New York, NY
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R. Andrew Lee: Dennis Johnson’s “November”
R. Andrew Lee
ISSUE Project Room will present a rare performance of Dennis Johnson’s November by renowned minimalist pianist (and I CARE IF YOU LISTEN contributing editor) R. Andrew Lee. This concert marks the long-awaited return to IPR’s historic theater at 22 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn.
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $15 / $12
ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn
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Ecstatic Music Festival | Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. & Imani Uzuri with Numinous
Uzuri will premiere an original multi-voice and multi-instrument musical suite, Placeless, performed by Numinous and special guests, exploring the expansive themes of home and “place” inspired by the Psalms, the writings of Sufi mystic and poet Rumi and the folk hymnody African-American Spirituals. Numinous will also premiere Changing Same, a six-movement composition by Phillips that musically reflects a liberating pursuit of individuality where contemporary classical music melds with Prince, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Chuck Brown, Barry White and Gamble and Huff to create an evocative, intimate and affirming musical and cultural “memory book.” The composition will be recorded in the spring of 2013, with plans to be released on New Amsterdam Records. In addition, Numinous will perform a short new collaborative five-movement composition by Uzuri and Phillips inspired by universal themes of awe and humility.
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 for 3+ concerts, $15 students, $150 festival pass
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York , NY
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Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler
William Duckworth – Source: http://www.theurbanlist.com
Pianist Sarah Cahill pairs two post minimalist masterpieces: Imaginary Dances by William Duckworth (1943-2012) and selections from Rivers by Ann Southam (1937-2010). Splitting the evening with Cahill is Adam Tendler who will present brand new solo piano and electroacoustic works by his composer friends from across the world, including a premiere of his own.
Sunday, March 17 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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