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11 Nov
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Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 7:30pm Brahms, Jonathan Dove and Elgar Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12 £16 £22 £24 The Schubert Ensemble
In this fitting programme for Remembrance Sunday the Schubert Ensemble performs Elgar’s warm, autumnal Piano Quintet, written at the end of World War I, together with Brahms’s deeply personal Piano Quartet No. 3, with possibly the most gorgeous slow movement in the repertoire. These late romantic masterpieces contrast vividly with Jonathan Dove’s sparkling and energetic Piano Quintet, written for the Ensemble in 2009.
‘…they demand superlatives’ Sunday Times
‘…outstanding in every respect’ Guardian
Johannes Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 Jonathan Dove : Piano Quintet Edward Elgar : Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84
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11 Nov
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Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 7:15PM Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues DROM Concert Series OCT - DEC DROM, New York , 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village United States (212) 777-1157 http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $15 Chico Hamilton
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.14 + 11.11 + 12.09
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Fall (OCT - DEC) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 14 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 11 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 9 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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12 Nov
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Monday, November 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM The Mavron Quartet St David's Hall Cardiff United Kingdom
Tickets: £5.50 in advance The Mavron Quartet
The Mavron Quartet, St David's Hall's Ensemble in Residence, is Wales' leading string Quartet. Since forming in 2002 the quartet has worked collaboratively with a range of artists to produce and perform new works, alongside outreach work with St David's Hall and the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.
In association with Live Music Now Wales
Giovanni Battista Viotti : String Quartet No 1 in F Hugh Wood : String Quartet No 1
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13 Nov
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7.30pm Chloë Hanslip performs Brahms Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Christoph Koenig
Violin - Chloë Hanslip
Royal Philharmonic Ochestra
He may have been overshadowed by Wagner, but without Weber the history of opera would be very different. Weber’s Der Freischütz, with its atmospheric Overture, is considered the first important German Romantic opera – and had a huge impact on Wagner himself. Brahms and Wagner were rivals, splitting the musical world with their different approaches to composition, yet few can now resist the sunny charm of the Violin Concerto by Brahms. With its lyrical opening movement, exquisite, singing Adagio and vigorous finale, the Concerto is an ideal showcase for the talents of Chloë Hanslip. Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony is one of his most joyous, full of Bohemian folk-tunes and orchestral colour.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz Overture Johannes Brahms : Violin Concerto Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No.8
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14 Nov
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7:30pm Colin Matthews, Schumann and Mozart Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £10 Elias String Quartet
Mozart fashioned his Clarinet Quintet for Anton Stadler, a great Viennese wind player and fellow Freemason. The score periodically places the clarinet centre stage while generally treating the instrument as an equal chamber music partner. This concert opens with the world première of a new work, specially written by Colin Matthews for the Elias Quartet.
In creating string quartets, Schumann observed, ‘the composer must possess an intimate knowledge of the genre’s history, but should strive to produce more than mere imitations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.’ He followed his advice to brilliant effect in the third of his Op. 41 quartets, displaying inventive ingenuity throughout.
Colin Matthews : String Quartet No. 4 Robert Schumann : String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Wolfgang Mozart : Clarinet Quintet in A K581
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17 Nov
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Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 7:30pm Melodia Women's Choir of NYC "Questions About Angels" 10th Anniversary Concert Church of the Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Avenue, NYC, New York United States +1 800-838-3006 http://www.melodiawomenschoir.org/ info@horsedragon-nyc.com
Tickets: $20/advance, $25/door ($15/advance students and seniors) Melodia Women's Choir
Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director
Taisiya Pushkar (piano)
Haruka Fujii (marimba)
Barbara Merjan (percussion)
Wendy Powers (recorder)
Eleonore Oppenheim (bass)
Melodia Women's Choir of New York City, conducted by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell, celebrates a milestone 10th anniversary season with "Questions About Angels." This musical journey of rare and premiere works for women's voices brings together medieval, classical, sacred and contemporary in one exuberant concert showcasing the talent, diversity, and joy that has become the hallmark of Melodia Women's Choir this past decade.
