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Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Downtown Music Productions Presents June 18 Music and Satire Concert
Composer Darcy Reynolds Cloven Dreams to Be Performed by Sontonga Quartet in Grass Valley, California on June 17
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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Friday, April 15, 2005
D’Arcy Reynolds, South Africa, April 19, 23, 24
California-based composer D’Arcy Reynolds is in South Africa as part of a Meet the Composer Global Connections grant for performances of her music by the Sontonga String Quartet and others at the University of Cape Town and other venues. The dates and locations for these performances are:
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 8 PM in the Chisolm Recital Room of the South Africa College of Music in Cape Town. This will be an all-Reynolds program, featuring her String Quartet, “Cloven Dreams” for flute and string trio, Corazon de Verano, Theme and Variations for clarinet and piano, Preludes for viola and piano and 21 for piano solo. Performers for this concert will include the Sontonga String Quartet, clarinetist Matthew Reid, the composer at the piano and guest artists.
Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 8 PM in the Beethoven Room, Grahamstown. The Sontonga Quartet will present the string quartet version of Ms. Reynolds’ “Cloven Dreams” on a program with the Haydn Quartet, Op. 77 no. 1 and Schumann’s Piano Quintet with students from Rhodes University.
Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 4 PM at the University of Port Elizabeth Auditorium in Port Elizabeth. The Sontonga Quartet will once again present Ms. Reynolds’ “Cloven Dreams”for quartet on a program with the Haydn Quartet, Op. 77 no. 1, this time with Schumann’s String Quartet, Op. 41, no. 3 and String Quartet No. 3 by the contemporary South African composer Peter Klatzow.
The composer has been keeping and updating an online trip weblog that can be read at http://www.sequenza21.com/reynolds.html or
http://www.darcyreynolds.com/southafrica.html.
Formed in 2002, the South Africa-based Sontonga Quartet has established itself as one of their country’s finest exponents of both classical and contemporary repertoire. In its first 18 months, it gave world premières of works by more than a dozen composers from Kevin Volans, Matteo Fargion and Mokale Koapeng to South African premières of works by Arvo Pärt, Peter Louis van Dijk and Henryk Gòrecki. The Quartet also performs in several major South African festivals such as the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the Franschhoek Chamber Music Festival, the
International Classical Music Festivals and the Chamber Music Festival in Bloemfontein. Visit them online at http://www.sontongaquartet.com/.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:33 PM
Steven R. Gerber, Knoxville, April 17
Steven R. Gerber’s Spirituals for String Orchestra will be given its U.S. Premiere performance on Sunday, April 17 - 4 PM, by the University of Tennessee Chamber Orchestra, James Fellenbaum, conductor, at the school’s Music Hall, 1741 Volunteer Blvd., in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Repertoire for this concert will also include Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and Music for James Agee, composed by Kenton Coe, featuring School of Music Oboist Phylis Secrist.
The University of Tenessee Chamber Orchestra is a new ensemble, debuting in 2004. This ensemble is dedicated to smaller, more intimate works in the orchestral literature, including works by Bach, Holst, Vaughn Williams, Handel and others. Learn more about the school’s orchestra programs.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the UT School of Music Concertline at (865) 974-5678 or
visit the School of Music online.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:29 PM
Beth Anderson, Lawrence Dillon, Haskell Small and Judith Lang Zaimont, Kiev, April 19 and 21
Ukrainian conductor Maksim Kuzin will host and conduct concerts of American, European and Ukrainian music in Kiev, Ukraine on Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21. Both events will be presented as part of the biennial “Youth Art Forum” festival of contemporary music and will be performed at the city’s Concert Hall of the House of Science.
The April 19 concert will feature music by American composers: Beth Anderson’s “New Mexico Swale” for flute, percussion, violin, viola and cello, Lawrence Dillon’s “Devotion” for flute, violin, viola and cello, Haskell Small’s “12 Snippets” for flute, clarinet, cello and piano and “Short Story” for flute, oboe, clarinet, cello and piano and Judith Lang Zaimont’s “Sky Curtains” for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello. Performers will be the Kiev Youth Soloists Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Maksim Kuzin, who will also host the program and serve as narrator in one of the other selections.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:26 PM
TimeTable Percussion, Bowery Poetry Club, April 20
Wet Ink Presents:
TimeTable Percussion
With works by Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm,
Hiroya Miura, Jeff Snyder and others
AND a performance by the band Coptic Light
When: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 8 p.m.
Where: Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker)
Who: TimeTable Percussion (Matthew Gold, Joseph Tomkins, Matt Ward) // Coptic Light
Tickets: $10 at the door
Information: www.wetink.org
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:23 PM
Musical Portrait of HC Andersen, Scandinavia House,April 17
Danish soprano and former American-Scandinavian Fellow HANNE LADEFOGED-DOLLASE will perform A MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, with lyrics written by Andersen and music written by Grieg, Schumann, and others. Known primarily for his fairy tales, Andersen was also a talented and prolific lyricist, writing poems and texts to accompany many 19th-century Romantic classics.
Ms. Ladefoged-Dollase, a favorite with Pacific Northwest audiences, has performed with the Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera, Orchestra Seattle, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Northwest Sinfonietta, Seattle Choral Company, and Seattle's Early Music Guild. Most recently Ms. Ladefoged-Dollase has performed with the Ars Musica Chorale of New Jersey and the National Chorale at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
TICKETS
$15 ($10 American-Scandinavian Foundation members)
Call (212) 847-9740 for reservations
Victor Borge Hall
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets), New York, NY 10016
For general information call (212) 879-9779 or visit www.scandinaviahouse.org.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:08 PM
Barbad Chamber Orchestra, Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, April 22
The Barbad Chamber Orchestra
Ramin Heydarbeygi, Music Director
Friday, April 22, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Christ and St. Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th Street
(between Broadway and Columbus)
$15 ($10 for seniors and students)
Program:
Mozart Divertimento in F, K. 138
Harutiunian Concerto for Violin (New York premiere)
Pauline Kim, violin soloist
Dvorak Notturno, Op. 40
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
The Barbad Chamber Orchestra presents a concert commemorating the victims of war and genocide. The Barbad will perform a work by Armenian composer Alexander Harutiunian to honor the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915; and a work by Shostakovich composed in memory of the victims of World War II. In stark contrast, and to remind us of the beautiful side of humanity, a work by Mozart will be performed, as well as a youthful work by Dvorak to symbolize hope. In line with Barbad’s vision to promote cultural democracy and diversity, this concert is intended to convey an urgent message of peace through music.
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:05 PM
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