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Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7.30pm - 9pm Sounds of the New The Forge, London 3-7 Delancey Street, London, NW1 7NL United Kingdom
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions) Octandre Ensemble
New Dots presents an informal evening of world premieres performed by London based new music specialists, the Octandre Ensemble. Performing six newly commissioned musical works by some of the best emerging composition talent in the country, the concert will also feature talks from the composers about their work, giving the audience a unique insight into their creative process, and the collaboration between performer and composer
Maxim Boon : Sailing Stones William Cheshire : Slices Patrick John Jones : New Work Sam Messer : duo music Nick Morrish Rarity : Patina Kristoffer To : New Work
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14 Dec
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7pm Studio Concert: new music by British composers BBC Maida Vale Studios, London Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London United Kingdom 02085761227
Tickets: Free BBC Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker conductor
British master Robin Holloway’s In China, written in 2012, receives its UK premiere at Maida Vale Studios conducted by Garry Walker. In September 2011, Holloway was invited to explore China with four other composers, to be inspired and write a new orchestral piece embodying his responses to the sensory and cultural experiences there. Holloway particularly responded to the extraordinary landscapes he witnessed on this journey and describes his new work as ‘extremely direct’, to reflect the vastness of Chinese accomplishments such as the skyscrapers in Beijing, the Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors Army. He also took inspiration from the ethnic music and the rhythmic quality of the sound of the Chinese language he heard.
Emily Howard’s Solar precedes this; a work which encapsulates the sun. Howard describes the inspiration taken from this object of devotion, with its strong solar magnetic field, reflected in her music by bursting energy on the surface, but always with a slow-burning and intense core.
This concert also features exciting new compositions by Sound and Music Embedded composers Tom Coult, Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Benjamin Oliver, who continue their residency with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now.
Tom Coult : Codex (Homage to Serafini) Aaron Holloway-Nahum : The Deeper Breath to Follow Benjamin Oliver : Lullaby for Joni Emily Howard : Solar Robin Holloway : In China
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15 Dec
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15 Dec
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Friday, November 15, 2013 at 7.30pm RSNO - Britten's War Requiem Usher Hall Edinburgh Scotland
Peter Oundjian (CONDUCTOR)
Susan Gritton (SOPRANO)
Jeffrey Francis (TENOR)
Russell Braun (BARITONE)
RSNO Chorus
RSNO Junior Chorus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
“My subject is war, and the pity of war.” Benjamin Britten took sacred words and the poetry of
the First World War, and combined them into a masterpiece that echoes down the decades: bold, poetic, and devastatingly emotional. One week before Britten’s hundredth birthday, Peter Oundjian, three great soloists, and our two superb choruses come together in this unique commemorative performance of the War Requiem.
Benjamin Britten : War Requiem
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16 Dec
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Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 7.30pm Entangled Music inspired by GEB by Harry Whalley Reid Hall Edinburgh Scotland
Tickets: £8 Full / £4 Concessions Conducted by James Lowe
Gildas Quartet,
Northern Lights Quintet
Pete Furniss,
Clea Friend,
Patrick Broderick
Paul Harrison,
and more
Based on the 'Strange Loop' paradigm as described by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel Escher Bach. Harry Whalley's 'Entangled Music' is a major work for large chamber ensemble with this ideas at its core.
Harry Whalley : Entangled Music
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16 Dec
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16 Dec
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Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 7.30pm Haas: in vain Huddersfield Town Hall Huddersfield Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield HD1 2TA United Kingdom
Tickets: £20, £18, £16 André de Ridder conductor
London Sinfonietta
“How to describe it? An astonishing work of art that has become a cult wherever it is played. One of the first great masterpieces of the C21st.”
Sir Simon Rattle
Premiered in 2000 and now receiving its much-awaited UK premiere performance at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Haas’ in vain is an extraordinary work of contradictions and juxtapositions, exploring a heightened sensory world where darkness and light coincide. Written in protest to the rise of the far-right Freedom Party in the 1999 Austrian elections, in vain hints at a frightening world where dark, unnatural forces are at work. As familiar harmonies meet microtonal systems, Haas evokes an otherworldly realm that oscillates between the past and the present, between clarity and dystopia. Performed partly in complete darkness, in vain transforms the concert hall into a mysterious new landscape, where you must trust your ears and relinquish your sight.
