Michael Riesman and Ensemble Signal Celebrate Philip Glass | Pop-Up Concerts
Joined by Doug Perkins and Lauren Radnofsky of Ensemble Signal, Michael Riesman takes to the Miller stage for a program surveying Glass’s legendary opera and film music.
Monday, May 15 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Radicals in Miniature | Ain Gordon with Josh Quillen
Josh Quillen on steel drums
Radicals in Miniature is a series of textual-sonic odes to personal icons of 20th century “alternative” culture that lost their toehold on immortality and (in the pre-Internet era) their place in public memory. Radicals is performed by 3-time Obie Award winner Ain Gordon and So Percussion’s Josh Quillen.
Tuesday, May 16 to Saturday, May 20 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, May 21 at 2 PM
Tickets $20
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 West 37th Street, Suite 501, New York, NY
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For this from that will be filled | Clarice Jensen and Jonathan Turner
This first-time collaboration between cellist Clarice Jensen and artist Jonathan Turner presents three world-premiere compositions and explores the variable differences between acoustic and electronic sound, and between simulation and the unconscious, through repetition and layering.
Wednesday, May 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Concerts at One: Sunken Cathedral
Jessica Meyer– Photo by Ana Pinto
The contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Church, NOVUS NY, conducted by Julian Wachner, premieres Jessica Meyer’s Through which we flow as part of the church’s “Sunken Cathedral” series. The series features diverse arrangements of Debussy’s classic and haunting prelude La Cathédrale engloutie, alongside a variety of newer compositions focusing on climate change and water. The program also features John Luther Adams’s Pulitzer and Grammy-winning Become Ocean and Luna Pearl Woolf’s After the Wave.
Thursday, May 18 at 1:00 PM
Free
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street, New York, NY
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Terry and Gyan Riley
Terry Riley and Gyan Riley come to National Sawdust for a special performance. Longtime music collaborators, this father-son duo of pianist + classical guitarist draws influences from their studies and experiences around the world.
Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Day 1 | Look + Listen Festival
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Helping to usher in the festival’s Opening Night at Pratt Manhattan Gallery is Ione from the Deep Listening Institute who will lead Pauline Oliveros’ The Heart Chant. Hosted by Bill McGlaughlin, the evening’s program features violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson, septet ensemble yMusic performing selections from their latest album, First, composed by Son Lux; and tenor sax quartet Battle Trance is performing an excerpt from Blade of Love.
Thursday, May 18 at 8:00 PM
Free
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY
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Day 2 | Look + Listen Festival
Yarn|Wire–Photo by Ed Lefkowicz
Day 2 of the festival at BRIC is hosted by Lara Pellegrinelli and features So Percussion performing the New York premiere of Paul Lansky’s Springs, as well as Michael Gordon’s Timber, joined by Yarn/Wire percussionists. Yarn/Wire then takes the stage to perform Žibuoklė Martinaityte’s Look + Listen commission, Unique forms of continuity in space. Jen Shyu presents excerpts from her newest solo work, Nine and Look + Listen’s Composer’s Competition winner, Nina C. Young’s Spero Lucern, will be performed by Ensemble Échappé.
Friday, May 19 at 8:00 PM
Free
BRIC, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Revolution x3
A concert featuring Sexmob, Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, and the premiere of Beats Per Revolution by Martha Mooke and Rahzel. Featuring a performance of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and an all-star ensemble.
Friday, May 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35-$65
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices, and NOVUS NY join forces to perform Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5.
Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20 at 8:00 PM
Free
Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, New York, NY
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Aeriality | Anna Thorvaldsdottir
The New York Philharmonic premieres Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Aeriality on a concert that also includes the New York premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Wing on Wing featuring sopranos Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi and Brahms’s Violin Concerto performed by Leonidas Kavakos.
Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $19-$104
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
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Mariel Roberts: Cartography, works for solo cello+
Cellist Mariel Roberts explores the outer limits of her instrument as she celebrates the release of her second solo album, Cartography, out May 19 on New Focus Recordings. The program features music by Davi∂ Brynjar Franzson, Cenk Ergün, George Lewis, and Eric Wubbels (who guests on piano).
Friday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Il Tramonto: Music of Respighi, Takemitsu, Mahler, Ives + Lash
Hannah Lash
Guest soloists Sarah Heltzel (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Gregory (flute), and Melanie Genin (harp) join the String Orchestra of Brooklyn to perform works by Hannah Lash, Respighi, Ives, Takemitsu, and Mahler.
Saturday, May 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $16, $11 students/seniors
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Day 3 | Look + Listen Festival
The festival concludes with a program curated and hosted by Terrance McKnight, in partnership with The Studio Museum in Harlem. L+L is delighted to have Craig Harris and The Saints and Aint’s Brass Choir performing selections, along with Carman Moore’s Skymusic Ensemble performing several of his own works, including the gospel themed Think In An New Way.
Sunday, May 21 at 3:00 PM
Free
The Studio Museum, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY
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