This week: live streamed concerts (August 10, 2020 – August 16, 2020)

on August 10, 2020 at 6:00 am

Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival 2020

Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival is a summer program devoted to performance excellence and career development. This year’s virtual edition of the festival explores the core tenets of chamber music in these socially distant times. Join Monica Ellis, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Jeff Scott, Mark Dover, and Brandon George for 3 days of masterclasses, workshops, and seminars. Musicians of all skill levels and ages are welcome. Music lovers are also welcome!
Monday, August 10 to Wednesday, August 12 at various times
Three-day pass $50; one-day pass $25
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Malcolm Jason Low and Jodi Melnick | Works & Process

Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Monday, August 10 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Tuesday, August 11 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Robert Wilson | Digital Discovery Festival

John Cage, Paris 1981 – Photograph by Marion Kalter

Join National Sawdust for a Digital Discovery Festival special event with the playwright and stage director Robert Wilson. For over fifty years, Wilson has been on the vanguard of experimental stagework, building an awe-inspiring curriculum vitae that includes landmark artistic collaborations with Philip Glass, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg and Tom Waits. For this very special event, scheduled on the 18th anniversary of the passing of John Cage, Wilson will present an appreciation of the revolutionary composer with a solo performance of his famed “Lecture on Nothing.”
Wednesday, August 12 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Thursday, August 13 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Matthew Whitaker | Digital Discovery Festival

Join National Sawdust for a Digital Discovery concert with pianist, percussionist, and composer Matthew Whitaker.
Thursday, August 13 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Trimpin | Digital Discovery Festival

Join National Sawdust for a Masterclass conversation-performance hosted by vocalist Helga Davis and composer and National Sawdust co-founder Paola Prestini, who will be joined by the interdisciplinary sculptor, inventor, and experimental composer Trimpin. He will join Helga and Paola from his new home studio for a Masterclass performance and conversation on the nature and aims of innovation.
Friday, August 14 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Bang on a Can Marathon

Wu Man (photo: ⓒ Stephen Kahn)

Bang on a Can returns with a third six-hour marathon of live streamed music. The day starts with Wu Man and ends with György Ligeti’s etude The Devil’s Staircase, performed by Jeremy Denk. Don’t miss a rare solo performance by jazz legend Oliver Lake, 11 world premieres commissioned especially for the day, and much more.
Sunday, August 16 at 3:00 PM
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Wynton Guess & Aaron Diehl, piano| Connecting ACO Community Volume III

In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on composers and performers, American Composers Orchestra announces Connecting ACO Community, a new initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer will receive $500 to write the work, and each performer will receive $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With this project, ACO aims to support artists who need financial assistance; to create new work that will live beyond this crisis; and provide virtual, interactive performances to ACO’s supporters and the general public. This event will include the world premiere of Wynton Guess’s new work for pianist Aaron Diehl and an exclusive Q&A with the composer and performer, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Sunday, August 16 at 5:00 PM
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Adrian Danchig-Waring, Joseph Gordon and HIPS | Works & Process

Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Sunday, August 16 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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