Cairns (in person event)
Cairns is a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery that leads the listener on a solitary poetic journey. Written and narrated by Gelsey Bell with music by Bell and composer Joseph White, Cairns is being created for the social-distancing New Yorker to meditate on the land we inhabit, sink into an arboreal temporality, and unearth the stories of a few historic trailblazers.
Ongoing
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Gabrielle Lamb | 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 3 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 4 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Michael Mwenso & Vuyo Sotashe | Digital Discovery Festival
Join National Sawdust for an intimate Digital Discovery concert with Michael Mwenso and South African jazz singer Vuyo Sotashe, both members of the National Sawdust season five group-in-residence Mwenso & The Shakes. The two will present a selection of original duets, both new and from the Shakes catalogue in this 30-minute set from Harlem.
Tuesday, August 4 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Social Bubble Salon Concert #4 | Composers Concordance
Kathleen Supové–Photo by Karjaka Studios
Composers Concordance combines the Live Stream concert with a Social Bubble Gathering of colleagues to present its fourth chamber salon concert in the Pandemic era. The performance will consist of 15 composers/performers presenting their music for each other in a socially-distanced setting in Mark Kostabi’s spacious Chelsea townhouse, while simultaneously live streaming 15 cameras on Facebook Live.
Tuesday, August 4 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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big dog little dog: Jessie Montgomery, violin and Eleonore Oppenheim, bass
Eleonore Oppenheim
Composer-violinist Jessie Montgomery teams up with bassist Eleonore Oppenheim in the duo string ensemble they call big dog little dog, for an evening of what has been described as “post-minimalist groove Americana.”
Tuesday, August 4 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
Tickets $10
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CoPA Conversations: Hank Shocklee & Timo Andres
Timo Andres
CoPA Conversations is a new series of curated talks between two artistic innovators drawn from The New School’s faculty and selected guest artists. This event features music producer and sound designer Hank Shocklee and composer/pianist Timo Andres.
Wednesday, August 5 at 5:00 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 6 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Tesla Quartet | Digital Discovery Festival
Join National Sawdust for a Digital Discovery concert with The Tesla Quartet, who will perform works from their “Alternating Currents” commissioning project in which Tesla selected 12 freelance composers whose work has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic to write short works for string quartet.
Thursday, August 6 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Jupiter Quartet
Jupiter Quartet gives the world premiere of Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores and plays Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.
Thursday, August 6 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Lawrence Brownlee | Digital Discovery Festival
Lawrence Brownlee (photo by Shervin Lainez)
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 Lawrence Brownlee. Brownlee will discuss his process when adapting a new role, his recital work Cycles of My Being (created in collaboration with composer Tyshawn Sorey and lyricist Terrance Hayes), and his fervent advocacy for greater diversity within the opera community.
Friday, August 7 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Breaking Waves | Room | to | Breathe
Across oceans, as well as right in our own backyard, the world’s population fights for access to basic healthcare needs. As we face the global pandemic, these needs are urgent and greater than ever. “Breaking Waves” engages with the seemingly endless fight for access through sound and spoken word.
Saturday, August 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
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El Niño | MetLiveArts
Julia Bullock as Simone Weil– Photo by Ruth Walz
El Niño will make its digital premiere on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s YouTube and Facebook. Soprano Julia Bullock’s rendering of John Adams’s Christmas oratorio El Niño was specially arranged for American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and set in The Met Cloisters as part of Julia Bullock’s 2018–2019 season as MetLiveArts Artist in Residence. This prerecorded performance was the world premiere of Bullock’s new arrangement, and it also marked AMOC’s debut New York City performance.
Saturday, August 8 at 7:30 PM
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Vincent Calianno & Mike Seltzer, trombone | 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 Vincent Calianno’s new work for trombonist Mike Seltzer and an exclusive Q&A with the composer and performer, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Sunday, August 9 at 5:00 PM
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Michael Novak and Josh Prince | 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 9 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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