Hotel Elefant | Ear Heart Music
Hotel Elefant
Ear Heart Music opens its second season at Roulette with Hotel Elefant performing music inspired by themes of extremities, brilliance, and shadow. The concert features music by Richard Carrick, including the world premiere of Prisoner’s Cinema, commissioned by the ensemble. The program also features the world premiere of Kirsten Volness’s new song cycle Precious Nothing and the world premiere of (ensemble co-founder) Leaha Maria Villarreal’s sextet Dark Matter.
Monday, September 23 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Duo Anova
Duo Anova
Duo Anova, consisting of Susan Mandel on cello and Kenji Haba on guitar, perform music by Nathan Kolosko, Atanas Ourkouzounov, Raffaele Bellafronte, Josh Henderson, Masatora Goya, and Toru Takemitsu.
Tuesday, September 24 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, kids free
Saint Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Anna Nicole
British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer: The Opera) immortalize the tumultuous life of Anna Nicole Smith—stripper, playmate, and formidable tabloid queen. Looking to each paparazzi-plagued chapter of the star’s story—the bombshell centerfold, the devastated mother, the unlikely wife of an 89-year-old billionaire—Anna Nicole captures a woman caught between greed and exploitation. Turnage’s vibrant, eclectic score (performed by the New York City Opera orchestra and chorus) and Thomas’ razor-sharp libretto drive this operatic portrait, at once comic and tragic, of modern celebrity and one woman’s warped pursuit of the American dream.
Tuesday, September 24 to Saturday, September 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25-235
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY
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Jane Ashe Presents: Out by Ten
New York City New Music veterans Danny Tunick and Chris Mannigan perform a wideranging program of Contemporary Classical works for Alto saxophone, marimba and vibes, including World Premieres by New York composers Drew Krause and Dan Joseph, as well as works by Cornelius Cardew and Walter Hartley. In an ardent attempt to fracture the standard format of the classical concert, master storyteller Jane Ashe will respond to each piece with a story.
Wednesday, September 25 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Zorn at 60: Orchestra
John Zorn
John Zorn’s dream team orchestra—80 players, at last count—performs some of the composer’s great symphonic works, including his violin concerto. Featuring violin soloist Christopher Otto and conductor David Fulmer heading up an entire orchestra of soloists. Part of Zorn at 60, a three-night celebration of the music of John Zorn.
Wednesday, September 25 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $40, All Access Pass $100
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway New York, NY
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Gregg Kallor
Gregg Kallor
Composer and pianist Gregg Kallor is joined by cellist Laura Metcalf to give the premiere of Kallor’s piece Undercurrent.
Thursday, September 26 at 7 PM
Tickets $20
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Zorn at 60: Chamber Music
Voices, winds, percussion, electronics, and strings. A program of works for small ensembles, including four world premieres, performed by musicians from the city’s best new-music bands. In all, more than two dozen performers and 14 pieces, all of them written since 2002. Part of Zorn at 60, a three-night celebration of the music of John Zorn.
Thursday, September 26 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $40, All Access Pass $100
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway New York, NY
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Zorn at 60: Game Pieces
Without dictating any of the notes to be played, these pieces use visual cues and graphic scores to structure the interactions of improvisers, resulting in remarkable (and one-of-a-kind) performances. This program brings together works rarely heard in a single evening and features many of Zorn’s longtime collaborators: Cyro Baptista, Uri Caine, Erik Friedlander, George Lewis, Marc Ribot, and many, many others. Part of Zorn at 60, a three-night celebration of the music of John Zorn.
Friday, September 27 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $40, All Access Pass $100
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway New York, NY
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John Zorn—A Museum-Wide Celebration
For an entire day, the Museum’s galleries pulsate with John Zorn’s restless and electric sounds, as musicians perform in various galleries during an unprecedented event that marks the creative genius’s 60th birthday. Most of the works presented on this day are Met Museum commissions; others are existing pieces, specifically selected for their organic and sonic relevance to particular gallery spaces.
Saturday, September 28 at 10 AM
Free with museum admission
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave New York, NY
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Morphing Me II | MADArt Creative
MADArt Creative
Premiered back in May, MADArt’s Directors Lauren Camp and Santino Lo created Morphing Me with composer Jeremy Howard Beck’s In Wait & Awakening. A dance piece about transference and transformation about power, Morphing Me will now be presented with two pieces by Megan Bascome & Dancers, LATCH and A Round.
Saturday, September 28 at 8 PM
$15 suggested donation
Two Bridges Community Room, 82 Rutgers Slip, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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W4’s 3rd Annual End Of Summer Festival
On September 28th composers collective West 4th New Music will present their third annual End of Summer Festival, which features a wide array of experimental music performed in a casual atmosphere at Exapno New Music Center.
Saturday, September 28 at 8 PM
Tickets $12
Exapno, 33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Kathy Tagg, piano and Eileen Mack, woodwinds
Kathy Tagg, piano and Eileen Mack, woodwinds perform at Spectrum.
Sunday, September 29 at 3 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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