Georg Friedrich Haas : in vain
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16 Dec
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Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 8:00pm BMOP Launches 18th Season with "Four Saints" Jordan Hall, Boston 30 Gainsborough Street United States 617-585-1260 http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20 and Up Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Led by conductor Gil Rose, BMOP will be joined by Sarah Pelletier (soprano, St. Teresa I), Gigi Mitchell-Velasco (contralto, St. Teresa I), Deborah Selig (soprano, St. Settlement), Aaron Engebreth (baritone, St. Ignatius), Charles Blandy (tenor, St. Chavez), Tom McNichols (bass, Compere), and Lynn Torgove (mezzo-soprano, Commere).
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, presents a one-night only concert performance of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts (1928). An abstruse modernist opera sans plot or formal structure, Four Saints is the perfect way for the unflagging BMOP orchestra to kick-start the new season.
Virgil Thomson : Four Saints
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17 Dec
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Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 7:15pm Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton performs 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
Euphoria Band
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON CONTINUES MONTHLY CONCERT SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY’S DROM
Sundays this Fall: 10.20 + 11.17 + 12.15
WHAT: NEA JAZZ MASTER CHICO HAMILTON @ DROM
In yet another strong showing by this venerable drummer, 92 year-old percussionist and band leader Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton celebrates his working life in a trio of concerts – EUPHORIC: Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton. Known for fashioning finely textured sounds with small ensembles, Chico leads his long-time working group Euphoria 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 some new original material as well as works off of Chico’s latest vivacious albums: Revelation and Euphoric (Joyous Shout!). 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. According to Jazz Improv NY, “he sounds more creative and artistic than ever.”
WHEN: Sunday, October 20 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, November 17 @ 7:15PM
Sunday, December 15 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th St), New York City; Train F to 2nd Avenue, 10009
HOW: $15/Advance $12. To reserve, call DROM at 212.777.1157 or visit www.dromNYC.com.
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Chico Hamilton : Euphria
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Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 7:15pm Chico Hamilton's "Euphoria" Performs at DROM 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's "Euphoria"
CELEBRATING THE LIFE & MUSIC OF LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON
Monthly Concert Series Featuring EUPHORIA
WHAT: EUPHORIA Presents Celebrating the Life & Music of Foreststorn “Chico"
Hamilton, featuring Chico's longstanding Euphoria ensemble with Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion), Mayu Saeki (flute) & Nick Demopolous (guitar).
In honor of the 92 year-old percussionist and band leader, his long-time working group Euphoria continues his legacy with a monthly concert series at DROM starting Sunday, November 17th with special featured guests TBA.
Known for fashioning finely textured sounds with small ensembles, the program includes some new original material off of Chico’s forthcoming album (Release Date 2014) as well as works off of Chico’s latest vivacious albums: Revelation and Euphoric (Joyous Shout!).
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. According to Jazz Improv NY, “he sounds more creative and artistic than ever.”
WHEN: Sunday, November 17 @ 7:15PM + Sunday, December 15 @ 7:15PM
WHERE: DROM, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th St), 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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Chico Hamilton : Euphoria
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Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 3pm Britten 100 - Noye’s Fludde City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Tickets: Free BBC Scottish with members of the BBC SSO, RCS Junior Conservatoire and soloists
Martyn Brabbins conductor
In this special concert performance and recording for BBC Radio 3, members of the BBC SSO join forces with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Junior Conservatoire to perform one of Britten's most colourful and engaging works, Noye's Fludde. Offering the audience the chance to join in with several congregational hymns, Britten's telling of Noah and the Ark is a celebration of music-making by young people, amateurs and professionals. Two of the UK's finest young professional singers, Jennifer Johnston and Leigh Melrose play the leading roles and the Voice of God is portrayed by the celebrated Scottish actress, Siobhan Redmond.
