Prototype Festival: Timur at Public

This week: concerts in New York (January 5 – January 11, 2014)

Prototype Festival

Focusing on innovative chamber-scale works, PROTOTYPE shows opera like it’s never been seen before: high-tech, edgy, and up-close. Operas include The Scarlet Ibis, Kansas City Choir Boy, Toxic Psalms, Sunken Cathedral, Winter’s Child, Aging Magician, and Timur and the Dime Museum.
Thursday, January 8 to 17 at Various Times
Various ticket prices
Various locations
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Tristan McKay

Tristan McKay presents a concert of provocative and virtuosic works for solo piano. This diverse program will feature classical and contemporary pieces by Bach, Debussy, Berio, Michael Finnissy, Leah Asher and Anne Goldberg. Goldberg’s piece Anima/Animus will receive its world premiere.
Thursday, January 8 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Nicolas Horvath, Piano

Philip Glass - Photo by Steve Pyke

Philip Glass – Photo by Steve Pyke

In his Carnegie Hall recital, pianist Nicolas Horvath presents the world premiere of Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes by a solo pianist, promoting his forthcoming Glass album for Grand Piano Records, Naxos. He also performs a selection of homages to Philip Glass.
Friday, January 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$50
Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
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Third Eye Orchestra Workshop

Third Eye Orchestra holds a free workshop for students in NYC.
Saturday, January 10 at 3:00 PM
Free
Sugarcube, Fulton & South, New York, NY
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Mick Rossi’s Outliers Series

Mick Rossi

Mick Rossi

4k4 performs at Mick Rossi’s Outliers series. 4k4 is an improvising quartet playing the music of ten musicians, featuring Mick Rossi (Philip Glass / Paul Simon), Andy Laster (New and Used), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass) and Mazz Swift (Vernon Reid).
Saturday, January 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Zach Seely Presents: Contemporary Insights

Steven Beck

Steven Beck

Pianist Steven Beck will be performing the opening concert for the contemporary insights 2015 concert series. The series will focus on challenging works written within the past 30 years.
Saturday, January 10 at 9:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Stuart Breczinski Winds Series

The music of Adam Cuthbért is featured.
Sunday, January 11 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Elizabeth Weinfield Presents SpectrumHP

A new series of historical performances, using period instruments for early and contemporary works.
Sunday, January 11 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet

Morton Feldman’s 80-minute late masterpiece, Piano and String Quartet, performed by Joseph Branciforte on piano and an all-star string quartet: Christopher Otto, Pauline Kim Harris, John Pickford Richards, and Mariel Roberts.
Sunday, January 11 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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