Spring For Music | New York Philharmonic
Christopher Rouse
Launching the Spring for Music festival, Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in the New York premiere of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Christopher Rouse’s Requiem, commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria.
Monday, May 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12.50-$25
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Aeolus Quartet
The Aeolus Quartet, Juilliard’s graduate resident quartet, makes its NYC debut and performs quartets by Haydn and Ravel and American composer Christopher Theofanidis’ Ariel Ascending on the 21st annual Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital.
Monday, May 5 at 8 PM
Free
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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An Evening of Chamber Music with the FSU College of Music
What Is Noise is a new music ensemble based in Tallahassee, Florida, that is committed to the performance and proliferation of accessible contemporary music. With two composers in the ensemble, by programming works by other living composers, the ensemble reinforces that new music is created by and for the impact of the community and society as a whole. What Is Noise performs eclectic concerts of works that include all members of the ensemble, as well as pieces featuring solo players or smaller chamber groups. The group uses spoken program notes and multimedia clips between works to educate and connect directly with the audience.
Monday, May 5 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Seattle Symphony Musicians
The night before the Seattle Symphony lights up Spring For Music at Carnegie Hall with the John Luther Adams piece Alex Ross touted as “the loveliest apocalypse in musical history,” Music Director Ludovic Morlot and six musicians head downtown to LPR for a late-night jam that connects John Cage’s prepared piano experiments in Seattle in the 30’s to the rise of grunge, airplanes, technology and environmentalism that define the city today. Contemporary music that expresses and explains a remarkable American city. Come find out how.
Monday, May 5 at 8 PM
Tickets $15-$30
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Spring For Music | Seattle Symphony
John Luther Adams (photo credit: cantaloupemusic.com)
The Seattle Symphony performs the NY Premiere of John Luther Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Become Ocean as well at music by Varese and Debussy.
Tuesday, May 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12.50-$25
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Mivos Quartet & Concert Black, with members of ETHEL, Dal Niente, & Color Field Ensemble – Opposites Attract
Ear Heart Music presents Opposites Attract with the Mivos Quartet, Concert Black, and members of ETHEL, Newspeak, & Color Field Ensemble featuring Sam Pluta‘s Chain Reactions/Five Events and the world premiere of Robert Honstein‘s RE: you.
Tuesday, May 6 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Jay Campbell
Cello recital by Jay Campbell with pieces by Salvatore Sciarrino, Jason Eckardt, and Jonathan Dawe.
Wednesday, May 7 at 7 PM
Free
Teatro of the Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY
Vox Temporum
Vox Temporum is a new music series curated by Brian Erickson and Lester St.louis at Spectrum. This series will feature new works by student composers, and will be presented by student performers. This month features music by Sam Reising and Yoon-Ji Lee.
Wednesday, May 7 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Jacob Cooper: Silver Threads Album Release
Jacob Cooper
Nonesuch releases composer Jacob Cooper’s label debut, Silver Threads, on April 29, 2014. The album comprises a six-song cycle performed by soprano Mellissa Hughes. Cooper wrote the first song, Silver Threads, for Hughes in the winter of 2011, setting a haiku attributed to the famous Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō for voice and electronic track. To expand it into a full cycle (all for voice and track), he enlisted five other poets to write text that was inspired by the haiku: Greg Alan Brownderville, Tarfia Faizullah, Kristin Kelly, Dora Malech, and Zach Savich. In celebration of the release of Silver Threads, Hughes and Cooper will perform the entire song cycle at Le Poisson Rouge on May 7, 2014. They will be joined by special guests Eric Beach (percussion), Nathan Koci (synths), and James Moore (guitar).
Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Michael Brown
With variations by Schubert and Beethoven serving as bookends, the program includes the New York premiere of Mr. Brown’s own Folk Variations (2013). The program also features music by two composition mentors—George Perle and Samuel Adler (whose work is dedicated to Michael Brown)—as he celebrates the release of his latest recording: George Perle, Eight Pieces (1938-1997) on Bridge Records.
Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students
Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY
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Dust in the Bottomland: Appalachia is Now!
