A Tribute To Robert Ashley
With the sudden passing of Robert Ashley, Dorian Wallace’s The Free Sound Ahn-somble presents a tribute to the master composer.
Tuesday, March 18 at 9 PM
Tickets $12
SOMETHIN’ Jazz Club, 212 E 52nd St, New York, NY
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Tentative Armor
Dixon Place is presenting the premiere of Michael Harren’s new solo work, Tentative Armor. Equal parts music and monologue, Tentative Armor is a darkly comedic collection of the performer’s first-person stories of grief, sexuality and self-discovery.
Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 at the door, $12 advance, $10 students/seniors
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY
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Timo Andres, Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Becca Stevens, & Nathan Koci | Ecstatic Music Festival
Timothy Andres – Photo by Jonathan Waiter
Timo Andres offers a new song cycle specifically created for fellow rising-star composers and multi-instrumentalists Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Becca Stevens and Nathan Koci. A multi-movement work inspired by old fashioned American parlor songs, Andres has invented his own set of “work songs” set to texts having to do with facets of professions, jobs and labor. The song arrangements are tailored to the unique strengths of the group, with the singers joining in on guitars, keyboards, accordion and banjo. The program will also include individual work by each of the other gifted composers in the collective, all arranged for the quintet to perform together.
Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street, New York, NY
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Guillermo Laporta / Cre.Art Project Ensemble: Visuality Project
Visuality is a series of multimedia concerts, an exploration of where light and sound intersect in their purest forms. Each performance will feature a different solo artist from Cre.Art’s core roster performing music with electronics matched to multimedia visuals.
Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, New York, NY
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Matt Ingalls | Musical Ecologies Pop-Up Event
Musical Ecologies will host a Pop-up Event* featuring Bay Area-based composer, clarinetist, concert producer and computer music programmer Matt Ingalls. Making a rare visit to New York City, Ingalls will perform a program of solo works for clarinet and electronics featuring his own compositions CrusT (1996/rev2014) for clarinet and tape, and his 30-minute-continuous-micro-timbre-circular-breath-tour-de-force clarinet solo that explores extended techniques that interact with the acoustic space. The evening will also include Steve Reich’s Reed Phase (1966) and Clarinet Threads (1985) by Denis Smalley.
Wednesday, March 19 at 8 PM
Admission by contribution
The Old Stone House in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Curtis 20/21 Ensemble
Krzysztof Penderecki
In celebration of Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th birthday, the composer leads the Curtis Institute of Music’s contemporary music ensemble, Curtis 20/21, in a program of his own music.
Thursday, March 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35-$45
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Changing Night with PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail
Hip Hop poetry trio The Mighty Third Rail and innovative classical ensemble PUBLIQuartet join forces in a mash up of strings, verses and beat-boxing where the worlds of hip hop and classical music collide. In a re-imagining of Ligeti’s Quartet No. 1 Metamorphoses Nocturnes as the score for a modern day telling of the Garden of Eden, Eve has gone missing and within the course of one night, Adam’s entire contemporary existence is evolving before his eyes. The Mighty Third Rail takes on the role of civilization, PUBLIQuartet represents that of nature, and violinist Curtis Stewart serves as the bridge to both worlds in this journey that questions the nature of change, survival, and how the things we build to inhabit this dynamic world can co-exist with the natural without destroying it.
Thursday, March 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $32; Members $27; 30 and under (with valid ID) $20
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Colim Stetson & Brooklyn Youth Chorus | Ecstatic Music Festival
Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Dianne Berkun – Photo by Joshua Simpson
Colin Stetson, a member of Bon Iver and Arcade Fire beloved by both avant-garde players and indie rock bands, is a master of coaxing unique, subtle sounds from his saxophone, and of pairing those sounds with beautiful vocal writing. He is joined by two idiosyncratic ensembles: first, the Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus will premiere a new work (co-commissioned by the BYC) written by Stetson for them alone, along with new arrangements of songs originally written for the voice of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. They will also present a new arrangement written by violinist/composer Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire. Stetson will then be joined by a newly-formed band, including Greg Fox, Shahzad Ismaily, Stuart Bogie, Ryan Ferreira, and more, to reinterpret Gorecki’s widely-beloved Third Symphony.
Saturday, March 22 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street, New York, NY
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Kathy Tagg | New Sounds of Africa
The series places a spotlight on music and musicians from the African continent, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa, in a year that sees the 20th year anniversary of the first ever democratic elections in South Africa. This series points a spotlight on music and musicians that veer away from the mainstream conception of what the continent has to offer in terms of musical offerings, spotlighting those experimenting with sound, genres and technology and those in the fields of contemporary classical and jazz. Additionally there will be occasional concerts that focus on the wealth of American music that has been influenced by music from the African continents.
Sunday, March 23 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, New York, NY
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