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This week: concerts in New York (October 24 – October 30, 2016)

Ensemble Signal Plays More Reich | Pop-Up Concerts

The music of Steve Reich once again takes center stage as Ensemble Signal guides audiences through three of Reich’s most intimate compositions, including Cello Counterpoint and Pendulum Music.
Tuesday, October 25 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Amorphous IV

Amorphous IV, consisting of Kato Hideki, John King, Ursula Scherrer, and Nana Tsuda, present their first collaboration, a performative installation of sound, light, and movement in which temporal and spatial changes (or no changes) are determined in real time. The audience is encouraged to walk around during the installation. This first-time collaborative project will combine all forms of media within the live installation format.
Wednesday, October 26 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Bizet as well as the NY premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Records From a Vanishing City.
Thursday, October 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12-$110
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Vicky Chow: Piano

Fjóla Evans

Fjóla Evans

Canadian pianist Vicky Chow premieres new solo piano works by Rome Prize winner composer Christopher Cerrone, Fjola Evans, David Brynjar Franzson, and Bang on a Can founders David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon.
Thursday, October 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Erika Dohi

Pianist Erika Dohi performs works by Anthony Davis, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Robert Honstein,and Toshi Ichiyanagi. Special guest Daniel Anastasio will join Erika for the four-hands piano work water hollows stone by Alex Weiser.
Thursday, October 27 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Mivos Quartet, Iktus Percussion and Quiet City

Iktus Percussion

Mivos Quartet performs Yvonne Wu’s Utterance, plus solo selections. Iktus Percussion performs works by composers Paul Pinto, Rick Burkhardt and Paula Matthusen. Quiet City closes out the concert, performing three works by guitarists from the Glenn Branca Ensemble as well as a solo cello piece by Pat Muchmore.
Friday, October 28 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Orchestra Underground: Contempo-Scary Music | American Composers Orchestra

Halloween comes early to Carnegie Hall. Things that go bump in the night have inspired composers for centuries, but American Composers Orchestra contemporizes the theme with mystifying, electrifying, and just plain scary music. Film soundtracks, including a suite from Bernard Herrmann’s music for Hitchcock’s Psycho, and works that might inspire frightening films in your own head make for a spooky evening.
Friday, October 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43 to $51
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Mrs. President | Victoria Bond

Victoria Bond

Victoria Bond

In 19th century America, women didn’t have the right to vote, much less run for president. But in 1872, Victoria Woodhull did just that, and, much more recently, has inspired an opera based on her life. In the opera Mrs. President, composer Victoria Bond and librettist Hilary Bell have crafted a drama of ambition and betrayal, which tells the story of Woodhull’s visionary struggle to defy history and become the first female President of the United States.
Friday, October 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
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This, Too, Must Be Heard | Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra

The concert features the US Premieres of forgotten music of 20/21st Century female composers Ethel Smyth, Doreen Carwithen, and Dobrinka Tabakova, highlighting the significant contributions female composers have made to the classical music cannon.
Friday, October 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $12 students/seniors/veterans
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY
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Canticles of the Holy Wind | John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams

Four choirs surround the audience in this new work by John Luther Adams, staged in The Met’s stunning Medieval Sculpture Hall.
Saturday, October 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets start at $65
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 305, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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permutations103016 | Alexandra Greffin-Klein & Anne Lanzilotti

Permutations brings together two soloists performing recent works from composers on both sides of the Atlantic in an evening of virtuosic string music. Paris-based violinist Alexandra Greffin Klein presents a rare NYC solo program of works by Carter, Felder, Saariaho, Hurel, and Canat de Chizy. New York City’s own Anne Lanzilotti presents works of young american composers – Shaw, Wollschleger, and Norman – as well as violist/composer Garth Knox.
Sunday, November 30 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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