Sonata for Violin and Doublebass by Elliott Schwartz, performed June 17 by NY Phil Chamber Ensembles

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Sunday, June 17, 2012 - 6:00pm
On June 17, Elliott's "Sonata for Violin and Doublebass"  will be be performed by members of the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensembles at Merkin Hall (3 pm), as part of the NYPE Merkin Hall Sunday afternoon chamber series. The full program: Handel - Trio Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 4; Elliott Schwartz - Sonata for Violin and Double Bass; Cras - Quintette; Gaubert - Divertissement grec; Ravel - Piano Trio.

Sunday morning [Un] Classical broadcast on www.kzra.org 11AM ET with host Richard Cameron-Wolfe

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Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 11:00am

Richard Cameron-WolfeRichard Cameron-WolfeRichard Cameron-Wolfe will present his monthly radio show "Sunday Morning [Un]Classics" on the web this Sunday, May 27, broadcasting from 9:00AM to 12:00 Mountain time (11:00AM to 2:00PM Eastern time), 16:00-19:00 in the UK. The program offers a "gourmet table" of familiar and unfamiliar music - with a special emphasis on works composed in the past 100 years. The website is www.krza.org , where one clicks on the "Listen Live" button. Playlist for the May 27 program includes music by [hour 1] Yuri Yukechev (Novosibirsk), W.F. Bach, Albeniz, and Harry Bulow; [hour 2] Debussy, Joel Gressel (ACA), Faure, and Roberto Sierra; [hour 3] Beethoven, Louis Karchin (ACA), Franz Liszt, and a surprise.

Albert Glinsky to pen authorized biography of Robert Moog

Robert Moog and Albert GlinskyRobert Moog and Albert Glinsky Albert Glinsky, an esteemed professor, composer, musician, and author of the award-winning biography, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, for which Robert Moog wrote the foreword, is currently writing Moog's authorized biography. Glinsky's  Leon Theremin biography earned Moog's highest respect and praise, and the electronic music pioneer's Moog Foundation has formally announced that Glinsky is set to author the definitive biography of Robert Moog (1935-2005).

Glinsky has begun the process of interviewing  Bob’s friends, associates, and family members, and his research is taking him to far reaching locations in pursuit of the ultimate Moog legacy. More details about this incredible endeavor will follow soon.

The American Composers Alliance celebrates 75 years!

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Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 8:00pm

THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE

Saturday, June 23, 2012  8:00 pm
Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
2537 Broadway at 95th St. New York City (1,2,3 Subway to 96th St.)

"To encourage the inclusion of American works in the programs of performers and performing organizations.”
                -- #4 Aims of the Alliance, from ACA Bulletin, Vol 1, No. 1, April 1938

Program:

George Edwards, Parallel Convergences (1988)
Miriam Gideon, Bömischer Krystall (1990)
Dorothy Rudd Moore, Transcension (1986)
Elliott Schwartz, Chamber Concerto VI: Mr. Jefferson (2007) New York Premiere
Ben Weber, Concerto, Op. 32 (1950)

Featuring the Orchestra of the League of Composers, with soloists Jo Ellen Miller,
Fred Sherry, Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, and Orion Weiss
with Oliver Hagen, conductor

Tickets $25/$20/$15
Box office: 212.864.5400 

To purchase tickets online: click here
www.symphonyspace.org

 

The historic Laurel Leaf Award, given by ACA over the years to such artists/entities as Martha Graham, George Szell, WBAI Radio, and the American Composers Orchestra, will be given this year to Innova Recordings, for its excellent support of the full range of contemporary American music.

Elizabeth Austin's Mass of Thanksgiving featured in Mother's Day services at St. John's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn

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Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 11:00am

 

Mother's Day Mass, on  May 13, 2012, 11 AM service, to be celebrated with a solemn choral Mass at St. John's Episcopal Church in Park Slope, with Cryder Bankes, music director. Sunday's service will feature original music by Elizabeth Austin, from her Mass of Thanksgiving, based on the hymn "We Gather Together." Other sacred service music planned for the Mass will include works by Beth Anderson, Heather Seaton, Anne Phillips, and Mary Ann Joyce-Walter.   St. John's Episcopal Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn, 139 St. John's Place near 7th Avenue.