Benjamin Britten : Noye's Fludde
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 2pm Americana BBC Hoddinott Hall Cardiff Wales
Tickets: £9-£12 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Eric Stern
Clarinet Mark Simpson
The aerial acrobatics of two eagles, soaring and tumbling in the air, inspired Ned Rorem’s Eagles, and its bright, athletic energy also permeates David Diamond’s Rounds. John Adams’ clarinet concerto, Gnarly Buttons, is an affectionate tribute to his clarinettist father. Hear it next to Roy Harris’ richly humanistic Ninth Symphony.
Ned Rorem : Eagles John Adams : Gnarly Buttons David Diamond : Rounds for String Orchestra Roy Harris : Symphony No 9
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20 Dec
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 7.30pm Discovering Britten Nottingham Royal Concert Hall Nottingham Royal Centre Theatre Square, Nottingham NG1 5ND United Kingdom
Tickets: From £11 Paul Daniel conductor
Tom Randle tenor
Stephen Johnson presenter
BBC Philharmonic
The dominant figure in British musical life for a large part of the twentieth century, Benjamin Britten was one of the world's most prolific composers. Although in many ways an outsider figure, his extraordinary fluency and versatility meant that his distinctive voice was heard in opera houses, concert halls, theatres, cathedrals and schools, as well as on radio and in film.
This concert marks Britten's centenary with an exploration of his unique soundworld, with two of his best-loved operas and one of his most original and compelling orchestral works, the Sinfonia da Requiem.
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by broadcaster Stephen Johnson for this accessible guide to Britten's music, including live orchestral extracts, before a complete performance of all three works.
Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes: Passacaglia Benjamin Britten : Symphonic Suite from Gloriana Benjamin Britten : Sinfonia da Requiem
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20 Dec
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at SATYAGRAHA English National Opera London Coliseum United Kingdom
ENO
A huge success at its London premiere in 2007 and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the following year, Philip Glass's operatic masterpiece returns to ENO. Satyagraha is a mesmerising musical meditation on Mahatma Gandhi's early years in South Africa and his spiritual progress towards the concept of nonviolent protest.
Performances: 20th Nov-8th Dec
One of the most visually spectacular productions of recent decades, Satyagraha is instilled with theatrical flair by the award-winning director designer partnership of Improbable's Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.
Returning to the roles they created in 2007 and reprised in 2009 are Alan Oke as Gandhi and Janis Kelly as Mrs Naidoo. Satyagraha is conducted by Stuart Stratford.
A collaboration with Improbable. Co-produced by ENO and the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Philip Glass : Satyagraha
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21 Dec
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22 Dec
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Friday, November 22, 2013 at 6pm Benjamin Britten’s Friday Afternoons Jerwood Hall London United Kingdom
Tickets: Free
Join some of LSO Discovery’s younger participants as they explore Benjamin Britten’s Friday Afternoons, a set of twelve songs written for school children. Part of a national initiative by Aldeburgh Music to encourage as many young people as possible to sing the songs on what would have been Britten’s 100th birthday.
The short and witty songs were written for the composer’s schoolmaster brother and the boys of Clive House preparatory school, Prestatyn – a school in which choir practice and singing lessons regularly took place on a Friday afternoon.
Benjamin Britten : Friday Afternoons
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22 Dec
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Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7.30pm Britten 100: Centenary Concert 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: £20 CBSO Chorus
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Children’s Chorus
Simon Halsey conductor
David Goode organ
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Translated Daughter, come down and startle / Composing mortals with immortal fire.’
Britten’s originality never blazed more brightly than when it was most firmly rooted in the English choral tradition. One hundred years to the day since Britten was born, Simon Halsey directs the CBSO’s choruses in some of Britten’s most striking inspirations, including the inimitable Rejoice in the Lamb and the Hymn to St Cecilia on St Cecilia’s Day no less: music to leave you stirred, beguiled and thoroughly entertained.
The CBSO is the resident orchestra of Symphony Hall.
6.15pm Free pre-concert talk: Britten at 100. CBSO chorus director Simon Halsey offers an expert perspective on Britten’s choral music.
