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5 Feb
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 3:00 pm
PIXELIANCE, for flute, harp, & marimba PERI MAUER, Composer
St Mark's in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, NY, 10003
United States
Tickets: $20 suggested donation; Students FREE
New York Composers Circle Concert of New Music
PIXELIANCE, for flute, harp, & marimba [2011] (world premiere)
PERI MAUER, COMPOSER
Mary Barto, flute
Mike Truesdell, marimba
Ashley Jackson, harp
Concert Program:
http://nycomposerscircle.org/events/event/concert-st-mark%E2%80%99s-in-the-bowery/
Peri Mauer : PIXELIANCE, for flute, harp, & marimba
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11 Feb
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Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 4:00pm -5:30pm
Organist Gail Archer Presents “An American Idyll”
R.C. Church of St. Agnes
143 W. 43rd Street
United States
Tickets: FREE
Internationally renowned star concert organist Gail Archer celebrates the distinctive voice of American organ music in An American Idyll - a five-concert series touring the churches and synagogues of New York City. Performing a colorful collection of organ music by 20th and 21st century American composers, Archer is slated to premiere two commissioned works: organ preludes He Leadeth me! O Blessed Tho’t!, Be Thou My Vision, and Eternal Father, Strong to Save by Columbia alumnus Hayes Biggs; and a new work (title TBA) by Pulitzer-prize finalist and Vassar College professor Harold Meltzer. Hailed for championing contemporary organ music by female composers, Archer will also feature works by Joan Tower, Judith Lang Zaimont, Pamela Decker, Claire Shore, Libby Larsen, Emma Lou Diemer, and Kim D. Sherman.
www.gailarcher.com
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15 Feb
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 8pm
NONCLASSICAL Milwaukee
The MOCT
240 E. Pittsburg Ave.
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/nonclassical.aspx
laura@presentmusic.org
Tickets: $7
Gabriel Prokofiev
Joby Burgess
Peter Gregson
DJ Madhatter (Jordan Lee)
Unlooped String Ensemble
London-based composer, producer, and founder of the NONCLASSICAL record label and club night, Gabriel Prokofiev, returns to Milwaukee for a special NONCLASSICAL Milwaukee performance featuring fellow British musicians Joby Burgess, percussion, and Peter Gregson, cello. They will be joined locally by DJ Madhatter and the artist collective/string quartet, Unlooped Versus Dilla, lead by DJ Tarik AKA The Architect at The MOCT on Wednesday, February 15 in Milwaukee. More info at: http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/nonclassical.aspx.
Gabriel Prokofiev : Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra
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15 Feb
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7pm
The Tyranny of Fun
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 concession / £6
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor/Piano: Ryan Wigglesworth
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Electronics: Nye Parry
Richard Baker is one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. Commissioned through BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, Baker’s new work for ensemble and electronics addresses the theme of ‘irrational exuberance’; taking in Ravel’s death-driven waltzes, and the sounds of 80s New York disco; with live electronics that Baker has developed together with his colleague, composer/sound artist Nye Parry.
BCMG premiered Causton’s Chamber Symphony in 2009 and this performance will be the Group’s first since Causton revised the piece following its premiere.
Giving context to these works are three pieces from the 1940s and 50s. Scored for unorthodox percussion instruments, John Cage’s Second Construction is one of a series of three works composed between 1939-42, while Cage was touring the west coast of America with a percussion ensemble.
Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds), for piano and an orchestra of winds and percussion, is an enchanting sound fantasy containing imitations of no fewer than 40 different birdsongs or calls. Pianist Nicolas Hodges, the soloist for the Messiaen, is joined by Ryan Wigglesworth to open the concert with Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two Pianos.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6-6.30pm with Richard Baker, open to all ticket holders.
Igor Stravinsky : Sonata for 2 pianos
John Cage : Second Construction
Richard Baker : The Tyranny of Fun
Richard Causton : Chamber Symphony
Olivier Messiaen : Oiseaux Exotiques
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1 Mar
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Thursday, March 01, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Good Sports
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street (DUMBO), Brooklyn, NY
United States
718-222-8500
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/
info@galapagosartspace.com
Tickets: $15 online, $25 at the door
American Modern Ensemble
Pitchers and catchers report. These words inspire excitement; for millions, the beginnings of baseball spring training are the first sign of the waning of winter, the beginnings of spring. Artists are no different. Sports fascinate musicians and composers just as everybody else, and offer a wealth of intriguing compositional opportunities. AME gathers some of the best sports-inspired new music by some of America’s best composers. Concert includes work for piano and baseball mitt, one hundred ping-pong balls and a song cycle about Mike Piazza. Channel your inner sports fan and root for your favorite composers!
