Ceremony
Vocalist Charmaine Lee premieres Ceremony, a collaborative work developed with pianist and composer Conrad Tao. Using spatialization, live signal processing, and fixed media, the piece explores a variety of sonic environments — each a meditation on the visceral tactility of vocal and electronic sound. Ceremony is a celebration of hybridity, weaving together diverse influences from ASMR, drone, ambient, and the 80s power ballad. The evening will open with an improvised duo performance by Lee and Nate Wooley. The duo will explore eclectic aesthetic territory together, comfortably moving between rapid-fire free improvisation and the sober austerity of Japanese onkyo.
Monday, October 30 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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China NCPA Orchestra
China NCPA Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut in a program that features a work by Qigang Chen (music director of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing) along with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. In addition Haochen Zhang is the soloist in the Yellow River Concerto.
Monday, October 30 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$99
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Howling Winds
An evening of spooky music to make your Halloween more fun. Come have a glass of wine and enjoy compositions for flutes, clarinet and electronics by Elizabeth Brown, Blair Perry, Ammon Swinbank, and more. There will also be candy and treats to take home.
Tuesday, October 31 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts | Cluster Ensemble
Philip Glass
Slovakia’s Cluster Ensemble plays Philip Glass’s Music With Changing Parts for the first time in New York City in several decades. Cluster Ensemble’s unique take on the this work from Glass’s early minimalist phase utilizes live video made of digitized fragments of a dance performance.
Tuesday, November 31 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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American Modern Ensemble
American Modern Ensemble, with special guest Sybarite5, performs music by David Feurzeig, Pierce Gradone, Texu Kim, Robert Paterson, and Aaron Mencher.
Wednesday, November 1 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Ensemble Signal
Ensemble Signal
Ensemble Signal, led by conductor Brad Lubman, performs an all-Steve Reich program that includes the New York premiere of Runner, as well as Clapping Music—featuring special guest Steve Reich—Quartet, Pulse, and Double Sextet.
Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35-$45
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Music by the Glass: Bright Nights
Music by the Glass presents a concert featuring Cafe Music by Paul Schoenfield as well as music by Bizet and Dvorak.
Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $65-$75
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, 141 Prince Street, New York, NY
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Concert 1: Mortal Leadership, Divine Guidance | The Psalms Experience
For the opening concert, New York’s own Choir of Trinity Wall Street explores the delicate interplay of love and fear that has long defined our leaders—both mortal and divine—in the historic St. Paul’s Chapel.
Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, New York, NY
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Fresh Squeezed Opera Showcase
Paola Prestini
An evening presentation of 3-4 new vocal works—either stand-alone songs, or arias from a larger works—keeping the operatic genre alive and fresh. Featured composers include Marcus Maroney, Greg A. Steinke, Monica Pearce, Ingrid Stölzel, and Paola Prestini.
Thursday, November 2 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 online, $12 at door
the cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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Odyssey: A Youth Opera
From bloodthirsty monsters to enticing sirens, Odysseus faces down every obstacle imaginable as he sails home from war in this one-hour opera retelling Homer’s epic tale. First commissioned by The Glimmerglass Festival, this all-new production features visuals from The Met’s extensive collection of Greek art.
Friday, November 3 at 7:00 PM & Saturday, November 4 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM
Tickets $50-$65
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Spare Change | Glass Farm Ensemble
Paula Matthusen
The opening concert of Glass Farm Ensemble’s 2017–2018 season includes premieres by Anthony Di Bartolo and Yvonne Troxler as well as music by Paula Matthusen, Balz Trümpy, Michael Jarrells, and Steve Reich.
Friday, November 3 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Silver Apples of the Moon | Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (photo credit: timara.oberlin.edu)
American electronic music composer Morton Subotnick presents a rare concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking record Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic album ever to be commissioned by a classical record label.
Friday, November 3 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
NYU SKirball, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
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Autumn Salon
Featuring music by Peri Mauer, Ana Paola Santillan Allocer, Tom Blatt, Sunhee Cho, Jacob Elkin, Whitney George, Alona Epshtein, Jin Hee Han, Ann Warren, Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Stephanie Greig, and Robert Morton.
Saturday, November 4 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $15 (cash only)
http://concretetimbre.com/2017-autumn-salon.html
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Concert 3: Justice | The Psalms Experience
David Lang
The Psalms, which give voice to an ancient quest for justice, have inspired composers from the 12th century to the 21st. Here, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street performs settings by composers from medieval plainchant to Bruckner to a premiere by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang.
Saturday, November 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, New York, NY
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Two Artists, One Vision: Leila Josefowicz, violin & John Novacek, piano
Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek perform music by Sibelius, Prokofiev, B.A. Zimmermann, and John Adams’s Road Movies.
Saturday, November 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $45
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Premiere Works XXV
Music From China performs the 25th concert of its Premiere Works series presenting new music for Chinese and Western instruments. World and NY premieres of works by composers Mathew Rosenblum, Zhou Long, Wang Guowei, and winners of the 2017 Music From China International Composition Prize are featured. In an unique concert of 21st century music, all compositions are written for combinations of the Chinese instruments pipa (lute), erhu (2-string fiddle), zheng (zither), dizi (bamboo flute), with cello and percussion.
Saturday, November 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18, $16 members, $10 seniors/students/children
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Concertos & Stuff
Violinist Miranda Cuckson, bass trombonist David Taylor, cellist Borislav Strulev, pianist Steven Beck and the CompCord String Orchestra perform music by Dave Soldier, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Joseph Waters, Mark Kostabi, and David Tayloas well as works by Peter Jarvis, Melissa Grey, and Daniel Palkowski. The string orchestra will be conducted by Arkady Leytush.
Sunday, November 5 at 2:30 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Double Record Release Party
Empyrean Atlas – Photo by Katherine Helen Fisher
Empyrean Atlas celebrates the release of their new album, Poly Rush. Opening for Empyrean Atlas is ensemble et al, performing music from their new album, The Slow Reveal.
Sunday, November 5 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
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SoundStep presented by Not Art Records and Brooklyn Studios for Dance
SoundStep is a presentation of new collaborative works from 4 choreographer/composer pairings, presented by Not Art Records and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. The performance will be the culmination of four mini-residencies during which four composer-choreographer pairings created and work-shopped their new pieces.
Sunday, November 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Brooklyn Studios for Dance, 210 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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