Benjamin Britten : Jubilate in C Benjamin Britten : Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Benjamin Britten : 3 Two-Part Songs Benjamin Britten : Friday Afternoons Benjamin Britten : Hymn to St Cecilia Benjamin Britten : Missa Brevis Benjamin Britten : Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria Benjamin Britten : Rejoice in the Lamb
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23 Dec
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Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 7pm Britten's Albert Herring Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £12-£40 Steuart Bedford conductor
Christine Brewer Lady Billows
Gaynor Keeble Florence Pike
Gillian Keith Miss Wordsworth
Roderick Williams Mr Gedge
Adrian Thompson Mr Upfold
Matthew Rose Superintendent Budd
Marcus Farnsworth Sid
Andrew Staples Albert Herring
Kitty Whately Nancy
Catherine Wyn-Rogers Mrs Herring
Kenneth Richardson director
BBCSO
Albert Herring is the brightest, breeziest and wittiest of all Britten’s operas. A delightful chamber piece that follows the fortunes of down-trodden young simpleton Albert Herring, who is put forward by the grotesque village worthies to be ‘King of May’ because the local girls have all disgraced themselves. Young lovers Sid and Nancy spike his drink on May Day and enjoy the chaos that ensues, when he escapes humiliation and his mother’s clutches. Britten expert Steuart Bedford conducts a fabulous cast, including Christine Brewer as Lady Billows, Gillian Keith as Miss Wordsworth, Roderick Williams as Mr Gedge and rising star Andrew Staples as Albert himself.
Semi-staging
Benjamin Britten : Albert Herring
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23 Dec
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Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 11am Britten Centenary Weekend: Centenary Family Concert Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Tickets: £14, £20 Andrew Gourlay conductor
Youth Choirs from Suffolk
For children of all ages, was there ever a better musical guide than Benjamin Britten? Whether playing, singing or listening to his pieces, he unlocks the lid of the classical music treasure chest. The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents a selection of his wonderful music for young people in a one hour concert for all the family.
Featuring his last ever piece (written for Suffolk schoolchildren), some fizzing arrangements of Rossini tunes and his famous guide to the family of orchestral instruments, the concert also includes four brand new choral songs written for the Britten centenary by professional and talented teenage composers. What better way to celebrate the music of the talented Suffolk schoolboy who turned out to be one of best and most famous of all English composers?
Benjamin Britten : Welcome Ode Benjamin Britten : Soirées Musicales Benjamin Britten : The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
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23 Dec
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Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 07:30 pm Melodia Women's Choir 'Visions of Peace' 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 adv. students and seniors) Cynthia Powell, Conductor
Taisiya Pushkar, piano
Rita Costanzi, harp
Barbara Merjan, percussion
Transfiguration Quintet
Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC led by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell opens its eleventh season with 'Visions of Peace,' a bold and irrepressible holiday program centered on a Melodia reprise performance of Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols.” Composed for women's voices and harp in 1942, “A Ceremony of Carols” is one of Britten’s most beloved works, resonant for its purity of spirit and sense of hope and joy. It is a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the English composer, born on November 22, 1913, and celebrated around the world through Britten 100 events.
In atmospheric complement to Britten’s piece, “Seven Part-Songs for Female Voices and Strings,” by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) is an ethereal and deeply haunting work set to the poetry of Robert Bridges (1844-1930). In perfect counterpoint is Paul Csonka’s (1905-1995) sensuous Spanish-language piece “Concierto de Navidad,” rarely performed settings of three Spanish Christmas carols sparked by the rhythms of Cuba.
“This concert is eclectic, but will come together beautifully,” said Powell. “Holst is a natural to pair with Britten - they both had a profound appreciation for great poetry. And Paul Csonka’s ‘Concierto de Navidad’ is a gem that will lead into several popular tunes in jazz samba style, arranged for our instrumental forces.”
Performing throughout the concert will be award-winning pianist Taisiya Pushkar (www.taisiyapushkar.com), accomplished harpist Rita Costanzi (www.ritacostanzi.com), percussionist Barbara Merjan, and the Transfiguration String Quintet.