At the center of Melodia's performance, and the inspiration behind the program's title, is the world premiere composition "Questions About Angels" for voices, marimba, piano and double bass by New York-based composer Sally Lamb McCune. Winner of the second Melodia Women's Composer Commission Competition, this work is in three movements and features a unique blend of angel-inspired poetry by the 15th-century mystic Bianco da Siena, English poet Christina Rossetti, American poet laureate Billy Collins, African-American spirituals and Shaker hymns.
"I'm thrilled to be conducting Sally Lamb McCune's new work for Melodia's 10th anniversary season," says Artistic Director Cynthia Powell. "The work starts in an ethereal mode and moves into a sultry jazz feeling in the second movement, set to one of my all time favorite poems by Billy Collins. The last movement is fast and exciting - her instrumental and vocal writing makes the piece virtually fly off the page." Powell, as founding conductor, celebrates her 10th anniversary with the group.
The varied program is rounded out with a sampling of songs in anticipation of the December holidays, including John Tavener's "The Lamb" with poetry by William Blake, and a collection sacred songs of early America arranged by the renowned women's a cappella group, Anonymous 4.
Closing the program is a selection of medieval works arranged for women's voices, recorders, violin and percussion arranged by the U.K.-based ensemble, The Mediaeval Baebes.
The program also features Allison Sniffin's "Punch!" a tour de force instrumental work featuring world-class marimba player Haruka Fujii and award-winning pianist Taisiya Pushkar.
Melodia Women's Choir has been called "riveting" by the New York Times and was named one of the top choirs in New York by Time Out New York. Melodia has been heard on radio stations WQXR and WNYC, seen on NBC-TV, and has performed at Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Surrogate's Courthouse as guest artists at the Women's History Month Celebration for the New York City Comptroller.
Sally Lamb McCune : Questions About Angels John Tavener : The Lamb Allison Sniffin : Punch!
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17 Nov
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Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm Melodia Women's Choir of NYC Presents: Questions About Angels, a 10th Anniversary Concert Church of the Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Avenue, NYC, New York United States +1 800-838-3006 http://www.melodiawomenschoir.org/ info@horsedragon-nyc.com
Tickets: $20/advance, $25/door ($15/advance students and seniors) Visit www.melodiawomenschoir.org Melodia Womenʼs Choir, Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director, Taisiya Pushkar (piano), Haruka Fujii (marimba), and Barbara Merjan (percussion)
WORLD PREMIERE: “ALL ABOUT ANGELS” BY SALLY LAMB McCUNE
Medieval English Dances, 19th-century American Sacred Songs
“Punch!” for marimba and piano by ALLISON SNIFFIN
TWO PERFORMANCES: SAT, NOV 17 at 7:30 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 Ninth Avenue, Chelsea, New York City
& SUN, NOV 18 at 4:00 pm
West End Collegiate Church, 368 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, New York City
Melodia Women's Choir of New York City, conducted by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell, celebrates a milestone 10th anniversary season with “Questions About Angels.” This musical journey of rare and premiere works for womenʼs voices brings together medieval, classical, sacred and contemporary in one exuberant concert showcasing the talent, diversity, and joy that has become the hallmark of Melodia Womenʼs Choir this past decade.
At the center of Melodiaʼs performance, and the inspiration behind the programʼs title, is the world premiere composition “All About Angels” for voices, marimba, piano and double bass by New York-based composer Sally Lamb McCune. Winner of the second Melodia Womenʼs Composer Commission Competition, this work is in three movements and features a unique blend of angel- inspired poetry by the 15th-century mystic Bianco da Siena, English poet Christina Rossetti, American poet laureate Billy Collins, African-American spirituals and Shaker hymns.
Sally Lamb McCune : All About Angels
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18 Nov
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Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 4:00 pm Melodia Women's Choir of NYC presents "Questions About Angels" West End Collegiate Church West End Ave. at 77th St United States http://www.westendchurch.org
Tickets: $20/advance, $25/door Melodia Women's Choir, Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director, Taisiya Pushkar (piano), Haruka Fujii (marimba), Barbara Merjan (percussion), Wendy Powers (recorder), and Eleonore Oppenheim (bass)
Melodia Women's Choir of New York City, conducted by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell, celebrates a milestone 10th anniversary season with "Questions About Angels." This musical journey of rare and premiere works for women's voices brings together medieval, classical, sacred and contemporary in one exuberant concert showcasing the talent, diversity, and joy that has become the hallmark of Melodia Women's Choir this past decade.
