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This week: concerts in New York (October 31 – November 6, 2016)

Tania Leon - Photo credit Stephanie Berger

Tania Leon - Photo credit Stephanie Berger

BAC Salon: Dialogues

In an evening of performance and conversation, Margaret Brouwer, Esperanza Spalding, and Du Yun share their music and discuss their creative process as part of a series designed to showcase the diversity of living composers, and create a forum for meaningful exchange among composers, performers, and audiences, moderated by Tania León.
Tuesday, November 1 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Gabriela Lena Frank & Friends | NYFOS Next

Gabriela Lena Frank at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (photo: Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

A native Californian of mixed Peruvian, Chinese, Lithuanian, and Jewish descent, Frank explores her multicultural heritage ardently through her compositions. Her pieces refract her studies of Latin American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework uniquely her own. The program will include music by Derek Bermel and Avner Dorman, as well as the premieres of several new arrangements by Frank. Featuring soprano Amy Owens, tenor Joshua Blue, baritone Andrew Garland and the Momenta Quartet.
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Young Jewish American Composers

Lainie Fefferman

The concert features new classical works by young and emerging Jewish American composers: Lainie Fefferman, David Hertzberg, Julie Hill, Adam Roberts, Alyssa Weinberg, and Alex Weiser, performed by violin and viola duo andPlay, Brigid Coleridge, Julie Hill, Lee Dionne, Pat Swoboda, and Meaghan Burke. The concert will also feature conversations with the composers exploring the question of how Jewish history and identity informs the creation of new works of art.
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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BAC Salon: Carolina Eyck + ACME

Thereminist Carolina Eyck and The American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) perform Eyck’s minimalist Fantasias for string quartet and theremin. Also on the program is Bryce Dessner’s Little Blue Something for string quartet.
Friday, November 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, #501, New York, NY
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CreArt Music Series: Todd Reynolds, Luke DuBois & CreArtBox

Violinist Todd Reynolds (photo credit: about.me/toddreynolds)

Multimedia music group CreArtBox presents the second edition of the CreArt Music Series with two guests: violinist and composer Todd Reynolds and video artist Luke Dubois.
Friday, November 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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