Benjamin Britten : A Ceremony of Carols Gustav Holst : Seven Part-Songs for Female Voices and Strings Paul Csonka : Concierto de Navidad - - : Arrangement of popular samba songs
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24 Dec
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Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 4:00 Pre-concert talk, 5:00 Concert Thanksgiving - Present Music Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist 812 N. Jackson St. United States 414-271-0711 http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/thanksgiving-2013.aspx newmusic@presentmusic.org
Tickets: Best tickets - $35, Good tickets - $25, Bargain tickets - $15, Student discount 50% Present Music's newly formed vocal ensemble will be joined by choirs and singers from Arrowhead High School, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Pius XI High School, Voces Punica from Carthage College, and visiting composer and performer, Caroline Shaw.Also join in the opening and closing songs by the Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group.
Caroline Shaw : Sarabande, Fly Away I & Fly Away III, Punctum, and Contico delle creature
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24 Dec
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Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 3:00 pm Melodia Women's Choir 'Visions of Peace' West End Collegiate Church West End Ave. at 77th St United States http://www.westendchurch.org
Tickets: $20 advance; $25 door; $15 adv. students / seniors Cynthia Powell, conductor
Taisiya Pushkar, piano
Rita Costanzi, harp
Barbara Merjan, percussion
Transfiguration String Quintet
Brown Paper Tickets at www.melodiawomenschoir.org or at (800) 838-3006
Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC led by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell opens its eleventh season with 'Visions of Peace,' a bold and irrepressible holiday program centered on a Melodia reprise performance of Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols.” Composed for women's voices and harp in 1942, “A Ceremony of Carols” is one of Britten’s most beloved works, resonant for its purity of spirit and sense of hope and joy. It is a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the English composer, born on November 22, 1913, and celebrated around the world through Britten 100 events.
In atmospheric complement to Britten’s piece, “Seven Part-Songs for Female Voices and Strings,” by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) is an ethereal and deeply haunting work set to the poetry of Robert Bridges (1844-1930). In perfect counterpoint is Paul Csonka’s (1905-1995) sensuous Spanish-language piece “Concierto de Navidad,” rarely performed settings of three Spanish Christmas carols sparked by the rhythms of Cuba.
“This concert is eclectic, but will come together beautifully,” said Powell. “Holst is a natural to pair with Britten - they both had a profound appreciation for great poetry. And Paul Csonka’s ‘Concierto de Navidad’ is a gem that will lead into several popular tunes in jazz samba style, arranged for our instrumental forces.”
Performing throughout the concert will be award-winning pianist Taisiya Pushkar (www.taisiyapushkar.com), accomplished harpist Rita Costanzi (www.ritacostanzi.com), percussionist Barbara Merjan, and the Transfiguration String Quintet.
Benjamin Britten : A Ceremony of Carols Gustav Holst : Seven Part-Songs for Female Voices and Strings Paul Csonka : Concierto de Navidad - - : Arrangement of popular samba songs
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25 Dec
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26 Dec
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 8pm UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica - Norwegian Requiem LSO St Luke's, London 161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/ admin@lso.co.uk
Tickets: £10-£22 Arve Henriksen trumpet
Ståle Storløkken organ
LSO St Luke’s Community Choir
Choralia: Wells Cathedral Girls’ Choir
Christopher Finch conductor
Commissioned by the Norway’s Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir for their 20th anniversary, this moving Requiem features jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen with organ, girls’ choir and community choir. Loosely based on the requiem mass, Andrew Smith’s piece is a reflection on the tragic massacre of 22 July 2011 on Utøya in Norway. The first half will feature a duo from Arve Henriksen and keyboard player Ståle Storløkken.
Andrew Smith : Requiem
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29 Dec
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Friday, November 29, 2013 at NOTATIONS – A film by Vicki Bennett with a live score from Jaap Blonk and Philip Jeck Cafe Oto, London 22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL United Kingdom
Tickets: £8/£10
Sound And Music and Tusk Music are delighted to announce this tour of Vicki Bennett’s film-collage-as-visual-score Notations, to be soundtracked by a unique combination of leading improvising artists at each event.
Notations has been created by Vicki from hundreds of different film clips, where the content conceptually or literally portrays different kinds of ‘gestures’ or ‘instructions’ to be read by the improvising artists on stage as a visual score.
