Lou Rodgers' musical comedy Happy Valentine - at new Opera America Hall on 7th Avenue; Saturday June 22nd

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Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 7:30pm

Golden Fleece LTD presents the delightful HAPPY VALENTINE, a 15-minute, staged musical comedy by Golden Fleece’s own Artistic Director, Lou Rodgers.  In addition, an hour-long, three-singer version of Matthew Harris's three-act opera TESS  (libretto is based on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles) in a concert performance with piano. TESS is a Victorian tragedy about a country girl and her entanglement between two men of the upper class. New York’s Karen Jolicoeur, sings the lead.  Performances are at Opera America’s brand new, beautiful recital hall in New York City.

Saturn Dreams of Mercury and other works in performance this month, by Lawrence Dillon

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 7:00pm

Lawrence Dillon’s Saturn Dreams Lawrence DillonLawrence Dillonof Mercury for string trio will be performed on Wednesday, June 19 at 7:00 PM by members of The Atlantic Ensemble as part of their concert at Truro Meetinghouse, First Congregational Parish, located at 1 First Parish Lane in Truro, Massachusetts. The Atlantic Ensemble's members are: Wei Tsun Chang, violin; Seanad Dunigan Chang, viola; Kirsten Cassel Greer, cello; and Jennifer McGuire, piano

His Broomstick for violin and piano will be performed on Thursday, June 20 at 8:00 PM at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 115 W 7th Street in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of the Charlotte New Music Festival.

The composer writes, “In outlining his second artistic principle – Quickness – Italo Calvino describes himself as “a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury,” an older man predisposed to introversion and melancholy who nonetheless aspires to the speed and agility of the young god in winged sandals. That image tweaked a musical response from, and the result was Saturn Dreams of Mercury.”

Other composers on the June 19 program include Schubert, Beethoven, Mark O’Connor, Michael Kurek and Scott Joplin. The concert is free and open to the public, but donations will be accepted. For more information, visit http://www.firstparishtruro.org/.

Season Finale - League of Composers/ISCM Concert at Miller Theatre - Monday, June 17

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Monday, June 17, 2013 - 8:00pm

Monday June 17th Season Finale Concert: League of Composers/ISCM at Miller Theater - The evening will be hosted by John Schaefer (WNYC) and features live interviews with composers Eve Beglarian, Keith Fitch and Wang Jie.

Conductors: James Baker, Louis Karchin
Soloists: Liang Wang, oboe and Sharon Harms, Soprano

Bruce Adolphe Crossing Broadway (2007)
Eve Beglarian Waiting for Billy Floyd (2010)
Wang Jie * Oboe Concerto for the Genuine Hearts of Sadness (2013)
Elliott Carter Call (2003)
Keith Fitch** In Memory (2013)
Leon Kirchner Lily, version for Soprano & Chamber Ens.(1978)
Guest Speaker: Robert Riggs

The Rose Sonata by Elizabeth Austin featured in recital by Kathleen Dale, June 16th

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Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 2:00pm

Elizabeth R. AustinElizabeth R. AustinPianist Kathleen Dale presents a concert at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, on Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 2pm. The concert will include Bach's Prelude and Fugue #6 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two, 1738-42), Beethoven's Sonata 81a (Les Adieux, 1809), and two Brahms Intermezzos (1893), the second of which provided part of the inspiration for Elizabeth R. Austin's Rose Sonata for Piano and Reciter (2002), which will round out the program.

Ms. Dale was first introduced to Elizabeth Austin's piano sonata through the work of another ACA composer, Michael Slayton, and his book Women of Influence in Contemporary Music published in 2010 by Scarecrow Press. 

Louisa Loveridge Gallas (reciter of poetry) will join the pianist in performing Austin's exquisite sonata, which has at its heart the rich, sensuous opening bar of Brahms' Second Intermezzo. Austin writes, "At certain points throughout the music, a poem about the rose is recited; this text informs the succeeding portion of the music."

The poems recited are by Ingeborg Bachmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Carlos Williams, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

The composer notes regarding her Rose Sonata: “This is the second composition in which I have explored using geometric forms found in the natural world as the basis for an overall musical form. It is an ongoing exploration of the idea of motivic

Lawrence Dillon’s Music Featured at Ravinia Festival by Concert Dance, Inc. on June 6 and 7

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Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 7:30pm
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Friday, June 7, 2013 - 7:30pm

Lawrence Dillon’s The Better Angels of Our Nature for narrator and piano trio will be one of the featured pieces in Concert Dance, Inc.’s Ravinia Festival performances on Thursday, June 6 and Friday, June 7 at 7:30 PM each evening in Bennett Gordon Hall, located in the John D. Harza Building at the southwest corner of Ravinia Park, 200 Ravinia Park Road in Highland Park, Illinois. These performances are presented in cooperation with the 2013 Ruth Page Festival of Dance at Ravinia.

