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Downtown Music Productions Presents June 18 Music and Satire Concert
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Weaving Japanese Sounds, Music of Modern Japan on June 18 at Klavierhaus, New York, Featuring Japanese and Japan Inspired Works
Ensemble Pamplemousse @ the stone, july 6th 8pm
RAMBOX - Rama Gottfried's free audio mail project
Numinous+ presents Vipassana on Thursday June 22nd at 8:00 PM-Puffin Room Gallery, SoHo
The Moon of the Floating World by American Composer Charles Griffin to be Performed in Riga, Latvia on June 16 by Putni Female Vocal Ensemble
Soprano Melanie Mitrano to Perform as Part of Evening of Songs and Rags on June 14 at New York Mercantile Library
Argentinean Pianist Mirian Conti in Concert at Merkin Concert Hall on June 15 – Featured Works Include Three World Premieres and Argentine Piano Music
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Lawrence Dillon’s Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, February 25
Lawrence Dillon’s Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra will premiere on Friday, February 25th at 8:00 in Crawford Hall on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 S. Main Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The composer will conduct the Carolina Chamber Symphony, with David Jolley as soloist. The performance will be part of the 2005 International Horn Society’s Southeast Workshop. For
information about Revenant, please visit the composer’s Sequenza 21 weblog "Lawrence Dillon: An Infinite Number of Curves" at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon.html.
Tickets for this concert are $12, with discounts for students and seniors, and can be obtained by calling 336-770-3255. For more information, visit http://www.southeasthornworkshop.org/.
posted by Jerry Bowles
6:54 PM
Pianist Alia Alhan, February 26
Pianist Alia Alhan will be in concert on Saturday, February 26 – 8:00 PM at the Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street in New York.
She will be performing selections by Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev and two composers from her native Kazakhstan, Bakhtiyar Amanzhol and Adil Bestybaev. She will be joined in these last two selections by Kazakh folk instrumentalist Zhanna Kassenova.
Tickets for this concert are $20, with discounts for students and seniors. For tickets and other information, please call 212-534-0880.
posted by Jerry Bowles
6:52 PM
MUSIC FOR PEACE PROJECT 2005, APRIL 8-10, 2005
The Music for Peace Project 2005, an unprecedented global effort to promote world peace and social justice, will involve hundreds of musical performances from April 8 through 10, 2005. Through the simultaneous performance of a large number of concerts worldwide, the Music for Peace Project will bring popular and media attention to peace efforts while uniting a vibrant community of socially-conscious artists who believe in peaceful solutions for the future. It is hoped that the Music for Peace Project will increasingly become a global celebration of peace.
Both existing and specially-produced performances may be part of the effort. Musicians wishing to participate register by signing a simple form on the Peace Project website: www.m4p.org or by writing to MAP at info@m4p.org.
posted by Jerry Bowles
6:49 PM
In Defiance! Seattle, May 9, 2005
In Defiance! Music of Remembrance
Monday, May 9, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Tickets/Info: 206-365-7770
Julian Schwarz, Recipient of the David Tonkonogui Memorial Award: A Concert Prelude in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
David Schiff: Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool (1985)
Lori Laitman: The Seed of Dream (2004)
Poetry by Abraham Sutzkever: Vilna Ghetto (World Premiere commissioned
by Music of Remembrance)
Erwin Schulhoff: String Quartet No. 1 (1924)
Terezin Cabaret Music (World Premiere)
posted by Jerry Bowles
6:42 PM
Monday, February 14, 2005
Steven R. Gerber, "Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A," Feb. 19-20
Steven R. Gerber's "Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A" will be preformed in concerts by Maestro James Fellenbaum and the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra on February 19, 8:00 PM at the University’s James R. Cox Auditorium, 1408 Middle Drive in Knoxville and on February 20, 2:30 PM at Oak Ridge High School, 127 Providence Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
"Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A" was commissioned by Voice of America for its 60th anniversary, and was premiered at VOA's auditorium on a 9/11 memorial concert by the University of Maryland Brass Ensemble, Milton Stevens conducting.
These concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the University of Tennessee School of Music at (865) 974-5678. If you need additional information or assistance call (865) 974-8935 or visit them online.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:00 PM
Judith Sainte Croix, San Juan Symphony, Feb. 19-20
Native American flute virtuoso R. Carlos Nakai and the San Juan Symphony, Arthur Post, Music Director, will perform Vision II by American composer Judith Sainte Croix in two concerts entitled “The Song of the Earth”, on February 19th - 7:30 PM at the Farmington Civic Center, 200 West Arrington in Farmington, New Mexico and on Sunday February 20th - 3 PM at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive in Durango, Colorado.
Tickets range from $5 to $25 and can be purchased from the Farmington Civic Center - 505-599-1148 and from the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College - 970-247-7657 or online from the San Juan Symphony at www.sanjuansymphony.com/tickets.html.
posted by Jerry Bowles
12:25 PM
New York Virtuoso Singers, All-Barber, Merkin, March 8
The all-professional New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by its founder Harold Rosenbaum, celebrates the 95th birthday of American composer Samuel Barber by performing all of his chamber choral music, both published and unpublished. The concert will be on March 8 at 8PM, the eve of his birthdate, at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St., NYC. The pianist will be Cristina L. Valdes.
Along with well-known works like “Reincarnations” and “Stopwatch on Ordnance Map,” will be excerpts from operas, songs, and orchestral works (including the “Adagio for Strings”), all arranged by the composer for choir and piano. In addition, unpublished works will receive New York premieres, including “Motet on the Book of Job” and ”The Gypsy Song,” the opening chorus from “The Rose Tree,” an opera that Barber composed at the age of ten.
TICKETS: $20. Merkin Concert Hall Box Office: (212) 501-3330 Sunday through Thursday, 12PM to 7PM; Friday, 12PM to 4PM; online at www.kaufman-center.org; or at the door.
posted by Jerry Bowles
12:19 PM
American Youth Symphony, Carnegie Hall, April 2
The American Youth Symphony (AYS), under the direction of its Music Director and Conductor Alexander Treger, will make its Carnegie Hall debut on Saturday, April 2, 2005, at 8 p.m. (Carnegie Hall is located at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.) Internationally acclaimed pianist Yundi Li will be the featured soloist, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, in E minor. The program will also feature Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and the East Coast premiere of a new work, Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon -- In Memory of the Lives Taken by the Sea,
December 26, 2004, by Lera Auerbach, Composer-in-Residence of the AYS. (This work replaces Overture for an Unforeseeable Future, which was previously announced.) The Auerbach work was commissioned by the Orchestra, which will present the world premiere six days earlier at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, where the Orchestra is based. Consisting of players between the ages of 16 and 25, the American Youth Symphony is a polished ensemble whose high standard of performance belies the youth of its members.
posted by Jerry Bowles
12:17 PM
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