At the center of Melodia's performance, and the inspiration behind the program's title, is the world premiere composition "Questions About Angels" for voices, marimba, piano and double bass by New York-based composer Sally Lamb McCune. Winner of the second Melodia Women's Composer Commission Competition, this work is in three movements and features a unique blend of angel-inspired poetry by the 15th-century mystic Bianco da Siena, English poet Christina Rossetti, American poet laureate Billy Collins, African-American spirituals and Shaker hymns.
"I'm thrilled to be conducting Sally Lamb McCune's new work for Melodia's 10th anniversary season," says Artistic Director Cynthia Powell. "The work starts in an ethereal mode and moves into a sultry jazz feeling in the second movement, set to one of my all time favorite poems by Billy Collins. The last movement is fast and exciting - her instrumental and vocal writing makes the piece virtually fly off the page." Powell, as founding conductor, celebrates her 10th anniversary with the group.
The varied program is rounded out with a sampling of songs in anticipation of the December holidays, including John Tavener's "The Lamb" with poetry by William Blake, and a collection sacred songs of early America arranged by the renowned women's a cappella group, Anonymous 4.
Closing the program is a selection of medieval works arranged for women's voices, recorders, violin and percussion arranged by the U.K.-based ensemble, The Mediaeval Baebes.
The program also features Allison Sniffin's "Punch!" a tour de force instrumental work featuring world-class marimba player Haruka Fujii and award-winning pianist Taisiya Pushkar.
Melodia Women's Choir has been called "riveting" by the New York Times and was named one of the top choirs in New York by Time Out New York. Melodia has been heard on radio stations WQXR and WNYC, seen on NBC-TV, and has performed at Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Surrogate's Courthouse as guest artists at the Women's History Month Celebration for the New York City Comptroller.
Sally Lamb McCune : Questions About Angels Allison Sniffin : Punch! John Tavener : The Lamb
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Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 8pm Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time Turner Sims, Southampton
United Kingdom
Netia Jones/Lightmap video design
John Constable piano
Landmarks is the London Sinfonietta's new series of chamber concerts, featuring performances of seminal music combined with short video interventions setting a context for the composer, the work, and its impact on the musical and cultural life of the 20th century. The first subject is Olivier Messiaen and his Quartet for the end of Time, premiered in a prisoner of war camp in 1941 where the composer himself was incarcerated.
At this performance, the ticket price includes a complimentary drink after the concert.
The London Sinfonietta are proud to be Associate Arists at Turner Sims, Southampton.
Olivier Messiaen : La Colombe Olivier Messiaen : Plainte Calme Olivier Messiaen : Theme and Variations Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the End of Time
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22 Nov
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22 Nov
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23 Nov
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Friday, November 23, 2012 at 7.30 pm Brand New Music for Winds Regent Hall 275 Oxford St., London W1 2DJ United Kingdom
Tickets: Tickets at Door (£10 (6) whole event, £8 (5) concert only. 15th London New Wind Festival
Charlotte Munro, Flutes
Catherine Pluygers, Oboes
Phil Edwards, Clarinets
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Horn
Glyn Williams, Bassoon
Alan Tomlinson, Trombone
Robert Coleridge, Piano
6-7 Composers Forum - discussing their work- chaired by Stephen Mark Barchan
7.30 Concert
Programme Includes:
* Ewan Campbell But I Digress
for Wind Quartet and Piano
* Richard Peat Wind Quintet
*** Ari Ben-Shabetai Winks
for Wind Quintet
** Tom Owen Womb
for full Ensemble
* Enid Luff Scherzo
for Winds (Flute, Horn and Trombone)
* Stephen Mark Barchan Blasted to Bits
for Solo Trombone & Electronics
** Colleen Muriel The Nearness of the Beloved
for Flute and Piano
Hilary Tann Doppelganger
for Solo Piano
* Henryk Sienkiewicz Sonatina
for Horn and Piano
* Chris Mortlock Dialogue
for Bassoon and Piano
* world premier
** london premier
*** european premier
Ari Ben-Shabetai : Winks - for woodwind quintet Richard Peat : Wind Quintet Enid Luff : Scherzo
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23 Nov
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24 Nov
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Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 2PM - 10PM Sonic Vigil 7 Shandon Church Shandon, Cork Ireland
Quiet Music Ensemble, Quiet Club, Karen Power, Stalling/Kelly, Harry Moore, Katie O' Looney.