Elliot Carter : Gra
Annie Gosfield : October 5, 1941
Stephen Gorbos : Football Season Is Over
Robert Paterson : Stepping Into The Batter's Box
Roger Zare : Dark And Stormy Night
Meyer Kupferman : Triple Play
Rob Smith : Sprint
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1 Mar
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Thursday, March 01, 2012 at 7.30pm
The Death of Klinghoffer
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
Following highly successful productions of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, ENO presents the London stage premiere of the American composer’s controversial ‘docu-opera’ about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.
Alice Goodman’s eloquently poetic and dispassionately even-handed libretto mixes Biblical and Koranic references with real and imagined accounts of what happened on board. Adams’s intensely expressive score captures the private thoughts and emotions of individuals caught up in the complexities of a political and religious conflict that still defies solution. More of a meditation in the style of a Bach Passion than a conventional operatic drama, the result is an utterly compelling and unique piece of theatre.
Tom Morris, co-director of the National Theatre’s War Horse, makes his opera directing debut, while Baldur Brönnimann, who conducted ENO’s Lost Highway and Le Grand Macabre, applies his contemporary expertise to what many regard as Adams’s finest opera.
NB: Additional performances on 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th March
John Adams : The Death of Klinghoffer
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2 Mar
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Friday, March 02, 2012 at 7.30pm
BCMG Chamber Players
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc
Flute: Marie-Christine Zupancic
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
Piano: Malcolm Wilson
Violin: Alexandra Wood
Cello: Ulrich Heinen
Despite its chamber scale – this programme contains an embarrassment of riches, a lucky dip of superbly crafted chamber pieces from the last 30 years, full of contrast, some tiny, some substantial, performed by a crack quintet of BCMG soloists.
Some of these works are memorials or tributes; many of them use forms or techniques from music of the past – fugues, chaconnes, canons, inventions; some come from a fascination with past composers. Knussen’s Upon One Note distorts the rhythms and pitches of Purcell’s five part fantasia; Barry’s two minute Aeneas and Dido revisits Purcell’s opera as the composer “felt that Aeneas needed to be given his due”; Machaut can be found lurking behind Birtwistle’s Double Hocket; whilst Philip Cashian’s blistering Caprichos explores the dark, nightmarish world depicted in Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos etchings.
The performance of Aldo Clementi’s Berceuse is a tribute in itself – to the last of the great Italian 20th century modernists, who died almost a year ago to the day – 3 March 2011.
The Adès studies condense and refashion music from his acclaimed opera The Tempest into a single movement for four instruments. The result is a kaleidoscopic succession of musical portraits –each depicting a shipwrecked character on Prospero’s island – Antonio, Ferdinand, Alonso and Gonzalo.
Oliver Knussen : Upon one note
Gerald Barry : Aeneas and Dido
Colin Matthews : Elegiac Chaconne
Aldo Clementi : Berceuse
Tansy Davies : Undertow
Philip Cashian : Caprichos
Harrison Birtwistle : Double Hocket
Peter Maxwell Davies : Unbroken Circle
John Woolrich : In the Mirrors of Asleep
John Woolrich : In the Mirrors of Asleep
Franco Donatoni : Het
Thomas Ades : Court Studies from the Tempest
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 1.40pm prompt
ENO presents John Cage’s Musicircus
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Celebrating John Cage’s centennial year, and his innovation and philosophy, ENO is the first opera company to create, produce and present the composer’s ‘omnium gatherum’ piece. This exciting free event will take place as part of Music Nation, an official countdown event to the London Festival 2012.
In a promenade experience of spectacular and extraordinary performances throughout the London Coliseum, ENO's Musicircus will feature artists including Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Michael Finnissy alongside ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, the ENO Community Choir, ENO Opera Works singers, and an intriguing collective of professional and amateur talents.
ENO's Musicircus is curated by award winning Proms-commissioned composer Stephen Montague. Montague worked with Cage in Europe for fifteen years, touring with him and premiering several of Cage's works. Visual artist Alex Julyan is Montague's long-term collaborator whose prior projects have included work with Punchdrunk and The Wellcome Trust.
John Cage : Musicircus
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 7:30pm
Present Music Around 30
Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI
United States
Tickets: $15-$35; half price for students
Present Music Ensemble
Chrisal Wagner, dancer
Present Music, Milwaukee’s new music ensemble, will provide the stage for 30 of the brightest, most inventive young composers, musicians, dancers, designers, videographers, and visual artists from Milwaukee and around the country.
