Barbez: Bella Ciao Record Release Show w/ Yotam Haber (opening compositions)
Yotam Haber
Sui generis Brooklyn-based ensemble Barbez celebrate the release of their fifth album Bella Ciao (Tzadik). Opening the show will be compositions inspired by Roman and Piedmontese Jewish musical sources written by the composer and MATA festival director Yotam Haber and performed by Barbez + special guests.
Wednesday, September 18 at 7 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Caroline Chin and Brian Snow: Elliott Carter Album Release Party
Caroline Chin (violin), and Brian Snow (cello) perform Elliot Carter’s Tre Duetti for violin and cello, Figments 1 & 2 for solo cello, Rhapsodic Musings and Fantasy from Four Lauds for solo violin, and Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello.
Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Here and Now Series | Mohammed Fairouz
Mohammed Fairouz
This concert for Bargemusic’s Here and Now series features three New York premieres by Mohammed Fairouz, two of which are about Syria. The program includes Al Sham for cello, Native Informant for violin, and Teta: A World I Loved for string quartet and flute.
Friday, September 20 at 7 PM
Tickets $35, $30 seniors, $15 students
Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Composers Concordance Season Launch Party and Fundraiser
This will be an evening of extraordinary music, poetry, fashion, food, raffles, games, DJs, dancing, drinks, photography, and more, including a preview of the upcoming season and the new initiative: CC_Edu. With performances and presentations by Roger Bonair-Agard, Thomas Carlo Bo, Liz Cherry, Dan Cooper, Tyra Juliette, Jacob Miller, Milica Paranosic, Gorazd Poposki, Gene Pritsker, Tobias Roberts, Vicky Vale, Erbium, DiJ. Noizepunk, and guests. Featured food sponsors include Chez Jacqueline, Pain D’Avignon, and Kafana.
Friday, September 20 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Gallery MC, 549 West 52nd Street, 8th Floor New York, NY
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Season Party & Open Studio | Yarn/Wire
Yarn Wire – Photo by Bobby Fisher
Now an annual event, Yarn/Wire throws open the doors to their studio in Ridgewood, Queens (aka “Troutman Hall”) for a blowout gala celebrating the new season. This year, come enjoy their new air conditioned space and help them ring in the new year.
Friday, September 20 at 7 PM
Free
Troutman Hall, 1717 Troutman St, #214, Ridgewood, NY
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super coda: Correspondence + Natura Morta (includes Emilie Lesbros)
The super coda (aka composer / ‘cellist / Valerie Kuehne) presents: Emile Lesbros (composer / vocalist / guitarist form Paris); Natura Morta (France / US), Frantz LORIOT (violin, viola, effects), Carlo COSTA (drums, objects), Sean ALI (bass, effects); Electric Pop Art Ensemble (France), Norbert LUCARAIN (drum kit.,beatbox, synthesizer.), Boris DARLEY (electric piano, laptop), Norbert LUCARAIN (drum kit.,beatbox, synthesizer.); and Tess Miller (sound/performance artist from Detroit).
Friday, September 20 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Cadillac Moon FUNdraiser Concert
Cadillac Moon Ensemble is kicking off their 2013-14 fundraising campaign (and a brand new season) with a concert of some of their favorite works they’ve commissioned over the last couple of years. Come hear some fun music, and enjoy some wine and baked goods afterwards!
Friday, September 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, New York
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Terry Riley’s “In C” In Fort Greene Park
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn is dispensing with their traditional orchestral program in Fort Greene Park and instead hosting an open invite performance of Terry Riley’s In C. The goal is to marshal as many musicians as possible for an epic open-air performance that fills the park with sound.
Saturday, September 21 at 6 PM
Free
Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
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Sonorama: The Lost Space Age Pop Music of Esquivel Featuring MR. HO’S ORCHESTROTICA
Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica is the world’s only big band dedicated to performing the lost space-age pop music of Juan Garcia Esquivel. Led by Mr. Ho (Brian O’Neill), the 20+ orchestra has rescued the king-of-space-age-bachelor-pad’s arrangements via meticulous by-ear transcriptions of Esquivel’s recordings, which were known for exploiting the new sound called “stereo” of the 50s and 60s. The ensemble-an experimental big band augmented with atypical roles such as slide guitar, four singers, B3 organ, and three percussionists-recreates the Hollywood, easy Latin, crime jazz, and bachelor pad sounds of mid-century living room hi-fis live on the Schimmel stage.
Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St, New York, NY
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Poetry & Music – ‘Unhinged’ | Composers Concordance
Gene Pritsker
Composers Concordance presents its free music-and-poetry event ‘Unhinged.’ The program will feature poems and recitations by Roger Bonair-Agard, Jacob Miller, Tobias Roberts, and Mev Smith, among others, and musical compositions and performances by alto Christina Ascher, composer-pianist Thomas Carlo Bo, composer-baritone Charles Coleman, composer-bassist Dan Cooper, flutist Kaoru Hinata, composer-keyboardist Daniel Palkowski, percussionist Cesare Papetti, composer-singer Milica Paranosic, composer-pianist Joseph Pehrson, composer-guitarist Gene Pritsker, and guitarist Sean Satin.
Sunday, September 22 at 3 PM
Free
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, 499 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY
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Dalit Warshaw, Piano
Pianist Dalit Warshaw premieres the following works: The Sexton Preludes (2012), Responses (2013), First Love Song (2013), and Confessional [or: The Trial and the Ecstasy of Chiara Signorini] (2013).
Sunday, September 22 at 3 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Ramin Arjomand
Ramin Arjomand performs two sets of ~35 minutes of original, improvisatory material with intermission.
Sunday, September 22 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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