BLOWN AWAY by Lawrence Dillon to be performed May 8 by the Piedmont Wind Symphony

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 7:30pm

Piedmont Wind SymphonyPiedmont Wind SymphonyThe Piedmont Wind Symphony performs BLOWN AWAY by Lawrence Dillon on May 8 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as part of A Celebration of Winston-Salem on Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30 PM at Brendle Recital Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Blown Away was written for wind ensemble in 2005. Hear the piece here. Other works on the program are by composers from the Winston-Salem area.

Conducted by Jeff Whitsett, the concert will also feature Guest Conductor Dr. Kevin Bowen and and a performance by the Winston-Salem Youth Chorus, directed by Barbara Beattie.

For tickets ($15/$12) and more information about the May 8 concert, call 336-722-9328 or visit http://www.piedmontwindsymphony.com/.

David Gamper Memorial Concert at Roulette, June 30

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Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 3:00pm

David Gamper (1945-2011)David Gamper (1945-2011)Saturday, June 30 at 3pm -  Elliott Schwartz will be performing as piano soloist in the premiere of his "Hearing David" for piano and electronic sounds, at a concert in memory of David Gamper (1945-2011), Bowdoin class of 1967, who was a leading figure in the new-music world.  The composer-performer-sound artist Gamper was a member of the highly influential Deep Listening Band along with Stuart Dempster & Pauline Oliveros.

Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College, where he began teaching in 1964, notes that his work for this concert makes use of sound sources created by Gamper during his student years at Bowdoin and Dartmouth. The concert will take place at Roulette (Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn).

Look and Listen Festival returns - May 12-14th at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

Date: 
Saturday, May 12, 2012

 

Look & Listen Festival: new music in art gallery spacesLook & Listen Festival: new music in art gallery spacesAnnouncing the 2012 Look and Listen Festival!

Please join us for three concerts of new music in art galleries
Saturday, May 12th · Sunday, May 13th · Monday, May 14th
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street

Tickets available online or at the door
Single tickets $15 · All-Festival Pass $35

Festival highlights:

Three world premiere performances, one per festival concert, of the 2012 Look & Listen commission, Orbit Design, by composer Derek Bermel. The work is a tribute to 20th century radical John Cage. The score combines notation, improvisation, and chance elements that will come alive uniquely when realized by a trio of percussions on May 12th, a trio of flutists on May 13th, and Brooklyn Rider on May 14th.
Look & Listen regular since 2012 So Percussion will curate the opening concert.

Bard College Conservatory players will tour China with multiple concerts in June, including a work by Jacob Avshalomov

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Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 8:00pm

"The Egg" in Beijing"The Egg" in BeijingFor three weeks in June 2012 the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, will tour greater China, performing in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, and Guangzhou.

In Taipei, the Orchestra’s performance will feature pianists Lina Yeh and Rolf Peter-Wille in the Mozart Concerto in E flat, KV 365, along with the Symphony No. 5 of Gustav Mahler. All other performances of the tour will be part of a collaboration with the Bard Music Festival, including a revisiting of “Tchaikovsky and World,” “Mahler and His World,” and a special illustrated lecture/concert curated by Leon Botstein on the topic “Shanghai Refugees.”

For his lecture concert, Dr. Botstein has chosen "Evocations" for viola and piano, by Jacob Avshalomov, ACA composer, born in 1919, in Tsingtao, China. Jacob celebrated his 93rd birthday on March 28 this year, with family and friends in Oregon.

 

Hubert Howe and Friends – A concert of (mostly) premieres, Tuesday May 1st

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 7:30pm

Hubert HoweHubert HoweRaoul PleskowRaoul PleskowJohn MelbyJohn MelbyA concert of mostly premieres, by HUBERT HOWE AND FRIENDS, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM at LeFrak Concert Hall on the campus of Queens College, Kissena Blvd. At the Long Island Expressway (65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing NY 11367).  Admission free.  For more information, call 718-997-3800.  For directions to LeFrak Concert Hall, link here.

