MUSIC OF H. LESLIE ADAMS, CLEVELAND MUSIC SETTLEMENT - SUNDAY JAN. 20TH

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Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 3:00pm

H. Leslie AdamsH. Leslie AdamsSunday, January 20, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. H. Leslie Adams: "Etude in A Minor" from 26 Etudes for Solo Piano  and "For You There Is No Song" from Five Millay Songs, Robyn Lanier, soloist. Cleveland Music Settlement, 11126 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland, Ohio. This special Martin Luther King Memorial Concert featuring jazz, blues, gospel and classical music performed by Settlement faculty, students, and guest performers is at Glick Recital Hall, Burke mansion. Free and Open to the Public

Gary Schneider's Orchestra for the Next Century to perform Feb. 6th at Merkin Hall

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 7:30pm

Gary Schneider's Orchestra for the Next Century will be performing a concert as part of the 2013 ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring premieres of works by indie-classical composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, Padma Newsome and Shara Worden.  The concert is being hosted by John Schaefer  of WNYC and is being streamed live over Q2 as part of the NEW SOUNDS LIVE series.

February 6, 2013 at 7:30 @ Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th NYC.

Orchestra for the Next Century performs a blend of music from all time periods, with a special emphasis on the very new.  The ensemble will present concerts that are virtuosic in execution, heartfelt in presentation and enthusiastic in performance.

Orchestra for the Next Century is led by award-winning conductor/composer Gary M. Schneider. A prize-winner of the Leopold Stokowski Competition for American Conductors, Schneider is a noted composer, an advocate and interpreter of the music of today, and a critically acclaimed conductor of symphonic, operatic, musical theatre, jazz and third-stream repertoire.

The Portland Conservatory presents music of Elliott Schwartz, January 24th

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 12:00pm

Elliott SchwartzElliott SchwartzThe Portland Conservatory's Noonday Concert series features music by Elliott Schwartz, on Thursday, Jan 24th, 12 noon to 1 pm. The program will consist of Soliloquy I (trumpet solo with electronic extensions); Soliloquy II (clarinet solo); a mid-1960s Romance for bassoon & piano; and Four Mobiles for David (percussion solo & electronic sounds operated by two assistants). Location: the First Parish Church, corner of Congress and Temple Streets, Portland, ME.

Steven Sacco's Book of Whimsy for solo piano - February 26th at Mannes

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 8:00pm

Steven Christopher SaccoSteven Christopher SaccoBook of Whimsy (2012), a series of dedications for solo piano by Steven Sacco, will be performed by David Oei on Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 8pm.  Mannes Faculty Composers; The Concert Hall Mannes College of Music 150 West 85th Street, New York, NY. In three sections of six short episodes each, the composer pays tribute to William Komaiko, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Rebecca La Brecque, Bud Powell, Andrew Thomas, and others.

Richard Brooks upcoming concerts, video interview

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 3:00pm

Richard BrooksRichard BrooksUpcoming concerts and news for composer Richard Brooks:

Feb 13, 2013, 3:00 pm: Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, Ohio State University--presentation on the music of Georg Schoenberg.

Feb 18, 2013, 3:00 pm--same loc as above--performance of Circular Motions for flute, clarinet and piano

Feb 19, 2013, 7:30 pm--Circular Motions performed by Lunatics at Large, ACA Concert during the Composers Now! Festival, Thalia, Symphony Space

Feb 19, 2013, 8 pm--world premiere of Lamentation for cello and piano, New York Composers Circle concert, Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Center

March 15, 2013, 8 pm--world premiere of Sweet Betsy; a Fantasy on an American Folk Song for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, LeFrak Recital Hall, Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY.

Cameron-Wolfe's HERETIC at the "Days of New Music" Festival - December 18, 2012, in Kharkov, Ukraine

Sergey GorkushaSergey GorkushaYoung virtuoso guitarist Sergey Gorkusha performed Richard Cameron-Wolfe's forbiddingly difficult "Heretic" during the festival, which took place in the Chamber Hall of the Kharkov National University of the Arts - displaying formidable technical command of his instrument while singing, speaking, rapping, manically moving around the hall, and confronting the audience. One observer remarked that Gorkusha's performance was a powerful example of Antonin Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty". Cameron-Wolfe plans to bring the artist to New York in 2013, to perform and record the "Heretic".






World premiere of David Froom’s new work for alto saxophone and piano — January 4th at George Mason University

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Friday, January 4, 2013 - 4:30pm

Eliza Garth joins saxophonist Brian Utley in the world premiere of Turn of Events, David Froom’s new work for alto saxophone and piano.  This Brian UtleyBrian Utleyperformance takes place as part of the 36th International Saxophone Symposium, sponsored by the United States Navy Band.

Friday, January 4 at 4:30PM; Harris Theater, George Mason University Center for the Arts, Fairfax, VA; More about the International Saxophone Symposium.

Brian Utley will preview the work on Feb 2 at the Blair School of Vanderbilt University.

