This week: concerts in New York (November 7 – November 13, 2016)

We Remember

The Dessoff Choir season opens with Mozart’s Requiem along with Steven Stucky’s Take Him, Earth, and Whispers and the premiere of David Hurd’s newly orchestrated work In Honor of Martin. We Remember reflects on the lives of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a program of choral music written in their honor and dedicated to their memory.
Monday, November 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $45-$75
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway New York, NY
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TRUMP – A Theatrical Concerto by Gene Pritsker

On election day, Composers Concordance presents a new Theatrical Concerto by Gene Pritsker, written for violinist Philippe Quint, that explores the insanity which has creeped into our political system, causing the most unprecedented election in US history. The solo violinist in this theatrical concerto plays the part of the Devil, who is responsible for all of Trump’s bizarre outbursts. The composition is a new genre that brings traditional violin concerto into the realm of theater.
Tuesday, November 8 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Elective Affinities | Orchard Circle

This concert features players from the Berlin Philharmonic who will explore what has lately been dubbed ‘Weimar America.’ The program includes music by sixteen American composers, including Ned Rorem, John Harbison, John Corigliano, Fred Lerdahl, Phillip Glass, Milton Babbitt, Laura Schwendinger, Eric Moe, Augusta Read Thomas, Virgil Thompson, Roger Sessions, Daniel Brewbaker, Charles Wourinen, Lowell Liebermann, Sebastian Currier, and Nathan Currier.
Tuesday, November 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $27-$117
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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No Greater Love Than This | Cantus

In honor of Veterans Day, the vocal ensemble Cantus presents a meditation on war that stretches far beyond the battlefield. No Greater Love Than This is a collection of works depicting the world as seen through the eyes of the soldier: loss and longing, brotherhood and bravery, camaraderie and common ground. The work includes repertoire by Lee Hoiby, Melissa Dunphy, William Billings, John Lennon, Christine Donkin, a new commission by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal, and rarely performed songs for men’s voices by Dvóřak and Janáček.
Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $50
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Restless Album Release | Ken Thomson

Composer and Bang on a Can All-Stars member Ken Thomson releases his next album, Restless, on October 28, 2016. Restless includes Thomson’s Restless (2013-2014) and Me Vs. (2012), performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars cellist Ashley Bathgate and Brooklyn-based pianist Karl Larson. Bathgate and Larson will perform Restless to celebrate the release.
Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15-$25
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Zeena Parkins and Green Dome

Avant-harpist Zeena Parkins performs The Captiva Pieces, a solo set of new works for acoustic harp developed for In Tow, a collaborative project with choreographer Jennifer Monson, and created at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, Florida. The performance will be followed by Zeena’s band Green Dome (members Ryan Ross Smith and Ryan Sawyer), who will be performing movements from LACE, an ongoing project that uses pieces of lace and knitting patterns as scores.
Wednesday, November 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Black Lives Matter | Ensemble Pi

Ensemble Pi will present a concert of commissions and new works in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The evening features works by Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Jessie Montgomery, Trevor Weston, Alvin Singleton, Valerie Coleman, and Courtney Bryan.
Thursday, November 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Bang on a Can: Performance by Pauline Oliveros

Accompanying the Jewish Museum’s exhibition, Take Me (I’m Yours), the concert will feature Pauline Oliveros in The Sound of Meditation on V-Accordion, an instrument that produces both accordion and orchestral sounds. Like the exhibition, the concert also blurs the boundary between the performer and the audience by asking the listener to participate in the making of music.
Thursday, November 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $18, $15 students/seniors, $12 members
The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Recounting | Tim Munro

Flutist Tim Munro makes his New York solo debut, combining music, storytelling, and song with dreamy lighting and a bevy of new works. The composers featured run the gamut stylistically, from post-punk guitarist to literature buff to Pulitzer Prize finalist. Through their works, Munro explores the time between sleep and waking, that fertile moment when we remember and tell our tales, before drifting off to dreaming.
Thursday, November 10 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Strange Attractors | OpenICE

This concert, curated by ICE violinist Josh Modney, features music by Georges Aperghis, Natacha Diels, Evan Johnson, Andrew Greenwald, Guillaume Dufay, and Mathias Spahlinger.
Thursday, November 10 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods

Interpolating the music of postminimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda with Gagaku (traditional Japanese imperial court music), this program is conceived and led by Ko Ishikawa — master of the sho, a bamboo mouth organ used by Japanese musicians for over a millennium — in collaboration with Fujieda
Friday, November 11 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY
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Morton Feldman | Calder Quartet

The Calder Quartet presents Morton Feldman’s epic, five-hour-long String Quartet No. 2.
Saturday, November 12 at 11:30 AM
Free with museum admission
The Met Cloisters, The Fuentidueña Chapel, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY
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Tokyo to New York

This concert features six pieces composed for clarinetist and hichiriki player Thomas Piercy: world premiers by Tokyo-based composers Mayuko Kawasaki and Shoichiro Tanaka, and Chinese composer Bin Li (based in NYC); and United States premiers by Tokyo-based composers Kanokpak Changwitchukarn, Tomo Hirayama, and Ippo Tsuboi. Other music performed will be by NYC-based composers Matt Aucoin, Guy Barash, Reiko Futing, and Gilbert Galindo. Piercy will be joined by pianist Taka Kigawa and traditional Japanese instrument players Hiroshi Ebina (hichiriki) and Lish Lindsey (ryuteki).
Saturday, November 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Dancing in the Underworld | OpenICE

This concert features music by Monte Weber, Camilla Agosto, Clara Iannotta, Katherine Young, and Matthias Kaul.
Saturday, November 12 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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