Face the Music: TAKE OFF!
Face the Music – Photo by Meg Goldman
Face the Music will feature two of its enembles: Face the Music Symphony will perform Symphonic Greek Dances by Paris Lavidis and Ravi Shankar’s rarely performed collaboration, Passages. Sound Bite Orchestra, which specializes in forms of creative improvisation, will perform an original work inspired by Walter Thompson’s Sound Painting.
Monday, December 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Svjetlana Bukvich: Works from EVOLUTION and other stories
Bosnian-New Yorker Svjetlana Bukvich (minimoog, piano, voice) brings her signature sound to Roulette in a boundary-defying set featuring compositions from EVOLUTION, her recent release on PARMA’s Big Round Records.
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Adrianna Mateo
Adrianna Mateo
New music violinist Adrianna Mateo presents original songs with Stitch, her baby blue Tele, and various other instruments in tow.
Wednesday, December 10 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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New and Old Music for Baroque Violas
Violists Kristina Giles and Jessica Meyer team up for an evening of duos and solos on gut-stringed violas. Baroque and classical works by LeClair and Campagnoli will be performed alongside the premiere of a duo by Jessica Meyer and a collection of duets by Luciano Berio. Meyer will also perform her solo loop of Dido from her new album, Sounds of Being.
Wednesday, December 10 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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One Art
Paula Kimper
Femme Lunatique Productions (UK), Companion Star (USA), and Once in a Blue Moon Music (USA) present an exclusive first reading of One Art, the inaugural commission for a song set based on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Composer Paula Kimper and soprano Laure Meloy will give a work-in-progress performance, read selections of Bishop’s poetry, and discuss plans to complete, premiere, and record this new work.
Thursday, December 11 at 6:30 PM
Limited Availability
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Brazil’s Camerata Aberta
Camerata Aberta – Photo courtesy of the artists
Music of the Americas presents São Paulo-based new music group Camerata Aberta for the third time in a concert featuring new pieces by Brazilian composers.
Thursday, December 11 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, Free for members
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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The Voice of the Violin
The Voice of the Violin continues Gil Morgenstern’s showcasing of the singularly expressive range of the violin and the diverse manner in which composers have exploited it. This program will take us around the globe, from east to west and from the Baroque to contemporary styles. Highlights include an elegant Sonata by Jean-Marie Leclaire, Beethoven’s grand Violin Sonata in G Major, The Stream Flows by the Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng, and the angular modernity of Elliott Carter’s Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi.
Thursday, December 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40, $20 students
Avenues: The World School, 259 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY
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Guy Barash Presents: Eavesdropping
Guy Barash – Photo by Shimpei Takeda
The series Eavesdropping continues at Spectrum.
Thursday, December 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Boguinia Brothers
Featuring music by Henryk Gorecki, Yuri Boguinia, Steve Reich, and J.S. Bach.
Friday, December 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros performs at Roulette.
Friday, December 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30, $25 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Mick Rossi: Outliers Series
For this month’s Outliers Series, Mick Rossi (Philip Glass / Paul Simon) writes new works for this divergent trio, featuring Michael Bates (Michael Blake) and Jeff Davis (Tony Malaby).
Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Reinterpretations: Intoning Atonality
Ramin Arjomand
Ramin Arjomand, through-composed and improvised piano.
Sunday, December 14 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Voluptuous Virtuosity: Drew Baker Portrait
Voluptuous Virtuosity, a series presenting virtuoso performers and provocative programs, continues with a portrait of composer Drew Baker.
Monday, December 14 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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