Mary Prescott’s LITMUS RESIDENCY
Multidisciplinary artist Mary Prescott curates and performs new works and collaborations involving music, movement, word, and installation. The evening also features music and a performance by Angelica Negron.
Monday, June 18 at 8:00 PM & 11:00 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 at door
Areté Venue and Gallery, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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G Lucas Crane: Time Boiler
Time Boiler is both a tale of time travel memory loss told in tape collage music and a series of attempts at time compression through musical trials on the performing body. In this program, G Lucas Crane will be tasked with specific times in which to tell each part of the story, cooking down time itself into a series of dense atmospheric collages set to otherworldly video pieces. He will reveal the lost tapes of prophecy and use these mutant tapes of yore to succeed in the trials of the Time Boiler.
Tuesday, June 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15 online, $20 at door
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Season Finale | North/South Consonance
The North/South Chamber Orchestra concludes its 38th consecutive season of free-admission concerts in New York City on Tuesday evening June 19. Vocalist Sandra Moon will appear as soloist while Max Lifchitz – the ensemble’s founder – will be on the podium. The program celebrates the arrival of summer featuring four compositions by Douglas Hedwig, Max Lifchitz, Carla Magnan, and Leslie Opatril.
Tuesday, June 19 at 8:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Irreverence Group Music
Irreverence Group Music presents soprano Rachel Hippert’s New York premiere of Julian De La Chica’s work Experimentelle und unbestimmte Lieder Op. 9. This will be the first performance in the USA after its world premiere in Colombia in 2017 and after the album’s release also in 2017. In the second part of the concert, Rachel Hippert and mezzo soprano Hannah Kramer will also premier De La Chica’s latest piece Gowanus, a duet based on original poems by Susan Campos-Fonseca.
Wednesday, June 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$40
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Make Music New York
Now entering its 12th year, Make Music New York (MMNY) is a unique festival of 1,000+ free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on June 21, the first day of summer and longest day of the year.
Thursday, June 21 at 12:00 AM
Free
Various Locations
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Underwood New Music Readings
American Composers Orchestra. Photo credit: RMK Photos
ACO will hold its 27th Annual Underwood New Music Readings for emerging composers on Thursday and Friday, June 21 and 22, 2018. Six composers have been selected by open call to participate including Carlos Bandera, Lily Chen, Scott Lee, Ryan Lindveit, Tomas Peire Serrate, and Liliya Ugay. Each composer will hear ACO perform their work live for the first time, receive personalized mentorship, and an archival recording. Two composers will receive a commission for a work to be performed by ACO in an upcoming season: one will be selected by the panel of mentor composers and one will be selected as the Audience Favorite through an audience survey.
Thursday, June 21 at 10:30 AM and Friday, June 22 at 7:30 PM
Free on June 21 and $10 on June 22
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Molissa Fenley and Company
Molissa Fenley collaborates with musicians Frank Cassara and Ralph Farris in an evening of dance and live music that includes scores by four contemporary composers — Linda Bouchard, Andrew Toovey, Tigran Mansurian, as well as Frank Cassara. The music was composed expressly for percussion and viola.
Thursday, June 21 to Saturday, June 23 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $22 advance, $15 members, $25 at door
St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY
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Brandon Lopez: The Lamentations + Bennett/Foster/Wooley/Lopez
Composed specifically for improvising musicians, Lamentations is named for the Book of Lamentations, though the work itself is secular and harbors no overt meaning. Sam Yulsman and Brandon Lopez will play them first. Followed by the 4tet. Brandon Lopez and Sam Yulsman have been working together since meeting in 2015. The 4tet is a new venture.
Thursday, June 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 at door
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Z’EV Memorial
The Kitchen will host a memorial celebration to honor the artist Z’EV, after his passing this winter. The evening will include live and recorded music by Z’EV, Shelley Hirsch + David Weinstein, Carl Stone, David Linton, Elliott Sharp, Zach Layton, Bob Bellerue, and Julien Ottavi, with remarks, remembrances, and images by Ellen Zweig, Ned Sublette, Roberta Friedman, Livia Polanyi, Steve Speer, and Paula Court.
Saturday, June 23 at 7:00 PM
Free
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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An Economy of Means Album Release: Doug Perkins x Karl Larson
Percussionist Doug Perkins (photo credit: Ben Johansen)
Percussionist Doug Perkins and pianist Karl Larson celebrate the release of composer Robert Honstein’s second album An Economy of Means. Featuring two large works–An Economy of Means for prepared vibraphone and Grand Tour for piano — the album represents years of close collaboration between Honstein, Perkins, and Larson, with each piece an outgrowth of their deep musical and personal relationships.
Saturday, June 23 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$15
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Jonathan Finlayson
For his Commission at Roulette, Jonathan Finalyson has set to music selected poems by renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Sterling Brown, whose work was deeply influenced by jazz.
Sunday, June 24 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15 online, $20 at door
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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