The program will include world premieres of Emergence (Timbre Study No. 8) and Chimera for solo cello by Hubert Howe, Music for Four Instruments by Raoul Pleskow, “For Milton” for soprano and computer by John Melby, and Nocturne for solo piano by Nina Siniakova.  It will also include the U.S. premiere of Hubert Howe’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano and a performance of 19-tone Clusters, an electronic tape piece synthesized using Csound, with a dance interpretation by Linda Past.

Performers will include Patricia Sonego, soprano, Andrew Borkowski, cello, Nina Sinkakova and Aiko Imaizumi, piano, Sara Aratake, clarinet, Yu-Hsuan Lin, bassoon, and Hsiang-Lin Wang, flute.

New work for "three pianos", by Elliott Schwartz, to be premiered at the Juilliard School, May 19th

Date: 
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 8:00pm

Pianist, Hui WuPianist, Hui WuOn May 19, a new work by Elliott Schwartz, Mirrors and Branches for piano solo and 2 pre-recorded pianos will be premiered by pianist Hui Wu - “A Pianist of True Distinction..." (--David Dubal, author and radio host) at the Juilliard School of Music (Paul Hall), 8 pm. The pianist records two tracks in advance of the concert, so that a complete performance sounds like a work for three pianos (the live on-stage pianist flanked by two loudspeakers). 

World premiere of Touching Bass, by Mark Zuckerman, May 15 at Princeton

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 8:00pm
Mark ZuckermanMark ZuckermanBassist Jack Hill will perform the world premiere of Touching Bass, written for him by ACA composer Mark Zuckerman. The pianist will be John Kamitsuka. The premiere will be on a Princeton University performance faculty recital at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at 8:00 PM on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Admission is free.

MARI KIMURA IN RECITAL, April 25th at the Hiart Gallery

Date: 
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 8:00pm

Violinist, composer, MARI KIMURAViolinist, composer, MARI KIMURAAPRIL 25, 2012:    MARI KIMURA IN RECITAL:

JANMARICANA for Subharmonics (violin solo)

 Stefan Wolpe: SECOND PIECE FOR VIOLIN ALONE
Matthew Greenbaum: LATERAL (premiere)
Mario Davidovksy:   SYNCHRONISMS NO. 9
Eric Chasalow: SCUFFLE AND SNAP
Mari Kimura: CANON ELASTIQUE  for Augmented Violin
EIGENSPACE for interactive graphicsVOYAGE APOLLONIAN for interactive graphics
Egberto Gismonti: Carta de Amor
Conlon Nancarrow: TOCCATA

AMPHIBIAN: NEW MUSIC AND VIDEO AT THE HIART GALLERY
227 West 29th Street New York, NY

Music of Vally Weigl, at Musikschule Wels, in Austria

Date: 
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 11:00am

Flutist Norbert Trawöger presents a concert of music by Vally Weigl, on Sunday, May 20 at Musikschule Wels. For his Welser concert series entitled: "banned, persecuted" - which presents music composed by banned, exiled and persecuted composers, Prof. Trawöger received the 2008 Elfriede Grünberg prize. Over the past ten years, performances of music in this series have included works by Ruth Schonthal, Paul Hindemith, Leo Smit, Erwin Schulhoff, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Eric Zeisl, and Vally and Karl Weigl.

Zhitomir Musical Spring Festival in the Ukraine, April 23-29, with performances of music by Richard Cameron-Wolfe

Date: 
Monday, April 23, 2012

Score page from "as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance..."Score page from "as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance..."Composer-pianist Richard Cameron-Wolfe will participate in the April 23-29 Zhitomir Musical Spring Festival in the Ukraine, for which he serves as U.S. Liaison. He will present an illustrated lecture on the history of the development of American classical music and will be attending productions of two of his solo “micro-operas” (brief experimental musical-theatrical works). On April 26, the Ecuadoran percussionist Cristian Orozco will perform the eastern European premiere of --- as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance ---

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