Ensemble Connect
Ensemble Connect performs a free concert of Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano, Op. 40; Dvorák’s String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77; and Stephen Hartke’s The Horse with the Lavender Eye.
Tuesday, November 14 at 7:30 PM
Free
The Juilliard School, Paul Hall, 155 West 65th Street, New York, NY
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David First: The Western Enisphere
Hyper-minimalist microtonality and sensual phenomena take center stage as Western Enisphere presents the world premiere of new work for ensemble and electronics. Formed by David First and Jeanann Dara in April 2012, Western Enisphere seeks to develop a body of hyper-minimalist, audio-video just intonation and microtonal works steeped in First’s concepts of Gestural Improvisation, defined as a set of procedures that isolates musical elements and elevates them to the level of most significant extrapolative detail.
Tuesday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Divine Rose & more
Vocalist Celia Castro joins composer/pianist Max Lifchitz for an intimate recital featuring recent and erstwhile vocal and instrumental works by Lifchitz.
Tuesday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Free
St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Alyson Cambridge
William Bolcom and Joan Morris in performance – Photo by David Bazemore
The Crypt Sessions Season 2 concludes on November 15, 2017 with American Soprano Alyson Cambridge singing William Bolcom’s song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings. The eighteen imagined diary entries tell the life story of Thomas Jefferson’s slave-turned-mistress, grappling with issues of race, regret, respect and love that are as relevant today as they were back then.
Wednesday, November 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets: $75, including wine & food tasting
The Church of the Intercession Crypt, West 155th and Broadway, New York, NY
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Raz Mesinai: Sleepwalker 3
Roulette dives into dub with Raz Mesinai’s bass-heavy Sleepwalker 3, a piece for piano, violin, bass and electronics that combines dub, contemporary composition and sound system design. The evening’s performance will be the third iteration of the piece, with the first version having been performed nearly seven years ago.
Wednesday, November 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Five Borough Songbook, Vol II
Daniel Felsenfeld
The citywide tour of the Five Borough Songbook, Volume II comes to an end. The Songbook features twenty new solo works, duets, and ensemble pieces inspired by New York City places, themes, and poetry, commissioned by 5BMF as part of its tenth anniversary season.
Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Conrad Winslow: The Perfect Nothing Catalog Album Release Party
Conrad Winslow celebrates the release of his album The Perfect Nothing Catalog with performances by Cadillac Moon Ensemble, with audio processing by Aaron Roche.
Thursday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20-$25
Metropolis Ensemble, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Composer Portraits | Marcos Balter
International Contemporary Ensemble and a list of soloists perform composer Marcos Balter’s work, including two pieces composed for ICE.
Thursday, November 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Slide | Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey
Orchestra 2001 presents composer Steven Mackey’s Slide, a musical theater piece featuring acclaimed actor/singer Rinde Eckert in a production by Mark DeChiazza.
Friday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Open Source Music Festival
JACK Quartet–Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theatre
Taking place as all-day marathon event, this new festival is focused the idea of collaboration and connection between artists. Taking the concept of “open source” as its inspiration, the festival presents an impressive line-up of performers and ensembles from across the contemporary classical, jazz and electronic music worlds. In addition, Joel Fan will perform the world premiere of a new piano suite he commissioned for the occasion. Titled Couplets, this new world features contributions from 8 composers in 4 pairs, each a married couple, including Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, and Anthony Cheung and Wang Lu.
Saturday, November 18 at 12:00 PM
Tickets $40
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Tokyo to New York Composers/Performers at Tenri
Concert features five world premieres and three United States premieres by Tokyo- and NYC-based composers. The world premieres, written specifically for clarinetist/hichiriki player Thomas Piercy, are by composers Chen Yihan, Bin Li, Paul Morin, Miho Sasaki, and Michael Schelle; the United States premieres are by composers Chatori Shimizu, Hifumi Shimoyama, and Isaji Sunao.
Saturday, November 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $30, $15 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Dominique Lawalrée | Blank Forms
Blank Forms presents the music of Dominique Lawalrée, a Belgian composer and keyboard player, often associated with the New Simplicity movement, with over 500 compositions and 29 albums of hermetic, euphonic minimalism to his name.
Saturday, November 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members
San Damiano Mission, 85 North 15th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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ONE ART
Paula Kimper
Paula M. Kimper’s ONE ART, a collection of art songs telling the life story of poet Elizabeth Bishop, receives its U.S. premiere. Bishop’s poetry is transformed by opera composer Paula M. Kimper into art songs which, interwoven with Bishop’s letters and life story, create the framework for an intimate performance by soprano Laure Meloy.
Sunday, November 19 at 1:00 PM
Free
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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The Suite Sounds of Christmas | Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
The New York premiere of composer and conductor Mark Hayes’s International Carol Suites weaves together familiar and lesser-known Christmas carols in a multicultural celebration of the season. Maestro Jonathan Griffith conducts The Night Before Christmas, Gloria, and A Feast of Carols narrated by composer Randol Bass. Both acts feature the Distinguished Concerts Singers International and Distinguished Concerts Orchestra.
Sunday, November 19 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20-$100
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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