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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.
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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 Aug
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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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Thursday, March 1, 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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1 Sep
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Thursday, March 1, 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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