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Friday, March 03, 2006
29 April: Avner Dorman's String Quartet No. 2, 92nd St Y
Avner Dorman
String Quartet No. 2 (“Mirage”)
US Premiere
Jerusalem Quartet
29 April 2006; 92nd St Y, New York City
The U.S. premiere of Dorman's String Quartet No. 2 (“Mirage”) takes place on April 29th at the 92nd St Y, performed by the Jerusalem Quartet, a group praised for their “impeccable blend [and] fiery sweetness” (The Daily Telegraph, London). The work, described as “very impressive [and] full of essence and energy” (Ma’ariv) and “genuinely moving and delicate” (The Jerusalem Post), was commissioned for the quartet's tenth anniversary. The heart of the piece – the second movement, entitled “Prayer for the Innocents” – is dedicated to the memory of the children that perished in Beslan, Russia.
Avner Dorman is the newest addition to the G. Schirmer roster. For more information, visit:
G. Schirmer
www.avnerdorman.com
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11:53 AM
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
World Premieres Extravaganza, CapitalM, Cutting Room, March 21
Capital M, a New York City-based electric chamber ensemble led by vocalist/composer Ian Moss, announces its first ever World Premieres Extravaganza on Tuesday, March 21st at the Cutting Room. The concert, which takes place at 8:30pm, will feature seven new works by seven different composers, five of which have been written specifically for this event. The program is the recipient of a Meet The Composer Creative Connections grant, and composers David Claman, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Monika Heidemann, Bradley Kemp, Ian Moss, Frank J. Oteri, and Stefan Zeniuk will be on hand for a question-and-answer session preceding the concert.
Capital M is one of the first rock bands ever to seek out music from the contemporary classical world. The band's instrumentation (two guitars, electric bass, drums, saxophones, and vocals) and liberal use of studio effects recall influences as diverse as King Crimson and godspeed you! black emperor, and its performance history includes appearances at the 2005 College Music Journal Marathon, the Tribeca Rock Club, and the Millcreek Tavern in West Philadelphia. Yet the band's members all possess extensive classical training and its leader, Moss, takes a composer's approach to constructing its sound.
'The idea behind Capital M was to create an ensemble that really couldn't be categorized, no matter how hard you try," says Moss. 'If you think about it, even genre-busters like Bang on a Can and Björk can be forced into one metaphorical bin or another, based on the way they act if not always the way they sound. But it's very unusual to have an ensemble with our kind of instrumentation playing music that was written for the group by people who are not in the group. It just doesn't happen. Really, the only precedent that I know of is when Sonic Youth played a bunch of new music and commissioned a piece from Pauline Oliveros for its Goodbye 20th Century album. Other than that, I can't think of another time that something like this has taken place."
Moss knows of which he speaks—his day job involves working for the American Music Center, the nation's foremost information resource for the field of new American music, and he has written extensively on the subject of genre divisions between classical and popular music. In September 2005, he placed a notice in the Center's monthly Opportunity Update newsletter calling for pieces fitting Capital M's unusual yet versatile instrumentation. Among the responses were Jennifer Fitzgerald's How Terrible Orange, originally written for Duke University-based new music ensemble pulsoptional, and David Claman's Loose Canons, a meditative work scored for three electric guitars playing e-bows. Both works will be included on the program March 21st.
'I think that the moniker ‘new music' leaves room for a happy ambiguity," says Fitzgerald. 'I wrote a piece that included electric guitar and drumset because those were the instruments that I had available to me at home in North Carolina. Thankfully, there are a growing number of groups such as Capital M who engage in this ambiguity. We don't need to call this ‘crossover' for it to defy specific labels. Just ‘new music' works for me."
The evening is capped off by the world premiere of Frank J. Oteri's Imagined Overtures, a multi-movement work in 36-tone equal temperament. Oteri, who edits the highly regarded internet publication NewMusicBox, reconciles serialism, minimalism, and microtonality by referencing similarly seeming opposites in rock like punk and prog. 'Although I was born the same year that the Beatles invaded America (1964)," confesses Oteri, 'I didn't listen to Sgt. Pepper or any other rock album until I was in college, several years after I had already gotten turned on to classical music and was already exposed to microtonality. Believe it or not, the first rock band I ever heard live was the 31-tone J.C. and the Microtones!"