Sonic Vigil 7 is an 8-hour celebration of sound. It is an annual event which brings together music, sound, visuals in a mix of installations, improvisations and compositions.
'are you where you think you are' is a quadraphonic sound installation and recipient of Ruth Anderson Prize from IAWM.
Karen Power : are you where you think you are
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24 Nov
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24 Nov
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24 Nov
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Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 11.30am Insight:Richard Baker CBSO Centre, Birmingham Berkley Street, Birmingham United Kingdom
Tickets: Free event Composer Richard Baker
Composer/sound artist Nye Parry
BCMG percussionist Julian Warburton
Join us for this mid-morning event with composer Richard Baker, composer/sound artist Nye Parry and BCMG percussionist Julian Warburton, to gain an insight into Richard Baker’s working method and get a first taste of his Sound Investment piece for ensemble and electronics, which we premiere in our February 2013 concert.
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29 Nov
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Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 7.30pm Natasha Paremski performs Shostakovich Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ United Kingdom 02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15 Conductor - Rory Macdonald
Piano - Natasha Paremski
Trumpet - Mike Allen
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
This delectable programme of spine-tingling works opens with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams. The majesty of the English Renaissance meets the pre-war innocence of early twentieth-century England, as a theme by Thomas Tallis resonates through Vaughan Williams’ rich string textures. In the fascinating Piano Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings by Shostakovich, the piano dominates, but both soloists shine with quickfire exchanges and rhythmic verve. The Walk to the Paradise Garden, from the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet by Delius, is a gloriously seductive work, its sumptuous orchestration dripping with nostalgia. As if this wasn’t enough, the epic Fifth Symphony by Sibelius is one of his masterpieces, building to a climactic finale with its unforgettable horn theme.
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Dmitri Shostakovich : Piano Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings Frederick Delius : The Walk to the Paradise Garden Jean Sibelius : Symphony No.5
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30 Nov
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Friday, November 30, 2012 at 8pm Composers Concordance's Festival II: Concert #1: 60 x 60 Spectrum 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC United States http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Tickets: Tickets $10 Instrumentation: Electronic Music / Multimedia
60 Electronic Composers
The festival commences with an electronic music / multimedia event at Spectrum - that burgeoning Ludlow Street venue described in The New York Times as recalling "New York’s experimental-music lofts of the 1970s and ’80s". In partnership with Vox Novus / 60 x 60, the program will feature 60 one-minute works by composers including Joel Chadabe, Robert Dick, Lainie Fefferman, Mari Kimura, Joan La Barbara, Jascha Narveson, and Robert Voisey, among many others. https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Gene Pritsker : paroxysm extract
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30 Nov
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1 Dec
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1 Dec
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1 Dec
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Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 7pm Composers Concordance's Festival II: Concert #2: Soli Faust Harrison Pianos 205 West 58th Street, New York, NY United States http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com/
Tickets: free Kathleen Supové, Eleonor Sandresky, & Jed Distler
This unique concert brings together, in an intimate boutique setting, three of today's piano music stars: Kathleen Supové, Eleonor Sandresky, and Jed Distler. Each a champion with a distinctive approach to piano music interpretation and presentation, these artists perform their own compositions, as well as a triple-piano suite composed specifically for them by Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Jed Distler, and Daniel Palkowski. http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com/events.shtml
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2 Dec
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Sunday, December 2, 2012 at New Music Show 3 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 08700 606 096 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Martyn Brabbins conductor *
Huw Watkins piano +
Sound Intermedia sound projection
London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble
The New Music Show is the London Sinfonietta's platform for new music from the very best emerging talent from the UK and abroad. Enjoy a festival-in-a-day with performances, installations, talks and opportunities to participate.