Sean Friar : Little Green Pop
Paola Prestini : Spell
Jacob Cooper : Untitled
Patrick Burke : All Together Now
Anna Clyne : Rapture
Missy Mazzoli : Magic with Everyday Objects
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 8.30 pm
Cassandre
Auditorium de Lyon
Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon - 149 rue Garibaldi 69003 Lyon - France
France
+33 (0)4 78 95 95 95
http://www.onl.fr/onl_info/index.htm
Monodrama by Michael Jarrell
Libretto by Christa Wolf
Fanny Ardant narrator
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor Susanna Mälkki
IRCAM Computer Music Design Pierre Charvet
IRCAM Sound Engineer Sébastien Naves
Michael Jarrell : Cassandre
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3 Mar
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3 Mar
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 7.30pm
BBC Philharmonic
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Tickets: £10.00 - £33.50
BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
Life, liberty and big, big tunes! Maybe it’s the raw energy, maybe it’s those swinging rhythms, maybe it’s the sense of ordinary folk doing extraordinary things, but there’s just something about American music and whether we’re hearing the plain-speaking pioneers of Aaron Copland’s Appalachia, or the high-kicking hustlers of Leonard Bernstein’s New York, it’s unmistakable.
Tis The Gift To Be Simple, Somewhere, Mambo!…you already know how they go. So join the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Yutaka Sado, and come share the American dream. As for Chopin’s dreamy First Piano Concerto, if you heard Nobuyuki Tsujii’s remarkable performances with us last season, you’ll already have experienced the almost magical way he communicates with an audience. Expect eloquence, expect fireworks, and expect some truly extraordinary chemistry as he tackles the most romantic concerto by the supreme keyboard poet.
A Journey Through Music event.
Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring - Suite
Frederyk Chopin : Piano Concerto No. 1
Leonard Bernstein : Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Leonard Bernstein : West Side Story - Symphonic Dances
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4 Mar
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4 Mar
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Sunday, March 04, 2012 at 3.00pm - 4.00 pm
Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble at Blackheath Halls
Blackheath Halls
23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ
United Kingdom
020 8463 0100
http://www.blackheathhalls.com
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions
Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble (Panayotis Archontides & Natalie Tsaldarakis, pianists)
Pianists Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides, who form the husband-and-wife piano team Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble, will present a recital for piano four-hands at Blackheath Halls, London on Sunday 4 March, 2012.
The pianists boast many distinctions, including Panayotis’ Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians 2007, and Natalie’s election to membership of the American National Music Honour Society in 1994. The ensemble has performed hundreds of acclaimed concerts in the UK and abroad in such venues as Sibelius Academy, Athenaeum Concert Hall, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St James Piccadilly, St John’s Smith Square, Reform Club, Jacqueline du Pre Music Building (Oxford) etc. The duo has also been featured on Greek radio and TV, as well as on London’s Resonance FM (Sound Out with Carole Finer).
Franz Schubert : Characteristic March op.121 no.1
Franz Schubert : Fantasy in F minor
Claude Debussy : Petite Suite
Alex North : Spartacus
John Williams : Monsignor
Miklos Rozsa : Lydia Suite
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5 Mar
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Monday, March 05, 2012 at 7:30pm
THE HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS 125TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Merkin Concert Hall, The Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street, NY, NY
United States
212.501.3330
http://kaufman-center.org/mch
Tickets: $35
Performing artists will be Alfred Heller (Piano), Richard Miller (Guitar), Naya María Rodríguez-Castiñado (Soprano), Peter Prosser (Cello) and Mollie Nichols (Chorus Conductor).
The Villa-Lobos Music Society, in cooperation with The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, presents The Heitor Villa-Lobos 125th Birthday Anniversary Concer. The Concert features a program of music from a cross-section of the composer’s works for piano, guitar, cello, solo voice and chorus, selected by Dr. Alfred Heller, a friend and protégé of Villa-Lobos.
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Rudepoêma
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Choro Number 1
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Bachianas Brasileiras Number 5
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Bachianas Brasileiras Number 2
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Choros Number 3
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Songs of the Tropical Forest
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Monday, March 05, 2012 at 7:45pm
New Town Concerts Society
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble, amongst our most frequent and welcome visitors over the years, return with a varied programme that highlights the versatility and range of this extraordinary ensemble’s repertoire – from the Horn Quintet, written for the Ensemble by our foremost composer James MacMillan, by way of Brahms at his most romantic to a pinnacle of Dvoøák’s chamber music, his glorious Piano Quintet.
James MacMillan : Horn Quintet
Johannes Brahms : Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40
Antonin Dvorak : Piano Quintet in A, Op.81
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