Moss has high hopes that the event will open up new horizons for Capital M. 'The best thing about this concert is that, because we're a rock band, the story doesn't have to end for these pieces on March 22nd. We can introduce them into our normal repertoire and play them at clubs, bars—wherever we go next. I keep having this fantasy of us being onstage at the Bowery Ballroom a few years from now, announcing to a crowd of teenagers with eyebrow piercings that ‘this next piece was commissioned for Capital M with generous support from the Fromm Foundation,' before launching into an onslaught of power chords. This concert brings us one step closer to that goal."
Oteri agrees. 'What Capital M has done by asking me and other composers to write for them is not just breaking down a wall in our seemingly wall-less musical communities. More importantly, they've created an opportunity to build something new. Imagined Overtures, as its name implies, is ultimately just a beginning."
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10:23 AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
NEW MUSIC AT ROULETTE 3/13 - 3/19
ROULETTE presents
at Location One 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
? Also! Please check out our new ROULETTE BLOG for excerpts of our artists’ music, podcasts featuring interviews with the artists and Roulette TV clips, and musical discussion: http://www.roulette.org/blog/index.php
BILLY BANG
MARK CICILIANI & ANNE LA BERGE
Monday, March 13th
Billy Bang (violinist, composer and improviser) has been one of the most prolific and original members of the progressive scene since the 1970s. Having performed with everyone from Sun Ra to Kahil El'Zabar to Don Cherry, Bang’s Roulette performance will showcase the unique improvisational style and unmistakable trademark sound for which he is known.
Anne La Berge (flute and electronics) & Marko Ciciliani (no-input mixer) get the room rumbling and then go from there. Serving up a wall-to-wall mosaic of hum and buzz, patterned noise, powerfully percussive flute techniques, warm distortion and dancing feedback, this duo always finds a way to extract demonically clever melodies and glistening harmonies out of the fray. Check out: www.annelaberge.com & www.ciciliani.com.
TODD NICHOLSON
Tuesday, March 14th
Todd Nicholson (bassist and composer) has performed internationally with fellow improvising giants like Billy Bang, Butch Morris and Frank Lowe. Tonight, he presents the premier of his new extended work, “Angel Island, “ which deals with the complex history of the beautiful Californian island that once served as a prison for immigrants. Todd is joined by Gamiel Lyons (flute,) Reut Regev (trombone & flugelhorn,) Andrew Bemkey (piano) & Darrell Greene (drums.) Commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation.
BETH GRIFFITH (performing Feldman & Ashley)
Wednesday, March 15th
Beth Griffith, the stunning, spectacular and tireless contemporary music soprano presents a program that pays tribute to the late, great Morton Feldman. Griffith has collaborated with composers such as Cage, Feldman, Kagel and Stockhausen. Her recording of Feldman's Three Voices won the German Record Critics Prize. Tonight she and dancer/choreographer Peter Schmitz and present a collaborative realization of Three Voices, and composers/performers Bill Hellerman and Rob Voisey perform Morton Feldman Says, by Robert Ashley.
MICHAEL HARRISON
Thursday, March 16th
Composer/pianist Michael Harrison appears, with his special “harmonic piano,” an extensively modified grand piano with the ability to alternate between two different tunings and to play twice as many notes as the conventional keyboard. Tonight, he and the device present the complete 90-minute version of REVELATION, his epic work inspired by his knowledge of ancient principles of harmonic resonance, his years preparing pianos for La Monte Young, and a lifelong study of Western, North Indian and Middle Eastern classical music.
ELLERY ESKELIN
Friday, March 17th
Ellery Eskelin (composer, tenor saxophone) with Andrea Parkins (accordion, piano & sampler) & Jim Black (drums & percussion) After twelve years of obsessing over the composition/improvisation paradigm, Eskelin begins yet another chapter in the band's development with a group of pieces opening new interactive pathways between the musicians and furthering a substantial body of music that has been described as "enjoyably organized madness, which needs to be heard to be believed" (Signal to Noise magazine.)
PHILL NIBLOCK
Saturday, March 18th
Composer/filmmaker/photographer Phill Niblock makes thick, loud drones of microtonal music, which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents his films/videos of people working, or of abstract computer driven images. His materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations guaranteed to mess with your head. His work has been shown at venues around the world, including the MOMA, the Kitchen, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London) and the Akademie der Kunste (Berlin.)