Performances from 4.00pm throughout the afternoon and evening:
Set 1: 4.30pm
John Cage Suite for Toy Piano
Andrew Hamilton solo piece
Juliana Hodkinson Stills
Set 2: 6.00pm*
Tansy Davies Nature (London premiere) +
Larry Goves Trends in personal relationships (first professional performance)
Set 3: 7.30pm*
David Fennessy 13 Factories (UK premiere)
Andrew Norman Try (London premiere)
Gerald Barry Lisbon
Late-set: 9.00pm with Oliver Coates and guest artist Serafina Steer
Alvin Lucier Music for cello and one or more amplified vases
Serafina Steer songs
Charlie Usher Yawl Ketch Schooner Brig
Plus, throughout the day, Hidden gives the chance to discover a series of specially-commissioned new works in hidden spaces around Southbank Centre. Sign up on the day to book your space.
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3 Dec
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Monday, December 3, 2012 at 7.30pm Britten - The String Quartets Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £15 £20 £25 £30 Takács Quartet
Wigmore Hall’s newly appointed Associate Artists explore Britten’s three numbered string quartets, compositions shaped by intellectual complexity and profound compassion. The Takács Quartet has lived with these works for many years, crafting interpretations that seize listeners with their insight, captivating honesty and sense of awe.
Wigmore Hall played host to the first UK performance of the composer’s String Quartet No. 1 in April 1943 and provided the platform for the November 1945 world première of String Quartet No. 2, complete with its mighty ‘Chacony’, a tribute to Henry Purcell.
Peter Eyre will read excerpts from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice before the performance of String Quartet No. 3, which finds echoes in the novella.
Benjamin Britten : String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Benjamin Britten : String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Benjamin Britten : String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94
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3 Dec
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Monday, December 3, 2012 at 19:30-21:30 ACM Ensemble - Music of the Upbow International Anthony Burgess Foundation Centre Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY United Kingdom http://www.anthonyburgess.org/
Tickets: £3 Following their performance of Abrahamsen's Schnee in June, ACM Ensemble invites its audience to a further exploration of the subtle and delicate sounds of Danish contemporary music. Along with commissions from two emerging British composers, the program represents Danes from three generations, concluding with the UK premiere of Steen-Andersen's strikingly original masterpiece Amid.
Simon Steen-Andersen : rerendered Bent Sorensen : Angelus Waltz Bent Sorensen : The Hill of the Heartless Giant David Futers : windows and door: Demark (1) Lars Bagger : Propior Deo David Curington : Flute, Clarinet and Violin Nos. 1-3 Simon Steen-Andersen : Amid
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4 Dec
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 7:30pm Composers Concordance's Festival II: Concert #4: Nine Live Shapeshifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn United States http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/ info@ShapeShifterLab.com
Tickets: $10 violinist Dave Soldier, composer-clarinetist Kinan Amzeh, composer-trumpeter Franz Hackl, composer-hornist John Clark, composer-vocalist-keyboardist-gusle player Milica Paranosic, composer-pianist-keyboardist Patrick Grant, composer-guitarist Gene Pritsker, composer-bass guitarist Dan Cooper, and composer-percussionist Peter Jarvis.
It'll be well worth the trip over to Brooklyn's cutting-edge venue Shapeshifter Lab to hear this rambunctious nonet made up entirely of composers, performing a set of nine premieres. This event features the Composers Concordance Ensemble: composer-violinist Dave Soldier, composer-clarinetist Kinan Amzeh, composer-trumpeter Franz Hackl, composer-hornist John Clark, composer-vocalist-keyboardist-gusle player Milica Paranosic, composer-pianist-keyboardist Patrick Grant, composer-guitarist Gene Pritsker, composer-bass guitarist Dan Cooper, and composer-percussionist Peter Jarvis. http://www.shapeshifterlab.com
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7 Dec
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Friday, December 7, 2012 at Activities in foyer from 4pm. Concert starts at 4.30pm Quartet for the End of Time Bramall Music Building University of Birmingham, Edgbaston United Kingdom
Tickets: £4 adults / free for under 16s (all children must be accompanied by an adult)
On a bitingly cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA German prisoner-of-war camp, an extraordinary piece of music was performed for the first time by a group of four prisoners - a clarinettist, violinist, cellist and pianist. The composer was Olivier Messiaen, the piece Quartet for the End of Time. Drawing inspiration from birdsong and ancient Hindu rhythms, and with movements with titles such as ‘Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets’ and ‘Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time’, the piece is a 20th century classic.
