This week: concerts in New York (November 17 – November 23, 2014)

CONTACT!: John’s Playlist

John Adams curates and hosts an evening of contemporary chamber music. The program features works by Daniel Bjarnason, Ingram Marshall, Missy Mazzoli and a New York premiere by Timo Andres.
Monday, November 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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MATA Jr.

Face the Music performs eight new student works composed for the MATA Jr. Festival as well as works by four MATA alumni (Tristan Perich, Missy Mazzoli, Taylor Brook, and Bryan Jacobs).
Monday, November 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30 (reserved seating), $20 general admission, $15 students
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th St, New York, NY
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Ana Cervantes

Ana Cervantes will perform works from her recent commissioning/recording project Canto de la Monarca: Mujeres en México (Song of the Monarch: Women in Mexico), which features new pieces by 16 composers from six different countries, inspired by important women in Mexican history.
Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, Free for members
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Tangent: Exchange

Erik Carlson (ICE) and Chris Otto (JACK) perform the World Premiere of noted wandelweiser composer Michael Pisaro’s three hour duet Exchange.
Monday, November 17 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students/seniors/members
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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A Centennial Tribute to Andrzej Panufnik

The American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) celebrates the centennial of the iconic Polish composer Andrezj Panufnik, performing his String Quartet no. 2 Messages and Song to the Virgin Mary, a work originally for a cappella voices which the composer arranged for string sextet.
Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket and strings with JACK Quartet
10 PM – Chamber music of Ken Thomson
Tuesday, November 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket and percussion with Tigue
10 PM – Bearthoven
Wednesday, November 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Black Mountain Songs

At North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, erstwhile commune and artistic playground of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and many others, a spirit of radical democracy prevailed. Students and teachers shared roles and work, boundaries between disciplines dissolved, and art bled into life, nurturing an atmosphere of unfettered creative collaboration. In Black Mountain Songs, that collective thread is renewed.
Thursday, November 20 to 22 at 7:30 PM, November 23 at 3 PM
Tickets start at $20
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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Oceanic Verses | Paola Prestini

Helga Davis, Christopher Burchett, and Julian Wachner will perform selections from Paolo Prestini’s Oceanic Verses.
Thursday, November 20 at 6:30 PM
Free
Dillon Gallery, 555 West 25th Street, New York, NY
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NOW Ensemble

In a celebratory program, NOW Ensemble commemorates 10 years of creating fresh, wide-eyed chamber music with a concert that moves from the group’s earliest pieces, including Judd Greenstein’s Folk Music, to a brand new commission by Derek Bermel. The program also features pieces by Missy Mazzoli, Timo Andres, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Patrick Burke, and Mark Dancigers.
Thursday, November 22 at 7:30 PM
Free
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, 61 W 62 St New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket No Ink
Thursday, November 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Nils Frahm

Nils Frahm performs at Glasslands.
Thursday, November 20 at 11:30 PM
Tickets $30 advance, $35 day of show
Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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Notes on Fiction: Orfeo by Richard Powers

MacArthur Fellow and author Richard Powers joins The Nouveau Classical Project and Chimera String Quartet. Part reading, part concert, this event will take the audience through the adventure of Peter Els, a composer turned scientist whose attempts to find musical patterns in living cells arouses the suspicions of Homeland Security.
Friday, November 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $18
The Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY
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Orchestra Underground: Monk’s Sphere | American Composers Orchestra

ACO’s season opener features a rare performance of orchestral music by the pioneering composer and performer Meredith Monk with members of her ensemble.
Friday, November 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43-$50
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Project Three | Ecouter Ensemble

Three is an original new music project featuring music and live film performed on stage. 3 musicians will be behind the film screen while the films are played. Each film will have its own theme and dramatic story. Written by composers from all around the world: Cristina Spinei (New York), Daniel Nass (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Luci Holland (Edinburgh, Scotland), Anthony Green (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Clio Montrey (Vienna/Calgary), Rebecca Brandt (New York), John Winiarz (Montreal).
Friday, November 21 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket movie night:
with “Night Mail” and “The Magic Life of Milarepa”
Friday, November 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Blood Makes Noise | Lesley Flanigan

In conjunction with her performative sound installation Residue, Lesley Flanigan presents a special evening concert in the Guggenheim Museum’s Tower Gallery Level 5. Performing on minimal electronic instruments she builds from speakers and microphones, Flanigan accumulates layers of feedback and vocalization to create a physical field of noise.
Saturday, November 22 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Bob Kabbalah
Saturday, November 22 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Mick Rossi: Outliers series

For this month’s Outliers Series, Mick Rossi brings together this long-standing trio for a rare appearance, featuring Kermit Driscoll (Bill Frisell) and Charles Descarfino (ACO).
Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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ampli2

Percussion duo ampli2 performs music by John Luther Adams, Mark Applebaum, Stuart Saunders Smith, Tristan Perich, Matt Evans, and Missy Mazzoli.
Saturday, November 22 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Gutbucket: The Stone Residency

8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra (the finale)
Sunday, November 23 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 per set
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Warp Trio & andPlay

Combining Forces for the first time, NYC based Chamber Ensembles andPlay & Warp Trio present an afternoon of contemporary chamber music at Spectrum.
Sunday, November 23 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Brian Ellingsen

Double Bassist Brian Ellingsen will present a program of contemporary pieces for solo bass. The program will feature two new pieces by Brian himself, as well as the premier of a new solo bass piece by Naftali Schindler. Also on the program will be the premiere of An Iliad Suite by Mark Bennett, Luciano Berio’s Psy, and the epic Theraps by Iannis Xenakis.
Monday, November 23 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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