Either/Or: Precursors and Parallels | Pop-Up Concerts
This Pop-Up celebrates a number of groundbreaking composers whose work weaves together the musical traditions of Romania with international influences—especially the use of mathematics in acoustic exploration. It traces the development of spectral music from George Enescu to Stefan Niculescu to his student Horatiu Radulescu, as well as the parallel explorations of Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis.
Tuesday, March 1 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Tangent: Robotica | Avant Music Festival
Tangents at the 2016 Avant Music Festival closes with Dafna Naphtali’s Robotica, inspired by the work of Al-Jazari, the 13th century Mesopotamian inventor and author of the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.
Tuesday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students/seniors
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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In Celebration of Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky
Chris Grymes presents an evening of songs in celebration of the life of Steven Stucky. The program will include performances of music that inspired, and was inspired by, the composer, including works by Brahms, Debussy, and Lutoslawski, Harold Meltzer and a world premiere written for this occasion by Christopher Stark. This concert features Stucky’s dear friends and musicians Xak Bjerken, Mimi Stillman, Caroline Stinson, Blair McMillen, and Laura Strickland, with more to be announced.
Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Lee Ranaldo & Dither | Ecstatic Music Festival
Sonic Youth founding member Lee Ranaldo and the experimental electric guitar quartet Dither perform Hurricane Transcriptions, a series of songs bridged with instrumental pieces.
Wednesday, March 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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R. Andrew Lee premieres Waller and Knight
Pianist R. Andrew Lee
Pianist R. Andrew Lee performs music for solo piano by Michael Vincent Waller, William Duckworth, and Adrian Knight.
Wednesday, March 2 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Martha Cargo + andPlay
andPlay
Flutist Martha Cargo, and violin/viola duo andPlay team up for a double bill of music for both instrumentation as well as a trio piece.
Wednesday, March 2 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Either/Or: Chamber Music of Ana-Maria Avram | Pop-Up Concerts
Either/Or performs the chamber music of Ana-Maria Avram at this Pop-Up Concert.
Thursday, March 3 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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permutations030316: Bearthoven
Bearthoven
Fresh off their midwest tour, Bearthoven returns to NYC for a homecoming show featuring their three new commissions for the 2015-2016 season. These new works by Amanda Feery, Adrian Knight, and Charlie Wilmoth, made possible by the Johnstone Fund for New Music, are the latest installment in the trio’s rapidly growing catalogue of commissions.
Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 250 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Randy Gibson | Avant Music Festival
The 2016 Avant Music Festival closes with the world premiere of Gibson’s immersive drone-epic Apparitions of The Four Pillars in The Midwinter Starfield Symmetry in a setting of Quadrilateral Starfield Symmety A:L Base 11:273 in The 181 Profusion. Lasting between three and four hours, it is played by a sextet with voices and instruments, underpinned throughout by a harmonically complex drone rooted in a 72 hz (low ‘D’) fundamental tone.
Saturday, March 5 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $16, $12 students/seniors
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Live45
New Thread Quartet performs the music of Diarmid Flatley and Spencer Arias.
Saturday, March 5 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Iancu Dumitrescu | Composer Portraits
Either/Or performs the music of Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu.
Saturday, March 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Augustus Arnon
Augustus Arnon presents the complete solo piano works of Milton Babbitt.
Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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