Pierrot Lunaire: A Dystopian Valentine’s
Arnold Schoenberg
Canadian soprano Charlotte Mundy joins pianist Michael Brofman, flutist Martha Cargo, clarinetist Mark Dover, violinist Hajnal Pivnick, cellist Colin Stokes, and conductor Benjamin Grow in a complete performance of Schoenberg’s seminal 20th century work Pierrot lunaire. The evening begins with a prelude with live musical accompaniment by pianist Dorian Wallace to Luis Buñuel’s dreamlike silent film Un chien andalou.
Monday, February 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Bowery Poetry, 308 Bowery, New York, NY
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Robert McDuffie & McDuffie Center for Strings Ensemble
Robert McDuffie & McDuffie Center for Strings Ensemble perform the music of John Adams, Elliot Goldenthal, and Béla Bartók.
Monday, February 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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New Music from Israel | CONTACT! at SubCulture
Yotam Haber
CONTACT! at SubCulture continues with New Music from Israel featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic performing a program focusing on chamber music by contemporary Israeli composers.
Monday, February 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Tzadik CD Release Party
Hypercolor and Dither come together for a release party for both of their albums on Tzadik.
Monday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$15
JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn NY
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Paul Moravec & Friends | NYFOS Next
Paola Prestini
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec hosts and curates an evening that includes selections from his exceptional body of vocal music, including his forthcoming opera The Shining. The opera, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, is set to have its world premiere with Minnesota Opera in May 2016. The evening’s program also includes selections from Moravec’s friends and colleagues James Primosch, Christopher Theofanidis, and Paola Prestini.
Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
OPERA America’s National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
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Laura Ortman: Electroacoustic Atmospheres | Musical Ecologies
Musical Ecologies continues Thursday February 12th with Brooklyn-based composer and musician Laura Ortman. Playing violin, keyboards, guitars and other instruments, Ortman will be joined by electronic artists Michael Garofalo and Pat Noecker for an evening of electroacoustic atmospheres and ambiance. Incorporating diverse influences ranging from folk music, post-rock, ambient, free improvisation and electronica, the artists will be performing as a trio together for the first time.
Thursday, February 12 at 8:00 PM
$10 suggested donation
The Old Stone House
in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue
, Brooklyn, NY
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Experiments in Opera: Sisyphus
There’s more to the myth of Sisyphus than a man pushing a boulder up a hill. In this new, collaboratively-composed evening-length opera, the famous story is twisted, pulled apart, and reassembled in a collage of characters, genres and questions.
Friday, February 13-21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations
Ramin Arjomand
This month at Reinterpretations, pianist Ramin Arjomand and cellist Chris Irvine present an all-improvisation program.
Sunday, February 15 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Salome Scheidegger
Pianist Salome Scheidegger gives a solo concert at Spectrum.
Sunday, February 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Vox Temporum
The Vox Temporum series continues at Spectrum.
Monday, February 15 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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