To soundtrack Notations, an impressive international cast of improvisers has been recruited and, as each show features a different combination of artists, every performance will be completely unique. The artists involved are Bill Orcutt, Rhodri Davies, M.C. Schmidt (Matmos), Philip Jeck, Jaap Blonk, Steve Noble, Wobbly, Mark Sanders, Tomomi Adachi, Yoni Silver and Jennifer Walshe.
Contemporary Composers : Notations
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30 Dec
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Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 7pm CBSO Bach to the Future 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: £18.50 - £42 plus transaction fee City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto director / violin
Vibrant, colourful, and buzzing with energy: the American minimalist music of John Adams and Steve Reich has swept through contemporary culture like a blast of pure oxygen.
But there’s nothing minimalist about its emotional power, and in this life-affirming programme directed by the inspirational Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, it’s the perfect complement to two of Bach’s most tuneful masterpieces. Three masters speak to each other across three centuries: this is music to refresh heart and soul in equal measure.
5.45pm Free pre-concert talk. Violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto introduces tonight’s novel programme – in conversation with the CBSO’s Simon Webb.
Steve Reich : Triple Quartet J.S Bach : Violin Concerto in E major Steve Reich : Violin Phase J.S. Bach : Brandenburg Concerto No 3 John Adams : Shaker Loops
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30 Dec
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Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 11am Captain Blood’s Revenge Glyndebourne Glyndebourne, Lewes, BN8 5UU United Kingdom +44 (0)1273 815000 http://glyndebourne.com info@glyndebourne.com
Salty Sue Emma Carrington
Raggy Sam Hal Cazalet
Captain Blood Richard Wiegold
Billy Bone Peter Brathwaite
Piano Berrak Dyer
Violin Helena Nicholls
Double bass Roger McCann
Accordion Karen Street
Bold, boisterous and bags of fun, Captain Blood’s Revenge combines adventure, mystery and a bit of spookiness in a tale of buccaneering high jinks that we can all join in.
As if Salty Sue doesn’t have enough to cope with as landlady of The Blasted Bilge Rat, a rowdy harbourside inn, her daughter Pegatty is a real piratical handful and Pegatty’s father, the fearsome former pirate Billy Bone, has vanished on a dangerous quest. No wonder Sue would rather swap the high seas for the high Cs in her secret ambition to be a singer. The rollicking regulars at Sue’s inn include a band of mariner musicians, an evil-looking sailor with a knife in his back – and us, the audience.
Music by Lynne Plowman
Libretto by Martin Riley
Performances for Schools
As part of our Performances for Schools programme this autumn, Captain Blood's Revenge will be touring across the country to give a special dedicated performance to pupils in years 3 & 4. Beginning at Glyndebourne on 28 & 29th November, the production will move on to the Norwich Playhouse, the Marlowe Studio in Canterbury, The Stables in Milton Keynes and The New Cygnet Theatre in Exeter.
Lynne Plowman : Captain Blood’s Revenge
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 7.30pm LSO on Film: Celebrating the music of Patrick Doyle Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10-£37 Frank Strobel conductor
Janis Kelly soprano
Appearances by Derek Jacobi and Emma Thompson
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
A 60th birthday celebration of film composer Patrick Doyle, featuring a selection of his film scores, including Hamlet, Henry V, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Eragon, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the world premiere of his score for Jack Ryan.
Iconic movie soundtracks performed in celebration of Patrick Doyle’s 60th year as one of the UK’s most successful film composers – live, up close and more exhilarating than ever before.
Patrick Doyle : Various
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 8pm Timbre Tantrum' - Composers Concordance's 3rd Annual Festival DiMenna Center Mary Flagler Cary Hall 450 West 37th Street, NYC United States http://www.oslmusic.org/dimenna-center/
Tickets: Various Glen Velez, Lukas Ligeti and Peter Jarvis
ArtBeat
Composers Concordance's ‘Timbre Tantrum’ Festival opens with a ‘bang’:
All-Percussion concert featuring Glen Velez, Lukas Ligeti and Peter Jarvis and original sculpture-percussion by Gorazd Poposki
Sunday, December 1st 2013 at 3:00 PM, followed by a wine reception
The Dimenna Center, Benzaquen Hall
(between 9th & 10th Avenue), NYC
Monday, December 2nd 2013 7pm – ArtBeat (repeat of program)
lecture-demonstration at 6pm
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road, Wayne, NJ, FREE
Third annual festival produced by Composers Concordance (“enterprising new music organization” - NYTimes) has an innovative approach: each concert focuses on a specific timbre.