TENTH INTERVENTION Presents: Dust in the Bottomland: Appalachia is Now!, an evening of contemporary classical music centered around an original two-person music drama “Dust in the Bottomland” that paints a complex and moving portrait of modern Appalachia.
Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10
Renee Weiller Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, 22 Barrow, New York, NY
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ensemble ni
For the debut concert of ensemble ni, they present a program that invites listeners to the journey towards the interiority of the sound. Recent works for solo instruments exploit the instruments in unexpected ways, allowing us to discover new ways of hearing the familiar instruments.
Thursday, May 8 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Virgil Thomson + Friends at the Chelsea Hotel
Virgil Thomson sitting in his bed, New York, NY (1947) – Photograph by W. Eugene Smith (LIFE)
Music director/pianist Jed Distler leads a special cast who bring to life the Bohemian, cultured, often-gay, and always musical world of Virgil Thomson-a Chelsea hotel resident of half a century. Works by Thomson, Copland, Rorem, Bowles, and Busby.
Thursday, May 8 at 7 PM
Tickets $32, Member $27, 30 and Under (with valid ID) $20
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
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Spring For Music | Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs works by R. Murray Schafer, Derek Charke, and Vincent Ho.
Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12.50-$25
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Han Chen
Missy Mazzoli – Photo Stephen Taylor
Pianist Han Chen performs works by Elliott Carter, Molly Joyce, Missy Mazzoli, Milica Paranosic, and Caroline Shaw.
Friday, May 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Spring For Music | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performs Harmonium by John Adams as well as the NY premiere of The Ordering of Moses by Dett.
Friday, May 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12.50-$25
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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* Sound * Sight * Movement * | NYsoundCircuit 5.2
NYsoundCircuit finishes off its fifth season in a blaze of sound, sight, and movement. Featured in sound is the versatile and raucous cellist, SETH WOODS who will present a program of premieres by George Lewis, Aaron Einbond, and Patricia Alessandrini. JAMES MOORE & ANDIE SPRINGER will give you colorful renditions of works for guitar and violin by Travis Just, Richard Maxwell, and James Moore with actor JIM FLETCHER. Oboist IAN SHAFER will give us a rare treat: an improvisation upon an improvisation on a piece by Elizabeth Hoffman. YUNG-LI CHEN will transform sound into movement, gracing us with her dance moves at various times. Flutist LAURA FALZON & violist EDMUNDO RAMIREZ serve you solos and duos by Carlos Castro, Nickos Harizanos, John Glover, and Shirish Korde. And to complete the show is our featured visual artist for the evening, the multi-faceted Korean-American/Kiwi artist YOUNG SUN HAN, projecting his work throughout the evening.
Friday, May 9 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $25 with open bar
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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i=u Brooklyn
i=u Brooklyn takes place @ Brooklyn Fire Proof in Bushwick on May 9th & 10th 2014. The two-day event highlights collaborations between internationally-renowned artists, musicians, dancers and live film-makers. i=u will take over Brooklyn Fire Proof and create a collaborative music-making environment between audience members and performers.
Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Brooklyn Fire Proof, 119 Ingraham St, Brooklyn, NY
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Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Photo by Lindsay Beyerstein
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performs at ShapeShifter Lab.
Saturday, May 10 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 online, $18 at door
ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY
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Retro Spectrum | Milica Paranosic
On her birthday, May 10th, composer and performance artist Milica Paranosic revisits highlights of her NY work of the past decade and shares insights of her upcoming projects.
Saturday, May 10 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Spring For Music | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra gives the NY Premiere of James MacMillan’s Woman of the Apocalypse.
Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $12.50-$25
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Seeing is Believing | Contemporaneous
Contemporaneous is a New York-based ensemble of nineteen musicians dedicated to performing and promoting the most exciting music of now. Through concerts, collaborations, recordings, and outreach programs, they have created a thriving community of artists and audience members united by a shared love for the best music being written in our time. Their Arts at The Park debut will include the world premiere of a new large-scale work by the talented and versatile Michael Harrison.
Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Park Avenue Christian Church, 1010 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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