This week: concerts in New York (November 11 – November 17, 2013)

Creators in Concert | OPERA America

OPERA America’s Creators in Concert series features performances from new American operas and songs by leading composers and librettists. After each performance in the National Opera Center, featured artists discuss their work and answer questions from the audience. Discussion continues at an informal reception that concludes each event.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7 PM
Free for members, $20 for non-members
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra

The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra performs at Spectrum.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Juice Vocal Ensemble

Juice vocal ensemble performs a program that includes the New York premiere of a new work by Toby Twining.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30PM
Tickets $15 – $20
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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The Strasbourg Legacy: Celebrating 50 Years | Juilliard Percussion Ensemble

The concert celebrates the 50th anniversary of Les Percussions de Strasbourg, a group that has done more to expand the repertoire for percussion ensemble than any other. The program features Ondřej Adámek’s Fishbones (2007); Stefano Gervasoni’s Bleu jusqu’au blanc (1995); and Philippe Manoury’s Le Livre des Claviers (Book of the Keyboards) (1987).
Tuesday, November 12 at 8 PM
Free
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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Quartet Berlin-Tokyo

Quartet Berlin-Tokyo performs at Spectrum.
Tuesday, November 12 at 9 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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BOTCH

A broken word opera, BOTCH goes in search of the voice and its mutations in contemporary digital culture. In this convergence of sound and performance, a dynamic ensemble cuts, pastes, and scrambles language into an intricate audioscape. More of a processing system than a traditional score, BOTCH unfolds differently each night through the creative misfiring of voices at their outer limits.
Tuesday, November 12 to Saturday, November 23 at 7 PM
Tickets $20
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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Night Scenes from the Ospedale | Robert Honstein

The Italian Academy at Columbia University presents the acclaimed young Baroque ensemble, the Sebastians, in a performance exploring innovations in music from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries: Night Scenes from the Ospedale, featuring a new suite by composer Robert Honstein and selections from Vivald’s L’Estro Armonico.
Wednesday, November 13 at 7 PM
Free
Teatro of the Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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The 2nd Annual Leo Ruiz Memorial Recital

The program features Béla Bartók’s Three Folks Songs from Csík County; Juraj Filas’ Little Slovak Rhapsody; György Orbán’s Sonata Concertante; Leó Weiner’s Ballada; Bohuslav Martinů’s Sonatina; Witold Lutosławski’s Dance Preludes; and Rezső Kókai’s Four Hungarian Dances.
Wednesday, November 13 at 8 PM
Free
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Sonorous Strings: Orchestra Concert

Representative of a true kaleidoscope of styles, the evening will feature music of the Baroque and Romantic eras as well as that of the 20th and 21st centuries. Special soloists include Rachel Ku, violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing the New York premiere of The Desires for Viola & String Orchestra, a new work by Ensemble 212 Composer in Residence, Ke-Chia Chen and core member violinist, Miyun Chung, performing the world premiere of a new arrangement of Vitali’s Chaconne for Violin & String Orchestra. Mahler’s tender Adagietto is contrasted with two works with folk elements from different eras to round out the evening’s fantastic program: Vivaldi’s vigorous Concerto ‘alla rustica’ and Bartok’s Divertimento.
Wednesday, November 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $20; $12 for seniors and $10 for students with ID
Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church at Lincoln Center, 152 West 66th Street, New York, NY
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Eavesdropping | Objective Sound

A daylong extravaganza of workshops, talks, and performances that explore music created with found objects, nonconventional instruments, electric sound sources, and other oddities. Presenting artists include Katie Down, Terry Dame, Daniel Davidovsky, Nadav Assor and Ronen Shai. Noon – 5pm: Instructors will prepare their presentations. Members of the public are welcome to witness the magic coming into being. 5 – 8:00: Workshops. 8:30 – 11: Concert.
Thursday, November 14 at 12 PM
Full day pass: $25, $20 students and seniors
Evening concert: $15, $12 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Dividing Line | Gibney Dance

Created by Artistic Director Gina Gibney, the piece features an original score by renowned composer and longtime Gibney collaborator Ryan Lott (a.k.a. Son Lux) which will be performed live by the acclaimed American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME).
Thursday, November 14 to Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets from $15
Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY
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Ekmeles sings 21st Century Americans

Ekmeles vocal ensemble will perform a concert of 21st century American works, including two world premiere commissions and the US premiere of a substantial work by an important compositional voice.
Friday, November 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Benzaquen Hall, The DiMenna Center, 450 W 37th St New York, NY
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Breathe | Contemporaneous

In its season-opening event, Contemporaneous will perform the program Breathe in the new music series Music at First. Featured composers Albert Behar (world premiere), Samuel Carl Adams and Dylan Mattingly work extensively in New York, but the cool fog of their common San Francisco Bay Area roots is evident in their music.
Friday, November 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10
First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, 124 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Juilliard Orchestra

Jeffrey Milarsky, leads the Juilliard Orchestra in John Adams’ Tromba Iontana (Distant Trumpet); Samuel Barber’s Concerto for Piano, Op. 38; R. Strauss’ Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils; and Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England.
Friday, November 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students/seniors
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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Permutations Series | Ghost Ensemble

With SUPERNATURAL SOUNDS, the Permutations series offers a portrait of Ghost Ensemble with portentous echoes of things to come. The performance will feature music by Hildegard von Bingen, George Crumb, Pauline Oliveros, Giacinto Scelsi, and world premieres by Ghost Ensemble composers Sky Macklay and Ben Richter. A wine reception will follow the concert.
Friday, November 15 at 7 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Alarm Will Sound: All Steve Reich Concert

Artist in Residence Alarm Will Sound perform music of contemporary American composer Steve Reich including the New York premiere of his piece Radio Rewrite.
Saturday, November 16 at 7 PM
Tickets $50, $1 ages 7-16 (when accompanied by an adult)
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave New York, NY
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Mick Rossi

Mick Rossi performs at Spectrum.
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Composer’s Voice Featuring Liana Valente

Liana Valente travels from Washington D.C. to serve New York City a delectable treat before the Thanksgiving festivities begin. She will begin with a scrumptious selection of 15 short one-minute miniatures by 15 different composers written specifically for her theatrical talents. This New York City premiere of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame is an encore of her previous performances in Florida and D.C earlier this year. The composers included are: José Jesus de Azevedo Souza, Juan Maria Solare, Jana Skarecky, Andy Evan Cohen, Frank E. Warren, Roger May, John Mackay, Yan Pang, Erik Branch, Peter Nickol, Timothy J. Brown, Phil Taylor, Rodrigo Baggio, Christopher M. Wicks, and Ken Paoli.
Sunday, November 17 at 1 PM
Free
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York, NY
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Elliott Carter: An American Original | American Symphony Orchestra

A year after his death at age 103, the ASO pays tribute to Elliott Carter, a life-long New Yorker, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and one of the greatest composers of the second half of the 20th century. This performance of six orchestral works by the prolific American composer, who published more than 50 of his works after the age of 90, reveals the range and extent of Carter’s inventive genius.
Sunday, November 17 at 2 PM
Tickets $25 – $50
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Drew Spradlin and Lavinia Pavlish

Drew Spradlin & Lavinia Pavlish perform music by Gabriel Fauré, Jonathan Ragonese, Zoltan Kodaly, and Drew Spradlin.
Sunday, November 17 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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