A work inspired by the words of Abraham Lincoln, The Better Angels of Our Nature is based on his personal letters. The Dillon score was one of three winners selected from Ravinia's first composition competition in July 2008, created to spur new works inspired by Lincoln’s words. It has had over forty performances in eleven cities. See a video performance of the work here.

Robert Carl: The Time Keeper - featured article on New Music Box

Robert Carl's office: walls of score pagesRobert Carl's office: walls of score pagesRobert Carl: The Time Keeper, by Molly Sheridan, is the featured article on New Music Box today.  Sheridan interviewed the composer at his home in Hartford, where they discussed Carl's music, and his interest in time, memory, and space. Sheridan calls Carl "a particularly sensitive sonic observer of the world," and refers to the "distinct organic beauty and rich, encompassing depth" of his oeuvre. The composer talks about studying with Jonathan Kramer and about being influenced by Xenakis, as well as the role of global diversity in his music, among many other insights and interests. 

The extraordinary video of interview with performance clips is here:  https://vimeo.com/67353953#

Reinaldo Moya, Mark Thome, Matt Welch: Opera Scenes, Tuesday June 4th at Thalia

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 7:30pm

Scenes from 3 new American operas: Tues. June 4, 2013Scenes from 3 new American operas: Tues. June 4, 2013

Three new operas: Generalissimo by Reinaldo Moya, She: An Opera of Adventure by Mark Thome, and The Three Truths by Matthew Welch. Concert presentations of scenes from these three operas will feature Ensemble 20-21, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and extraordinary singers including Blake Friedman, Mary Mackenkzie, Solange Merdinian, Nicole Pantos, Anne Rhodes, Douglas Williams and many others. Opera Works In Progress is co-sponsored by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, American Composers Alliance and BMI, Asia University Tokyo (Thome), and the Van Lier Fellowship (Moya), and Experiments in Opera (Welch). Symphony Space Thalia at 7:30pm. Box office call 212-864-5400 or Link to online purchase: Tickets $10 advance here.

 

ASJM 2013 Music in Our Time concert features Judith Lang Zaimont, Yehudi Wyner, Gerald Cohen, Gabriel Kahane, and more

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 3:00pm

MUSIC IN OUR TIME: 2013 presented by The American Society for Jewish Music & The American Jewish Historical Society

Gerald Cohen: Grneta Variations for 2 clarinets and piano

Gabriel Kahane: Come On All You Ghosts for Baritone and String Quartet (poetry by Matthew Zapruder)

Joel Mandelbaum: The Dybbuk (opera excerpts) 

Yehudi Wyner: Tanz and Maissele for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

Judith Lang Zaimont: Piano Trio No. 1 "Russian Summer" 

Performed by the Grneta Ensemble, Cantor Joshua Breitzer and Artists from Mannes College of Music

 Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets: (212) 868-4444    www.smarttix.com

Ray Luedeke's My Life with Pablo Neruda, premieres with Voice Afire Pocket Opera Co.

Scene from My Life with Pablo Neruda: Ray Luedeke, composerScene from My Life with Pablo Neruda: Ray Luedeke, composerLast weekend, My Life with Pablo Neruda, a Pocket Opera-Cabaret that is "compelling, intense, and seductive," was celebrated by an evening of Chilean wine and performances. Performed at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center and presented by Voice Afire, the event celebrated Pablo Neruda, a Chilean social activist and poet. The chamber opera, composed by Ray Luedeke can be seen as portraying one of the greatest love stories of the past century, with a special live performance showcasing scenes from My Life with Pablo Neruda, which is based on and inspired by the poetry collection, 100 Love Sonnets. The evening served as a fundraiser for the production of the show.

Different Trains: Music of Steve Reich, Beth Wiemann, and John Zorn - May 23 - Portland, ME

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Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 8:00pm

Following last October's fantastic collaboration with Portland Chamber Music Festival, SPACE Gallery and PCMF are teaming up again to co-present another adventurous program of contemporary chamber music. The spring concert features a world premiere by Maine composer Beth Wiemann, titled Minor blasts, some flurries, for string quartet and video; as well as two iconic late 20th century works: John Zorn's Cat O' Nine Tails (Tex Avery directs the Marquis de Sade) and Steve Reich's Different Trains.

Performers include violinists Jennifer Elowitch and Gabriela Diaz, violist Jonathan Bagg and cellist Joshua Gordon. 

Made possible in part through support from A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts.

