This week: concerts in New York (October 21 – October 27, 2013)

Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements/The Water: FLOOD

TSS teams up with new music duo Zentripetal for part two in their series of musical perspectives on the climate extremes experienced globally and seen locally in Brooklyn, as heard through element-inspired chamber music of living composers. On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, The Water: FLOOD looks at the ways that water affects our everyday lives in this borough through the lens of the losses suffered from that catastrophic event.
Monday, October 21 at 7 PM
Tickets $12 at the door, $10 in advance
ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Bonjour

Bonjour is not quite your average chamber music ensemble. With a rather uncharacteristic instrumentation, this group has altered rules of the game. Formed around the music of composer and bassist, Florent Ghys, they made their official debut at NYC’s Flea Theater in the spring of 2012. The music they play freely crosses the boundaries between pop, minimalist and contemporary. Their most recent project is inspired by the North Indian classical tradition, each of the compositions being associated with a specific moment of the week.
Monday, October 21 at 8 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $15 at the door
Drom, 85 Avenue A, New York, NY
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NYU Interactive Arts Series

NYU Steinhardt’s Music Technology and Composition Program presents the Interactive Arts Series featuring compositions by electro-acoustic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. The 2013 Fall IAS is a special event where we celebrate Morton Subotnick’s 80th birthday! Pianist Kathleen Supové and trombonist Ben Herrington will performing works for piano, trombone, and electronics.
Monday, October 21 at 8 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Cornelius Dufallo and Patrick Derivaz: Album-Release Party

Former ETHEL violinist and composer Cornelius Dufallo joins forces with bass player, composer, and producer Patrick Derivaz in a new ambient project. Dufallo describes the work as, “a meditative, quasi-hypnotic aesthetic in which variation is slow to a nearly imperceptible rate.”
Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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David Kaplan, piano w/ music of Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, Andrew Norman, and Timo Andres

David Kaplan performs the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, Andrew Norman, and Timo Andres at (le) poisson rouge.
Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Ursula Mamlok at 90

The Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space will a host an evening dedicated to Mamlok, featuring scenes from Anne Berrini’s documentary, Ursula Mamlok: Movements, as well as a concert and dialogue with the composer. Featured performers include the Klenke Quartet (their US debut), soprano Lucy Shelton, clarinetist Moran Katz, violist Stephanie Griffin, and pianists Marcia Eckert, Joel Sachs, and Cheryl Seltzer. Musicologist Bettina Brand will conduct the interview with Mamlok.
Wednesday, October 23 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25; $15 members, students, and seniors; children under 12 free
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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In The Spirit | Philip Glass

In the Spirit will celebrate the healing power of music rooted in spiritual traditions stretching from Tibet and China to Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the US.
Thursday, October 24 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35-$90
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
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New Music For Bassoon

Bassoonist Midori Samson performs a recital of new music for bassoon written by Brandon Scott Rumsey, Sam Reising, Molly Joyce, and Han Chen.
Thursday, October 24 at 8 PM
Free
The Juilliard School, Morse Hall, 155 West 65th Street New York, NY
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An Evening with Krzysztof Penderecki

The Polish Cultural Institute New York together with Symphony Space and radio WQXR-Q2 joins the world celebration of Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th birthday. The composer will appear in person at Symphony Space for a live broadcast hosted by WQXR-Q2’s Helga Davis, with performances by the Penderecki String Quartet, Ensemble Pi, Matthew Lipman, Jay Campbell, and by musicians from the Yale School of Music: Nathan Lesser, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Alan Ohkubo, cello; and Eric Anderson, clarinet. The event is presented as part of Symphony Space’s In the Salon series.
Friday, October 25 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: Adult $32; Member Adult $27; 30 and under (with valid id) $20
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Adding Fuel To The Fire | Orchestra Underground

The season-opening concert, titled Adding Fuel to the Fire, features the world premiere of rising-star composer and ACO’s 2012 Underwood Commission winner Peter Fahey’s A Mirror to Kathleen’s Face for orchestra and electronics and the New York premiere of Fred Lerdahl’s Spirals. Julia Wolfe’s driving multimedia work Fuel with film by Bill Morrison and Christopher Theofanidis’ Bassoon Concerto performed by Estonian virtuoso Martin Kuuksmann complete the program. This concert marks conductor Robert Spano’s first-ever appearance with ACO.
Friday, October 25 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43-$50
Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, 57th & 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Electronium: The Future Was Then | BAM Next Wave Festival

Following the critical acclaim of last year’s Shuffle Culture, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (The Roots) returns to BAM with an all-star mash-up that celebrates the pioneering works of electronic music. Electronic composer Dan Deacon, DJ-composer Jeremy Ellis, R&B singer-producer Tom Krell (How to Dress Well), avant-R&B outfit Sonnymoon, and conductor Andrew Cyr & Metropolis Ensemble join Grammy Award winner Questlove to sample and deconstruct seminal recordings by everyone from Robert Moog and Raymond Scott to Stevie Wonder and George Clinton into a feverishly modern new playlist. Old-school blips and beeps, sine waves, and analog synth solos mix with live vocals and contemporary electronics in this ecstatic riff on the analog revolution that paved the way for our music today.
Friday, October 25 to Saturday, October 26 at 8 PM
Tickets $25-$55
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Ned Rorem

Featuring Four Colors composed for Thomas Piercy and other works for clarinet and piano, songs and solo piano works.
Saturday, October 26 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain: ISSUE at 10

As part of ISSUE’s fall festival celebrating 10 years of operation, Yarn/Wire perform Tristan Perich’s Chalk– a relentless and hypnotic chamber piece for 2 pianos, 2 xylophones, and four-channel 1-bit electronics. Clocking in at 50 minutes, the piece hypnotically fuses acoustic and electronic sound. The acoustic material is relentless and non-stop, requiring exacting ensemble precision. Expressive application of Perich’s 1-bit tone generating microchips provide sonic support while pacing the performers and pushing physical capabilities to the limit. Also on the bill: performer and composer Ashley Paul, whose song-based solo albums have gained renown for their psychologically intense combinations of melody and raw texture.
Saturday, October 26 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Ingram Marshall DVD Release Concert

Composer Ingram Marshall and photographer Jim Bengston will introduce the 2 works on their new Starkland DVD, one exploring the haunting former Alcatraz prison, the other focusing on a striking, abandoned German monastery. Playback will premiere Marshall’s new immersive surround sound mixes, along with Bengston’s exquisite videos.
Sunday, October 27 at 12 PM (doors at 11:30am)
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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Music for Voice, Viola and Harp

Kristin Slipp (Vocals), Joanna Mattrey (Viola), and Lucia Stavros (Harp) formed their trio in February of 2013. The trio will present newly commissioned works for their group by composers from New York and Boston.
Sunday, October 27 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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