Sxip Shirey | FERUS Festival
For the third night of the FERUS Festival, Sxip Shirey presents three pieces built around death, disappearance, and returning home. The pieces will be accompanied by the unique dancer Coco Karol, who also does choreography for the show. The show also will feature the puppetry of three notable performers: Basil Twist, Erin Orr, and Chris Green.
Monday, January 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Music of Sir Karl Jenkins
DCINY honors UK composer Sir Karl Jenkins with an evening comprised of both new and lauded compositions by the honoree. The program includes Sing! The Music was Given, a new work commissioned for DCINY’s 10th Anniversary, and The Armed Man, which is presented with film.
Monday, January 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20-$100
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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IYOV | PROTOTYPE
IYOV, from the Ukranian team Vladyslav Troitskyi, Roman Gryhoriv and Illia Razumeiko, retells the Biblical story of Job in a synthesis of ancient Greek drama, baroque opera, oratorio, Requiem, and the techniques of postmodern theater. Featuring polyphonic choral episodes and a prepared piano, the piece accesses the full range of the human voice to illustrate the character’s search for life’s meaning.
Monday, January 15 to Tuesday, January 16 and Thursday, January 18 to Saturday, January 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30-$75
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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Anton Batagov + Attacca Quartet
This varied evening of music includes a World Premiere from post-minimalist Russian composer and pianist Anton Batagov, paired with a Beethoven masterwork performed by Attacca Quartet.
Tuesday, January 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street #501, New York, NY
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Black Inscription | PROTOTYPE
Black Inscription, from Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi and Jeremy Flower, is a multimedia song cycle that follows a deep sea diver on her Odyssean journey. Written with guidance from experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and brought to life by a seven-piece band fronted by three singers, the immersive world premiere is a symbolic, scientific, and emotional plunge into the ocean where wonder, discovery, and reckoning entwine.
Wednesday, January 17 to Saturday, January 20 at 9:30 PM & Saturday, January 20 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $30
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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THE FUTURE IS OPEN | PROTOTYPE
Tori Wrånes (Norway) will create a new piece in response to a New York public site through a ten-day New York residency period during which the artist will research and develop an original work. The piece will integrate the artist’s “Troll Technique”, an improvised, non-verbal language based on rhythm and temperament.
Thursday, January 18 at 5:30 PM
Free
Washington Square Park, Northwest Corner, New York, NY
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The Echo Drift | PROTOTYPE
The Echo Drift, an operatic collaboration between Mikael Karlsson, Elle Kunnos de Voss, and Kathryn Walat, centers on a convicted murderer trapped in a timeless prison. This world premiere production switches between the confines of a tiny cell and an expansive visual world of hand drawn animation, exploring the psychology of a woman struggling to overcome her nature and the freewheeling tendencies of the mind when robbed of external stimuli.
Thursday, January 18 to Saturday, January 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30-$75
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Glass + Schubert
Simone Dinnerstein – Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Simone Dinnerstein returns to Miller Theatre after her Bach concerts this fall with a second concert featuring the music of Philip Glass in his 80th birthday year. This time Simone pairs Glass with Schubert, a composer he not only shares a birthday with—but also a harmonic and spiritual connection.
Thursday, January 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35-$55
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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THE FUTURE IS OPEN | PROTOTYPE
Tori Wrånes (Norway) will create a new piece in response to a New York public site through a ten-day New York residency period during which the artist will research and develop an original work. The piece will integrate the artist’s “Troll Technique”, an improvised, non-verbal language based on rhythm and temperament.
Friday, January 19 at 5:30 PM
Free
Washington Square Park, Northwest Corner, New York, NY
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Iceland in New York at the Scandinavia House
loadbang
Partnering with TAK Ensemble and the Scandinavia House, loadbang and TAK will be giving the NYC premieres of works by the members of the Errata Collective. Errata is an artist collective consisting of the composers Bára Gísladóttir, Finnur Karlsson, Halldór Smárason, Haukur Þór Harðarson and Petter Ekman.
Friday, January 19 & Sunday, January 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Evil Nigger: A Five-Part Performance for Julius Eastman by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and LaMont Hamilton
Julius Eastman
Artist, designer, and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste completes his ISSUE residency in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist LaMont Hamilton January 19th – 20th, 2018 at The Kitchen. The performance features the duo sequentially performing all five of their previously staged “parts” of Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition Evil Nigger as a 24 hour interpretive cycle. The work runs continuously from Friday to Saturday, with five publicly accessible segments opening in parts throughout the 24 hours.
Friday, January 19 & Saturday, January 20 at various times
$10 suggested donation
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Piano+ #3
Teodora Stepancic and Lucie Vítková perform works by Pauline Oliveros, Elizabeth Adams, Muyassar Kurdi, Michael Vincent Waller, Coleman Zurkowski, and Teodora Stepancic.
Friday, January 19 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Antecedents | Riverside Symphony
Music Director George Rothman will lead the orchestra through a sequence of works that traces the transition from the Baroque through the Classical by way of a contemporary work in a programmatic sleight-of-hand that also aims to demonstrate the former period’s enduring relevance.
Saturday, January 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $34-$65
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
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It Can’t Happen Here
Kathleen Supové
It Cant Happen Here: art in response to oppression is a chamber music program consisting of six pieces by five composers that have each been inspired by events that have challenged freedom of thought, expression, and religion. The program includes a response project partnering with Artistic Noise.
Saturday, January 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Anathemas
Concrete Timbre presents a program called Anathemas, featuring short compositions inspired by 7 banned words: diversity, entitlement, evidence-based, fetus, science-based, transgender, and vulnerable. Featured composers include Marie Incontrera, Peri Mauer, Ann Warren, Jin Hee Han, Tom Blatt, Robert Morton, Ana Paola Santillan Alcocer, Rodrigo S. Batalha, Donald Cuba, Jacob Elkin, Hector Oltra Garcia, Jesse Glass, Tim Goplerud, Stephanie Greig, Josh Oxford, Johari Mayfield, Ven Spatz, and Cullyn Murphy.
Sunday, January 21 at 2:30 PM
$10 suggested donation
Olli Studio Gallery, 336 West 37 Street, New York, NY
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The King’s Singers in Concert: Celebrating 50 Years
In 2018, theKing’s Singers looks back over the last 50 years with a celebratory world tour, including a stop at the spectacular Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, presented by Sacred Music in a Sacred Space.
Sunday, December 21 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $35-$90
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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