Brooklyn New Music Collective presents music by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sean Hickey, Penderecki, and many others, Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, May 31st

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Friday, May 31, 2013 - 8:00pm
Brooklyn New Music Collective - final concert of the season, Friday, May 31 at 8pm at the Firehouse Space, curated by Michael Rose. Tickets $10/$15.

Scott L. Miller, McKnight Composer Fellowship recipient for 2013

Scott L. Miller: 2013 McKnight Fellowship WinnerScott L. Miller: 2013 McKnight Fellowship WinnerACA composer Scott L. Miller has been named a McKnight Composer Fellow for 2013. One of the biggest and most competitive awards for composers in Minnesota, this year's winners are: Randy Bauer, Scott Miller, Joshua Musikantow and David Evan Thomas. The unrestricted cash award ($25,000) is granted to composer winners who live and work in Minnesota, have made a significant artistic contribution to their community and who plan to continue their artistic growth in Minnesota. 

Miller's new work, Consortia received its premiere last weekend at Studio Z in St. Paul. Composed for interactive-electronics and unspecified ensemble, it was performed by the combined forces of the Flying Forms Baroque Ensemble and Zeitgeist, as part of the concert series Early Inspirations, featuring performances of current music inspired by music of the distant past.

Scott Miller is a composer of electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber, choral and multimedia works frequently performed at venues and in exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. His music has been described as 'not for the faint-hearted listener' (Juliet Patterson, mnartists.org) and 'inspir[ing] real hope & optimism for the future of electroacoustic music.' (Simon Cummings, 5against4.com). Known for his interactive electroacoustic chamber music and

Bibiena Art Festival in Piacenza Italy features music and lecture by Christopher Shultis, June 1 and 2.

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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Christopher ShultisChristopher ShultisThe_Bibiena Art Festival 2013, in Piacenza Italy, will feature music by Christopher Shultis on June 1st, including Songs of Love and Longing for Soprano and Piano; and Devisadero, for solo piano, as well as a lecture by the composer, called "The Dialectics of Experimentalism" on June 2nd.

Shultis’ publications  include "'A Living Oxymoron': Norman O. Brown's Criticism of John Cage," for Perspectives of New Music (2006); "Saying Nothing: John Cage and Henry David Thoreau’s Aesthetics of Co-Existence," Tijdschrift voor Musiektheorie (1998), which was translated into German and published in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik  (2007),  "Cage and Europe," for the Cambridge Companion to John Cage (2002); “Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the Intentionality of Non-Intention” for The Musical Quarterly (1995), and “Cage in Retrospect: A Review Essay,” The Journal of Musicology (1996) which won a 1997 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

Ross Bauer's ECHOMETRY for percussion quartet - Tues. May 28th - Talujon - at Dimenna Center

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 8:00pm

TalujonTalujonTalujon plays four new works for percussion quartet:

Echometry - Ross Bauer
Gravity - Mark Mellits
New Work - Steve Ricks
Dream Landscape - Amy Williams

May 28, 2013;  8 PM at the beautiful DiMenna Center for Classical Music. 450 W 37th Street New York, NY.


Described by the New York Times as an ensemble possessing an "edgy, unflagging energy", Talujon has been mesmerizing audiences since 1990. Talujon is thoroughly committed to the expansion of the contemporary percussion repertoire as well as the education and diversification of its worldwide audience. Over the past 20 years, Talujon has commissioned dozens of new works for percussion quartet.

Recent Talujon commissions include quartets by Alvin Lucier, Henry Threadgill, Ralph Shapey, Wayne Peterson, Julia Wolfe, Ushio Torikai, Louis Karchin, Eric Moe, Steve Ricks and Chien Yin Chen. Based in New York, the group’s performances have included collaborations with Steve Reich, James Tenney, Chou Wen Chung, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Meredith Monk and Tan Dun at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony

Jack Sutte premieres new work for solo trumpet by Brian Fennelly - May 17th, Cleveland

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Friday, May 17, 2013 - 9:00pm

Jack Sutte, trumpetJack Sutte, trumpetCleveland Orchestra’s Gordon Square Residency this year from May 11 through May 17. Friday, May 17, at 9 p.m. – Survival Kit at 78th Street Studios, 1300 W. 78th St. – Suite 303. Cleveland Orchestra musicians Scott Dixon, bass, Jack Sutte, trumpet, Joshua Smih, flute & Jacob Nissly, percussion. Solos and duos - including the latest work by BRIAN FENNELLY, "Distant Call" for solo muted trumpet or flugelhorn.

The concert is part of the inaugural neighborhood residency of The Cleveland Orchestra, which will find the Orchestra and members of Severance Hall ensembles engaging the community in numerous activities ranging from performances to a soccer match in the Gordon Square Arts District on Cleveland’s West Side from May 11 through May 17.

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