Cygnus Ensemble “Offbeat Operas” | Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2017
The final concert of the 2017 Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival features the Cygnus Ensemble in a program of “Offbeat Operas” by composers William Anderson, Frank Brickle, and the world premiere of Victoria Bond’s Sirens.
Monday, May 1 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Hear by Design: Music of Andrew Norman
Andrew Norman–Photo by Jessa Anderson
Fourteen performers, including Variation Trio, The Rhythm Method, and Aaron Wunsch, join forces to present the music of Andrew Norman. The program includes Norman’s Stop Motion for string quartet, Dufay’s Nuper rosarum flores, Norman’s Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House, J. S. Bach’s Two Part Inventions (arr. for strings), Norman’s Companion Guide to Rome, Kurtág’s Hommage à Ránki György, and Norman’s Still Life.
Monday, May 1 at 7:30 PM
Free
Music Mondays, Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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A Conversation with Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier will be the latest composer featured in Red Bull Music Academy’s series of talks with pioneering experimental music icons of the 20th century. Following on from conversations with Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Glenn Branca and Pauline Oliveros, Lucier will sit down with RBMA’s Todd L. Burns to talk about the tenets of his vital and exploratory work.
Monday, May 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Red Bull Arts New York, 220 West 18th Street, New York, NY
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Joshua Roman | The Crypt Sessions
Cellist Joshua Roman performs music by Bach, Ligeti, Crumb, and the premiere of his own work Riding Light.
Wednesday, May 3 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $50 (including wine and food tasting)
Crypt Chapel of The Church of the Intercession, 550 West 155th Street, New York, NY
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Annie Gosfield Portrait Concert
Annie Gosfield
The culmination of months of immersion in YIVO’s collections, this concert will feature a premiere from Gosfield commissioned by YIVO for singer Rachel Calloway and violinist Ari Streisfeld about a rent strike by immigrants in the Lower East Side in 1905. The concert will also feature performances by Gosfield, guitarist Roger Kleier, percussionist Brian Chase, and pianist Kathleen Supové. A discussion with Gosfield on Jewish identity, her family history in the Lower East Side and the influence of Jewish history and culture on her work will bring the evening to a close.
Thursday, May 4 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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Chiaroscuro
This concert features music by Orlando Gibbons, Arnold Schoenberg, and Matthias Pintscher.
Thursday, May 4 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, $10 12 and under
Eleventh Street Arts, 46-06 11th St, Long Island City, NY
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Flash Operas
Six world premiere, 15-minute operas are presented together for this evening-length program in the intimate Leonard Nimoy Thalia. Envisioned as a new kind of opera that embraces brevity and tackles big ideas playfully, each micro opera is connected to the next to create a fluid theatrical experience. Featured composers are Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch, Miguel Frasconi, Cristina Lord, and Nicole Murphy. Directed by Rob Reese.
Friday, May 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $21 Members, $20 30 and under (with ID)
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Evil Nigger Part IV: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman
Artist, designer, and composer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste opens his 2017 ISSUE residency with a collaboration with interdisciplinary artist LaMont Hamilton. The performance is the collaborative duo’s fourth performance around Julius Eastman’s 1979 composition, Evil Nigger.
Friday, May 5 & Saturday, May 6 at 8:00 PM
Free ($10 suggested donation)
ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Bang on a Can Marathon
Bang on a Can All-Stars – Photo by Peter Serling
The Bang on a Can Marathon gathers at the Brooklyn Museum to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the music marathon. This year, it runs from 2 PM to 10 PM.
Saturday, May 6 at 2:00 PM
Free with museum admission
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
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Flash Operas
Six world premiere, 15-minute operas are presented together for this evening-length program in the intimate Leonard Nimoy Thalia. Envisioned as a new kind of opera that embraces brevity and tackles big ideas playfully, each micro opera is connected to the next to create a fluid theatrical experience. Featured composers are Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch, Miguel Frasconi, Cristina Lord, and Nicole Murphy. Directed by Rob Reese.
Saturday, May 6 at 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $21 Members, $20 30 and under (with ID)
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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An Elegy for All Humanity
On the program is a seldom heard chamber arrangement of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem featuring the Musica Viva NY choir, soprano Devony Smith, and bass-baritone Joseph Beutel together with a newly orchestrated version of Seymour Bernstein’s Song of Nature by Musica Viva NY Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez.
Sunday, May 7 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $30
All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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