The festival opener, entitled 'ArtBeat' features percussion instruments in a program with 4-time Grammy winner Glen Velez, as well as the acclaimed Lukas Ligeti and Peter Jarvis. It will held at DiMenna Center on December 1st at 3pm, followed by a reception. The repeat of the program at William Paterson University on December 2nd will include a pre-concert lecture demonstration on frame-drumming and overtone singing by Glen Velez.
In addition to the mono-timbral nature of each concert on the festival, a few of them, including ArtBeat have a collaborative-interdisciplinary nature.
ArtBeat includes original sculpture-percussion by Gorazd Poposki made specifically for this event.
Each percussionist will present a 20 - 25 minute solo set of their own repertoire. The percussionists will then join together to perform a suite written for them by Dan Cooper, Partick Grant, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker and Zach Seely, featuring the sculpture-percussion instruments.
The instruments will be on the display at Gallery MC (www.GalleryMC.org), at 549 West 52nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in NYC), November 16th - 31st.
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for more information, please contact:
Composers Concordance, phone: 212-203-6163
e-mail: info@composersconcordance.com
For more information about the ‘Timbre Tantrum’ Festival visit:
http://composersconcordance.wix.com/2013-14season#!tt-festival/cj5l
Gene Pritsker : Context Dan Cooper : Tba
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 2pm Afternoon on 3: The Great American Songbook The Mermaid Puddle Dock Blackfriars, London EC4V 3DB United Kingdom
Kitty Whately soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth conductor
Join the BBC Concert Orchestra, their Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth and BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist Kitty Whately as they celebrate the Great American Songbook.
Hear avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor George Antheil's ‘American' Symphony alongside Aaron Copland's popular suite from his music to Appalachian Spring and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's orchestral version of the Lilliburlero Variations.
Kitty Whately joins the orchestra to perform favourites from the Great American Songbook including songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern from Carousel, The King and I, Kiss Me Kate and Show Boat.
Georges Antheil : Symphony No.3 'American' Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring: Suite Richard Rodney Bennett : Lilliburlero Variations
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Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 7.30pm Rolf Hind, piano Barbican, Milton Concert Hall Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS, UK United Kingdom tickets@barbican.org.uk
Tickets: £15 Rolf Hind, piano
The Guildhall School's series of exclusive performances by senior professors and their colleagues gives public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country's finest musicians perform in the stunning new Milton Court Concert Hall.
Per Nørgård : Turn Rolf Hind : A single hair, a jasmine petal, seven mattresses, a pea John Adams : Phrygian Gates Mark Simpson : Barkham Fantasy Helmut Lachenmann : Serynade
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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 2pm Studio Concert: Gershwin & Bernstein BBC Maida Vale Studios, London Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London United Kingdom 02085761227
Tickets: Free Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Martin Roscoe piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a feast of all-American works from the twentieth century. The overture for Barber’s first work for orchestra, The School for a Scandal, reflecting Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic play, opens the concert with a flourish. Premiered in 1933, the work won Barber a Bearns Prize from Columbia University as well as instant national recognition.
Two giants of the American stage also feature here. Pianist Martin Roscoe joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s playful and melodious Piano Concerto, which was published just a year after Rhapsody in Blue, in 1925. The inimitable dances from Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story complete the programme in style, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Samuel Barber : The School for Scandal – Overture George Gershwin : Piano Concerto Leonard Bernstein : West Side Story - Symphonic Dances
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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8pm Haas: in vain Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 08700 606 096 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £10/£20 Emilio Pomàrico conductor
London Sinfonietta
“How to describe it? An astonishing work of art that has become a cult wherever it is played. One of the first great masterpieces of the C21st.”
