This week: concerts in New York (January 7, 2019 – January 13, 2019)

PROTOTYPE: Out of Bounds | PROTOTYPE Festival

PROTOTYPE presents its third iteration of Out of Bounds, a platform for new vocal performance pieces taking place in unlikely locations throughout New York. Through the works, public sites will become temporary spaces of contact, exchange, and refreshed social dynamics. Out of Bounds 2019 will feature Partita for 8 Voices, where composer Caroline Shaw’s defining work meets the vast illuminated canyon of Times Square for its first ever publicly staged performance.
Monday, January 7 at 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Free
Times Square, Broadway between 43rd Street and 44th Street, New York, NY
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Caleb Teicher & Co. with Conrad Tao: More Forever

Caleb Teicher and Conrad Tao collaborate in More Forever, a new evening-length work commissioned by Works & Process. On a stage covered by a thin layer of sand, dancers explore American dance traditions such as vernacular jazz, tap, and Lindy Hop, set to Tao’s new contemporary score for piano and electronics.
Monday, January 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $45, $40 members
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Dreams & Prayers: David Krakauer, Kathleen Tagg, Omer Quartet

This iteration of Music Mondays features David Krakauer, Kathleen Tagg, and Omer Quartet.
Monday, January 7 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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wild Up, Zola Jesus & William Brittelle | Ecstatic Music Festival

The singer-songwriter Nika Danilova shares the bill with William Brittelle, and both will collaborate with the Los Angeles-based ensemble wild Up.
Monday, January 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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prism | PROTOTYPE Festival

Locked away in a sterile room, a sickly child, Bibi, and her doting mother, Lumee, are each other’s sole protectors from the unknown. When a mysterious illness lurking outside their door leaves Bibi unable to walk, her youthful curiosity begins to simmer and a seductive external existence can no longer be ignored. Written by Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins.
Monday, January 7 at 7:30 PM & Wednesday, January 9 to Saturday, January 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10-$75, $25 with PROTO Pack, $60 with Premium PROTO Pack
La MaMa, Ellen Strwart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street, New York, NY
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ThisTree | PROTOTYPE Festival

Dappled late-afternoon light bathes a clearing in the hand-crafted forest. Cellist/singer Leah Coloff emerges, trailing a 25-foot cape of tattered denim. Tracing the secrets of her family history, Coloff glides between idyllic childhood memories, unanswered questions and her roller coaster ride of fertility treatments. ThisTree weaves autobiographical storytelling, 8 mm home movies, and Coloff’s blend of blues, rock and non- traditional cello playing, supported by an all-female band, to investigate the vantage point of being the last branch on the family tree.
Monday, January 7 to Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 PM & Thursday, January 10 to Saturday, January 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30-$75, $25 with PROTO Pack, $60 with Premium PROTO Pack
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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The Infinite Hotel | PROTOTYPE Festival

The Infinite Hotel invites live audiences to become ‘extras’ and step inside an elaborate movie-making machine, producing a one-take feature film together every night. The film’s narrative follows five strangers unknowingly writing music together across space and time, and questions the nature of human interrelatedness, our appetite for visibility, and the creative ideas we accidentally share.
Monday, January 7 to Friday, January 11 at 7:30 PM & Saturday, January 12 at 5:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Tickets $30-$75, $25 with PROTO Pack, $60 with Premium PROTO Pack
Irondale, 85 South Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY
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Pancho Villa From A Safe Distance | PROTOTYPE Festival

Pancho Villa From A Safe Distance is a bilingual cross-border opera about the enigmatic general, legendary bandit, and hero of the Mexican Revolution. Through a non-linear collage of scenes from or inspired by the life of the complex, contradictory, and controversial leader, the piece provides a timely lens into the relationships and overlaps between the communities of Mexico, the United States, and the borderlands.
Monday, January 7 to Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30-$75, $25 with PROTO Pack, $70 with Premium PROTO Pack
BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
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ACME, Carolina Eyck, Clarice Jensen

German-born composer, vocalist, and internationally renowned theremin virtuosa Carolina Eyck; multi-faceted cellist Clarice Jensen; and the dynamic American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) join forces for a performance at DROM, each performing an engaging 30-minute set.
Monday, January 7 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $10
DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York, NY
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Train With No Midnight | PROTOTYPE Festival

