This week: concerts in New York (February 11, 2019 – February 17, 2019)

Hidden Figures

Vocalist and WQXR host Helga Davis and composers Courtney Bryan and Shelley Washington join Face the Music at National Sawdust for a program inspired by the 2016 film Hidden Figures. The program includes Bryan’s Yet Unheard, inspired by the tragic death of Sandra Bland, plus Washington’s A Kind of Lung and music by Mazz Swift.
Monday, February 11 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Cutting Edge Concerts

The 2019 Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will open on February 11th with Steven Burke’s Dream Forms, performed by the di.vis.ion trio which premiered and recorded the work. Dream Forms is comprised of three episodes and was initially inspired by different types of dreams, including precognitive (clairvoyant), lucid, and epic.
Monday, February 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $30 day of show
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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PREformances with Allison Charney

The concert features a movement from Kim D. Sherman’s new song cycle for soprano, violin, and piano, The Clara Cycle. The complete cycle will receive its premiere as part of the new series Her/Music; Her/Story launching at Steinway Hall in March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Also on the program is Carter Brey performing his piece for solo cello, Tango para Ilaria.
Monday, February 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Mivos Quartet & Nadav Lev

String quartet and guitar aren’t a common combination, but the unique pairing is at the core of this Pop-Up featuring the Mivos Quartet and guitarist Nadav Lev. Two works for this amalgamation bookend the program, including two New York premieres and a piece for solo guitar by Tristan Murail.
Tuesday, February 12 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Roulette’s Archive Launch + Artist Celebration

Roulette pays tribute to their past, present, and future with the launch of the Roulette Archive. Celebrating the thousands of artists who have performed at Roulette over the last 40 years, the evening will also honor future artists to be added to this historic platform with recognition of Roulette’s 2019 commissions, residencies, and fellowship artists.
Tuesday, February 12 at 7:00 PM
Free
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Tenth Intervention – Colectivo: Music from Cuba and New York

In their Music of the Americas debut, Colectivo: Music from Cuba and New York, Tenth Intervention will present a chamber music program consisting of pieces by living composers who reside in Cuba and New York City. Featuring solo and ensemble works by Zosha Di Castri, Paul Pinto, Keyla Orozco, Kamala Sankaram, Marcos Balter, and more.
Tuesday, February 12 at 7:00 PM
Free
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Robert: Seriously Amused | Robert Dick with Rinde Eckert

Robert: Seriously Amused will be flutist/composer Robert Dick‘s first foray into the world of performance art. Developed with director and co-writer Rinde Eckert, Seriously Amused is part biographical, part philosophical, and more than a bit strange and weird. Along with flute playing, Dick will be singing, moving, thinking, monologuing, and giving his inner voices free play.
Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Robert Ashley: Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

This newly reconstructed opera by the late Robert Ashley (written in 1985 and first performed in 1991) follows the adventures of its protagonist Linda, whose travels and romances can be read as attempts at assimilation and cultural cross-pollination, with varying degrees of success and rejection. The metaphor stretches in time from 1492—the beginning of a European consciousness of America and the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain—to the late 1940s on the West Coast (representing the future of the USA). Densely layered streams of text, lush live vocals, and a minutely structured electronic orchestra combine to present Ashley’s portrait of the American psyche.
Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, February 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Ecstatic Music Festival: Deerhoof & Tigue

Deerhoof perform their 2007 album, Friend Opportunity, with new percussion additions by Tigue, and Tigue will write a new piece for the two bands together, plus more TBA.
Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation

Featured on the program are Jürg Frey’s Colours of Silence, for two Casio keyboards and percussion and Michael Pisaro’s Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, for three musicians playing piano, sine tones, percussion, radios, tapes, and various other sound sources.
Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10-$15
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Island of Peoples

ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX premieres Gabriele Vanoni’s multimedia electro-acoustic chamber opera, Island of Peoples, based on the stories of immigrants passing through Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, with material drawn from interviews from the Ellis Island Oral Histories project. The performance will be highlighted with video art by Malo Lacroix and with soprano Mary Mackenzie and tenor Jonas Budris bringing to life the emotional journeys of the immigrants.
Saturday, February 16 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $10
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York, NY
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NowNet Arts Festival

NowNet Arts Festival is an annual event featuring premieres of contemporary network arts works by multiple artists for the NowNet Arts Ensemble and collaborating groups. The works are performed live via the internet by artists in different geographic locations.
Sunday, February 17 at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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