Come and join us for this hour-long informal concert, hear excerpts of the piece, and learn the amazing story behind the music and about the lives of the musicians who performed it.
Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the End of Time
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7 Dec
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Friday, December 7, 2012 at 4.30pm Families@4: Looking to the Heavens Bramall Music Building University of Birmingham, Edgbaston United Kingdom
Tickets: £4 adults / free for under 16s (all children must be accompanied by an adult) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Activities in foyer from 4pm
This fun, bite-sized and interactive concert for young people and their families will explore the heavenly music of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of time and extracts from one of the 20th century’s most important compositions, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.
Get close up to the music and musicians in this informal and relaxed performance. Come early and take part in activities in the foyer.
Best suited to children aged 7+
Performances will last around one hour
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7 Dec
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Friday, December 7, 2012 at 8pm Composers Concordance's Festival II: Concert #5: Legends DiMenna Center Mary Flagler Cary Hall 450 West 37th Street, NYC United States http://www.oslmusic.org/dimenna-center/
Tickets: $20 day of performance, $15 students and advance tickets Composers Concordance Chamber Orchestra (CCCO), Lara St. John - violin, Valerie Coleman - flute, Thomas Carlo Bo - conductor
In 1893, legendary Czech composer Antonín Dvořák spoke in NYC of the influence of Native American and African American music on his Symfonie. He urged American composers to focus attention on what "must" be the foundation for "the future music of this country." The concert program is entitled 'Legends', recalling the timeless melodies of Dvořák himself, and examining the influence of Native American and African American music on contemporary orchestral composition. Conducted by Thomas Carlo Bo, this debut performance of CCCO features violinist Lara St. John and flutist Valerie Coleman (of Imani Winds) as soloists. Moreover, each member of this orchestra is a true champion of contemporary music, including bass trombonist Dave Taylor, pianist Taka Kigawa, percussionist Peter Jarvis, violinist Lynn Bechtold, and oboist Keve Wilson, among others. Don't miss this event, to include the distinctive compositions of Valerie Coleman, Dan Cooper, Patrick Hardish (Founding Director), Otto Luening ('Potawatomi Legends'), Milica Paranosic, Joseph Pehrson (Founding Director), Gene Pritsker, and Dave Soldier. http://www.oslmusic.org/dimenna-center-welcome
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7 Dec
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Friday, December 7, 2012 at 7.30pm Looking to the Heavens Symphony Hall, Birmingham Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom 0121 200 2000 symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £10 - £42 Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Soprano: Claire Booth *
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire was premiered at the Berlin Choralion-Saal on 16 October 1912. The small mixed ensemble that Schoenberg invented for this masterpiece of early atonal music has over the last 100 years become a ‘standard ensemble’, spawning a large repertoire for this grouping of instruments by subsequent composers.
Pierrot Lunaire is a three-part work that sets German translations of poems by Albert Giraud. The eight instruments played by five performers are arranged differently in every number and produce an amazing variety of sound. A striking feature of the work is the vocalist’s Sprechstimme (speech-singing), an eerie declamation between song and speech, where the pitch is sounded but not held; instead, the vocalist immediately leaves the note, falling or rising to the next.
The first of three performances of Pierrot Lunaire in our 25th anniversary season follows a CBSO performance of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. Composed just 20 years before Schoenberg’s tour de force, Bruckner’s symphony is one of late Romantic music’s most overwhelming experiences.
Concert preceded by a free 30-minute piano recital at 6.15pm, performed by one of the rising stars of Birmingham Conservatoire.
Anton Bruckner : Symphony No. 8 Arnold Schoenberg : Pierrot Lunaire
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Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 7:15PM Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues DROM Concert Series OCT - DEC DROM, New York , 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village United States (212) 777-1157 http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $15 Chico Hamilton
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.14 + 11.11 + 12.09
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Fall (OCT - DEC) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 14 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 11 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 9 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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