Additional performances will be presented at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on Friday, Feb 15, 8pm, St. Mary's College of Maryland (with Eliza Garth, piano) (featured together with Perry Goldstein’s Heaven), and again on March 16, 2:30, Middle Tennessee State (Murfreesboro), NASA Region VII Conference (NASA = North American Saxophone Alliance).

 

Glenn Stallcop in concert with Joe Corral and Jan Simiz, Feb. 24th at Orangewood Presbyterian Church in Phoenix

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Sunday, February 24, 2013 - 4:00pm

Glenn StallcopGlenn StallcopA concert of original music and improvisation by Glenn Stallcop for the series Arts Alive, with special guests Joe Corral, flute and Jan Simiz, cello 4:00 pm, February 24, 2012 at Orangewood Presbyterian Church 7321 North 10th Street in Phoenix AZ 85020. Stallcop, a concert bassist with the Phoenix Symphony, and an improvising pianist, will perform his recent compositions that combine composed instrumental works with semi-improvised piano accompaniment.

International Alliance for Women in Music - IAWM Journal features Marilyn Shrude

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Marilyn Shrude: Guggenheim Fellow, 2011Marilyn Shrude: Guggenheim Fellow, 2011The Journal of the IAWM, vol. 18 no. 2 (2012) highlights Guggenheim Fellow, composer Marilyn Shrude in its winter issue. As a composer in academia, Shrude juggles a mixture of shifting activities: composing, performing, writing articles, teaching, and administration. In 2011, Marilyn Shrude was among the 180 scholars, scientists, and artists to receive the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, a grant “intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive research or exceptional creativity in the arts.”   Since the Fellowship’s inception in 1925, approximately 600 composers have received the recognition, beginning with Aaron Copland. In 2011, ACA composer Louis Karchin was also honored with the Fellowship.

Ekmeles to perform Louis Karchin's Orphic Hymn, "To the Stars" at Roulette, January 24th

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 8:00pm

Ekmeles vocal ensembleEkmeles vocal ensemble

Louis Karchins' Orphic hymn, To The Stars - Thursday, Jan. 24 -  in a new 6-voice version, with Ekmeles, at Roulette at 509 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn.  The translator of the hymn on which the setting is based, Apostolos Athanassakis, is planning to be there and will speak about the origins of this strange and beautiful text (from about 300 AD). Ekmeles is a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde. New York is home to a vibrant instrumental New Music scene, with a relative paucity of vocal music. Ekmeles was founded to fill the gap by presenting new a cappella repertoire for solo voices, and by collaborating with these instrumental ensembles. 

21st Century Consort performs music of Bermel, Crumb, Froom, and others, April 20th at the Smithsonian

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Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 5:00pm

The 21st Century Consort, award-winning contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for three decades, embarks on its sixth season at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Artistic Director Christopher Kendall presents a season of new music and high drama. On April 20: Music that moves from the dark of night to the dancing light of dawn, in a program calculated for challenge and choreographed to move.

Garrick Ohlsson CD "Close Connections" on Bridge, with William Hibbard's Handwork, January 2013

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

American pianist Garrick Ohlsson CD "Close Connections," featuring William Hibbard's Handwork, January 2013 release on Bridge Records. Titanic American pianist, Garrick Ohlsson, presents an exceptionally personal album. The pianist writes: "Each of the five pieces on this recording is a work I have been closely associated with. Two were written for me and I’ve played all of them frequently. Music of our time always needs advocates; it needs live performance, but it also needs a way to exist for reference beyond the printed score." Other works on the forthcoming album include music of  Robert Helps and Stefan Wolpe.

Premiere of Thomas L. Read's Capricci for guitar and string quartet

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Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 8:00pm

The Record PlayersThe Record PlayersSaturday, January 26, 2013, 8:00 PM, at The First Unitarian Universalist Church in Belmont, MA, featuring The Record Players, with guest soloist Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar. Music by Boccherini, Mozart, Eesperé, and Thomas L. Read.

404 Concord Ave, Belmont - Bus 74 from Harvard Square. For More Information: jkrfund.org

Milton Babbitt, a composers' memorial CD set and book now available from Perspectives of New Music

Perspectives of New Music and Open Space present a set of 4 CDs and book featuring 28 compositions composed in honor of Milton Babbitt (1916-2011). Among works by Elliott Carter, Joan Tower, Paul Lansky, Elizabeth Hoffman, Christian Carey, Hilary Tann, and others, the collection features 7 ACA-published works by composers Eleanor Cory, Brian Fennelly, Matthew Greenbaum, Joel Gressel, Hubert Howe, John Melby, and Rolv Yttrehus. The 4-disk set is available from Open Space for $45, and the comprehensive book of scores and program notes is available to subscribers of Perspectives of New Music.

Experiments in Opera benefit concert Sunday, Dec. 2 at Spectrum, and "New Shorts" micro operas presented February 9th at Issue Project Room

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Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 5:00pm

EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA will be hosting NEW SHORTS, a concert of 10 composers commissioned to present new operas that last no more than 10 minutes each. These new works will be premiered by the contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant on February 9, 2013 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.

The featured composers are:

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