Midori Takada
The Kitchen presents a live performance by percussionist, composer, and theater artist Midori Takada.
Monday, May 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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The Dinner Party Operas
The Dinner Party Operas is a showcase of eleven original mini-operas inspired by Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party, a multi-media work housed in the Brooklyn Museum. Six of the operas will be performed on at NYU Tisch’s GMTWP Black Box Theatre. The remaining five operas will be performed at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum. Each under 15-minutes long, the operas were written and composed by students in the NYU Tisch GMTWP Opera Lab and will be performed by professional opera singers with piano accompaniment.
Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 PM
Free
GMTWP Black Box Theatre, NYU Tisch, 715 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Backwards from Winter
Backwards from Winter is an hour long operatic monodrama exploring a single woman’s reflection on a love relationship as seen through various elemental filters of seasons, color, nature, emotion and memory and told through live voice, live electronic/computer music and multiple video streams.
Friday, May 25 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35, $28 members/students/seniors
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Shared Space – composer.performer
Liisa Hirsch
Shared Space series continues with an all world-premiere concert by female composers/performers. The idea behind this event is generous sharing of space and time. The works will be conceived to be open and permeable, allowing one piece to be played at the same time as another. The performers will be scattered through the space, and performances of different works will overlap partially or entirely, some being stretched throughout the concert, some repeating, opening possibilities for unexpected musical moments to happen. Music by Germaine Sijstermans, Maya Felixbrodt, Lucie Vítková, Jasna Veličković, Laura Cetilia, Cindy Giron, and Liisa Hirsch.
Saturday, May 26 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Dinner Party Operas
The Dinner Party Operas is a showcase of eleven original mini-operas inspired by Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party, a multi-media work housed in the Brooklyn Museum. Six of the operas will be performed on at NYU Tisch’s GMTWP Black Box Theatre. The remaining five operas will be performed at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum. Each under 15-minutes long, the operas were written and composed by students in the NYU Tisch GMTWP Opera Lab and will be performed by professional opera singers with piano accompaniment.
Sunday, May 27 at 2:00 PM
Included with museum admission
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
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ICE presents: The Music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
International Contemporary Ensemble presents a program of works by composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir highlighting her unorthodox use of the piano. ICE pianist Cory Smythe, a champion and commissioner of Anna’s solo music, is in the center of National Sawdust’s stage, circled by the audience, with the audience encircled by ICE musicians, immersed in the music. Conductor Steven Schick, a longtime ICE collaborator, leads the ensemble. This performance is part of ICE’s year-long participation as a National Sawdust 2017-18 Artists-in-Residence.
Sunday, May 27 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Thea Musgrave: A 90th Birthday Concert
Thea Musgrave–Photo by Bryan Sheffield
For her birthday concert, Musgrave will be joined by Dr. Harold Rosenbaum and The New York Virtuoso Singers for an evening of choral music, solo music, and excerpts from Musgrave’s grand operas. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of Musgrave’s oratorio for chorus, organ and brass quintet, The Voices of Our Ancestors, performed by The New York Virtuoso Singers and the American Brass Quintet. The piece sets the creation hymn from the Rig Veda, an ancient Sanskrit verse dating in its written form from 1500-1200 BC, and eleven other poems translated from almost as many languages, in an extended meditation on the nature of existence.
Sunday, May 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$50
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street, New York, NY,
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