NICOLAS COLLINS & PETER CUSACK
EARL HOWARD
Sunday, March 19th
Nicolas Collins (trombone-propelled electronics) & Peter Cusack (guitar, bouzouki and live electronics) present “Music on the Original Instruments,” a happy mashup of buzzing strings and blipping electronics, featuring a bionic bouzouki, bizarrely extended acoustic guitar and rev. 3.1 of trombone-propelled signal processing with a special guest appearance by Jonathan Chen on Stroh violin.
Earl Howard has been active since the 1970s, has expanding the boundaries of the saxophone, experimenting with electronics, and mixing up composition, improvisation and chance in various proportions. For tonight’s show he will perform three solos, all world premiers for Roulette, one on alto sax, another on saxello and finally one on synthesizer. Howard describes the solos as “loud, soft, rhythmic, nonrhythmic, clever, witty, serious, and anything else you could reasonably add to the list.”
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2:35 PM
Monday, February 27, 2006
Monday March 20, 2006: New Music in New Places
CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE: NEW MUSIC IN NEW PLACES
National Capital Composers Party at Popular Pub
Ottawa Chamber Music Society invites one-and-all to raise a glass (and ear) to local composers’ music.
New Canadian music isn’t just for the concert hall anymore. On March 20th, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society takes over a favourite local haunt to present Ottawa Composers Pub Night! a toast to the growing community of talented music creators living and working in our Nation’s Capital. Some of Ottawa’s best local musicians provide the platform for the public to encounter fresh Canadian works by Roddy Ellias, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Eldon Rathburn, Jan Järvlepp, Maya Badian, Clifford Ford, and many others. Maxwell’s Pub & Bistro provides the inviting & relaxed atmosphere for everyone to come together for this unique local event.
Ottawa Composers Pub Night! is one of the CMC’s series of national performances called New Music in New Places, designed to bring Canadian contemporary music out of concert halls and into the lives of Canadians.
EVENT DETAILS
WHO:
Composers Music of Roddy Ellias, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Eldon Rathburn, Jan Järvlepp, Maya Badian, Clifford Ford, and others. Performers Robert Cram (flute), Charles Hamann (oboe), Victor Herbiet (saxophone), Stephen Sitarski (violin), Manuela Milani (violin), Guylaine Lemaire (viola), Julian Armour (cello), John Geggie (double bass), Jean Desmarais (piano).
WHAT:
The Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places festival series, in partnership with the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, presents Ottawa Composer Pub Night! an informal & inviting evening of music by composers living and working in our Nation’s Capital.
WHEN:
Monday March 20, 2006 starting at 8:00 PM
WHERE:
Maxwell’s Pub and Bistro
340 Elgin St.
Ottawa, ON
New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation.
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ABOUT THE CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE
Founded in 1959, the CMC is Canada’s primary place to find scores, parts and recordings of Canadian contemporary music composers. Housing Canada's largest collection of Canadian classical music works, the CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loan more than 16,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary classical music composers through its library.
Visit www.musiccentre.ca
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2:01 PM
Xenakis Multi-Media Event
On March 2nd and 3rd, 2006 at 8:00PM, Brian Brandt and MODE Records will present two evenings of an electronic music and film masterpiece by the late composer Iannis Xenakis. Tickets are available at the door and are $12.00 general admission. Anthology Film Archive is located at Second Avenue at Second Street--for tickets call (212) 979-1027.
An apocalyptic"multi-media" piece for the opening of the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris in 1978, LA LÉGENDE D'EER played for three months and was seen by thousands. Xenakis performed the electroacoustic 7-channel tape in a curvaceous architectural construction of his own design with a visual component including 1,680 lights, 4 lasers and 400 mirrors. The event was captured in over 350 slides by Rastoin – edited into a film that traces the music. This spectacle of light and sound created a rich and unsettling environment, an unforgettable journey. In a historic re-creation of Xenakis' masterpieces his associate Gerard Pape will mix the surround-sound experience live from the original master tapes at this upcoming performance. With over 350 slides being shown during the performance, the audience will be able to transport themselves back to the premiere of this work and understand how forward looking Xenkis' work was in its original performance.
More information on this event at www.moderecords.com
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