The Debussy “Six” | Music Mondays
Thomas Adès – Photo by Maurice Foxall
100 years ago Claude Debussy embarked upon an ambitious project of six large-scale sonatas for “diverse instruments” but completed only three before his death in 1918. Three contemporary masters, Thomas Adès, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, and Libby Larsen (in a world premiere) help complete the set, offering their own sonatas for the eccentric combinations of instruments envisioned by the great French composer, realized by 11 stellar performers.
Monday, January 26 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent/Broadway Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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MATA Composer’s School: I’ve Graduated, Now What? Finding your Feet in the New Music Community with Missy Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli will give a crash course on life after graduate school for composers.
Tuesday, January 27 at 5:30 PM
TIckets $5 (comes with free drink)
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Shai Wosner & the Parker Quartet: The Schubert Effect 1
Missy Mazzoli – Photo Stephen Taylor
Schubert’s effect reaches across 200 years to touch the great composers of our times. Fragments of the Sonata in A resonate within Missy Mazzoli’s Isabelle Eberhardt, and Kurtág’s Aus der Ferne V echoes the second movement of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.”
Wednesday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
Kaufmann Concert Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St, New York, NY
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A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80
Terry Riley
A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 pays tribute to Riley’s enduring impact with the NYC premieres of new solo piano pieces written in honor of his eightieth birthday by Samuel Carl Adams, Evan Ziporyn, Pauline Oliveros, Gyan Riley, Christine Southworth, Dylan Mattingly, and Danny Clay, combined with some of Riley’s own dazzling piano compositions.
Thursday, January 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can: Beauty Is Power
Tied to the Museum’s exhibition, Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power, the first exhibition about the legendary cosmetics entrepreneur and trendsetting art collector Helena Rubinstein, the performance will highlight powerful women composers.
Thursday, January 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $18, $15 students/seniors, $12 Jewish Museum and Bang on a Can members
The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Karl Larson
Karl Larson
pianist Karl Larson, will deliver a concert of the piano music featuring the NYC premiere of Robert Honstein’s monumental new work for solo piano, Grand Tour, as well as the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s hard hit. The program will also feature selections by Olivier Messiaen and Scott Wollschleger.
Thursday, January 29 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Bach and Beyond Part 3 | Jennifer Koh
Violinist Jennifer Koh returns to 92nd Street Y to perform Bach and Beyond Part 3, the last program of her three-part recital series exploring the history of solo violin repertoire by pairing Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas with modern-day works and new commissions.
Saturday, January 31 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35
92Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St, New York, NY
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