Sir Simon Rattle
Premiered in 2000 and now receiving its much-awaited premiere in London, Haas’ in vain is an extraordinary work of contradictions and juxtapositions, exploring a heightened sensory world where darkness and light collide. Written in protest to the rise of the far-right Freedom Party in the 1999 Austrian elections, in vain hints at a frightening world where dark, unnatural forces are at work. As familiar harmonies meet microtonal systems, Haas evokes an otherworldly realm that oscillates between the past and the present, between clarity and dystopia. Performed partly in complete darkness, in vain transforms the concert hall into a mysterious new landscape, where you must trust your ears and relinquish your sight.
Georg Friedrich Haas : in vain
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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7.30pm Juanjo Mena and Colin Currie Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Manchester M1 5HA United Kingdom 44 (0) 161 907 9000 http://bridgewater-hall.co.uk box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £35 - £10 Juanjo Mena Conductor
Colin Currie Percussion
It's all about rhythm. Musical revolutions in Manchester have always started on the dancefloor, and whether it's the punchy latin rhythms of Turina's flamboyant ballet, or the young Thomas Adès These Premises Are Alarmed commissioned for the opening of The Bridgewater Hall, Juanjo Mena knows exactly how to get a party started.
John Adams blasts musical theory right out of the classroom in the outrageous Slonimsky's Earbox, percussion virtuoso Colin Currie performs a concerto by our very own HK "Nali" Gruber, and the BBC Philharmonic adventure through the bareback thrills of Ginastera's exuberant cowboy ballet. Hold tight: the future has never sounded so much fun.
Joaquín Turina : Ritmos HK Gruber : Rough Music Thomas Ades : These premises are alarmed John Adams : Slonimsky's Earbox Alberto Ginastera : Estancia
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Starts at midday FESTIVAL-IN-A-DAY Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank, London SE1 United Kingdom 08700 606 096 http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £20 day ticket London Sinfonietta
Falling on the last weekend of Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest Is Noise festival, we bring their story bang up to date with four sets of brand new music from today's most cutting edge composers. Twelve world premieres include major London Sinfonietta commissions from Edmund Finnis and Francisco Coll, alongside UK premieres of works by Rebecca Saunders and Simon Steen-Andersen.
For more information: http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/new-music-show
Contemporary Composers : Various
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 7:30pm Pianist Aleck Karis Performs Late Works of Morton Feldman 12/8 Merkin Concert Hall, The Kaufman Center 129 West 67th Street, NY, NY United States 212.501.3330 http://kaufman-center.org/mch
Tickets: $20 Pianist Aleck Karis
featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).
Pianist Aleck Karis presents a one-night only concert dedicated to late works of the iconoclastic composer Morton Feldman. As an extension of Karis’s latest album Wolpe, Feldman & Webern (Bridge Records), this performance casts the composer in a fresh light by showcasing music written by Feldman’s teacher, Stefan Wolpe, as well as Wolpe’s teacher, Anton Webern. Program opens with solo piano works including Feldman’s Piano and Palais de Mari juxtaposed with Wolpe’s Form, Form IV and Webern’s Piano Variations, culminating with Feldman’s Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello featuring special guest artists Curt Macomber (violin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Chris Finckel (cello).
Morton Feldman : Palais de mari Morton Feldman : Piano Stefan Wolpe : Form Stefan Wolpe : Form IV Anton Webern : Piano Variations Morton Feldman : Piano, Violin, Viola Cello
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Monday, December 9, 2013 at 8pm Trio IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 14€ | 10€ | 5€ In 1944, a year before his death, Bartók composed an immense sonata for violin has no equal since the sonatas by Bach. Song, polyphonic density, large forms. The final Liszt is the opposite of a miniature, of harmonic ambiguity, and of the premonition in 1883 of a tonal world in decomposition.
Three exceptional musicians brought together by the composer Marc Monnet summon these pivotal works around the creation of an unfaithful disciple of Kagel. In his critical passion of electronics, Monnet prefers the rapidity of instrumental gesture to a display of a pirouetting fiction of technology.
Tedi Papavrami violin
François-Frédéric Guy piano
Xavier Phillips cello
IRCAM Computer Music Design Carlo Laurenzi
Franz Liszt : Pensées des morts (extract from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses) Marc Monnet : Trio n°3 Marc Monnet : Imaginary Travel Béla Bartók : Sonata for Solo Violin
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