Singer and writer Joseph Keckler and an intimate musical ensemble lead the audience through a series of vignettes, each like a stop on a late-night train—from Paris to Hamburg, Michigan to Times Square and the symbolic space of The Crossroads, a place of danger and possibility.
Monday, January 7 to Tuesday, January 8 at 9:30 PM & Thursday, January 10 to Saturday, January 12 at 9:30 PM & Sunday, January 13 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $30–$75, $25 with PROTO pack, $60 with Premium PROTO pack
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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of time and place | PROTOTYPE Festival

Trinity premieres two commissions by leading composers Ellen Reid and David T. Little. Their works explore what has been lost for the sake of progress within the vernacular of specific times and places. Ellen Reid’s dreams of the new world (libretto by Sarah LaBrie) portrays little-known, interview-based stories about the pursuit of the American dream in Memphis (1890), Houston (1970), and Los Angeles (2018). Am I Born by David T. Little with libretto by Royce Vavrek explores lost histories, altered places, and the spiritual bleed at the intersection of modernity and antiquity. Works are performed by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY with Julian Wachner conducting.
Tuesday, January 8 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $30, $25 with PROTO pack
St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, New York, NY
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4.48 Psychosis | PROTOTYPE Festival

Composed of 24 fragmented episodes, Sarah Kane’s final play details the experience of clinical depression and reveals an individual’s struggle to come to terms with their own psychosis. Philip Venables’s operatic adaptation, directed by Ted Huffman and conducted by Richard Baker, explores the search for love and happiness and the struggle for identity through a fusion of opera and spoken text.
Tuesday, January 8 to Wednesday, January 9 at 8:00 PM & Friday, January 11 to Saturday, January 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30-$75, $25 with PROTO Pack, $60 with PREMIUM Proto Pack
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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The Little Death: Vol. 1 | PROTOTYPE Festival

In May 2018 the contemporary music community of New York City lost one of its shining stars and most beloved members, composer Matt Marks. In 2017, PROTOTYPE premiered Matt’s opera (with librettist and director Paul Peers), Mata Hari, to great success. As we all wrestle with this seismic loss, PROTOTYPE pays tribute to Matt by showcasing his first music-theatre composition, The Little Death: Vol. 1, in which he performed the male lead originally
Tuesday, January 8 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $30, $25 with PROTO pack
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Tick Tock | Composers Concordance

Composers Concordance will present a concert program taking Time itself as its theme. Tick Tock will feature an array of compositional approaches to this universal concept and various ways in which composers write music to reflect the passage of time. Song settings of poetry by William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens will be heard, as well as several chamber music premieres.
Wednesday, January 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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Mila, Great Sorcerer | PROTOTYPE Festival

Folk hero, singer, and spiritual teacher, Milarepa has been venerated for one thousand years. But as a child, directed by his mother, he wields black magic against the aunt and uncle that stole his inheritance, and destroys his entire village. His remorse sends him on a life journey from mass murder to enlightenment. Set to lush orchestration melding Eastern and Western sounds, his transformation and redemption into the most revered teacher of Tibetan Buddhism offer hope and spiritual wayfinding to all who regret acts of consequence and seek higher ground.
Saturday, January 12 to Sunday, January 13 at 1:00 PM
Tickets $30, $25 with PROTO pack, $60 with Premium PROTO pack
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY
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Stinney: An American Execution | PROTOTYPE Festival

An involuntary symbol of sickening injustice, George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed at the age of 14. Having been wrongly accused and convicted of the rape and murder of two white girls in Alcolu, SC, in 1944, George became the youngest person legally executed in 20th-century America. Stinney tells the story of George, his family, his community, and the jury of ten white men that sent an innocent black boy to the electric chair. A new opera with roots in both gospel and electronic techniques, Stinney: An American Execution spotlights the anger and agony of the entire populous of Alcolu, connecting the dots to our own socio-political climate in 2019 and the pervasive “fear of the other.”
Saturday, January 12 at 5:00 PM & Sunday, January 13 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $30, $25 with PROTO pack, $60 with Premium PROTO pack
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Orpheus presents the Homeward Sound of Mozart and Dvořák, featuring works that reflect the composer’s lives in Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes performs Mozart, and James Matheson presents a new work commissioned by Orpheus.
Saturday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $12.50 to $117
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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New Year’s Celebration

North/South Chamber Orchestra performs four compositions by composers from the US and Venezuela. Featured will be music by Christopher James, Max Lifchitz, Alex Rodriguez, and John Winsor.
Sunday, January 13 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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