Saturday, April 2, 2005 at 8
p.m
The American Youth Symphony
Alexander Treger, conductor
Yundi Li, piano soloist
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Lera Auerbach: Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon –
In Memory of the Lives Taken by the Sea, December 26, 2004
Carnegie Hall (57th Street and Seventh Avenue)
Tickets: $17 to $47 (senior, student and wheelchair seats are
discounted)
Tuesday, April 5th, at
1:30 p.m.
Terry Winter Owens Composers' Forum
I will play some excerpts from the CD "Exposed on the Cliffs of the
Heart" and talk about the "audible landscape," the challenges and joys of
composing, translating Rilke, etc. Questions and answers will follow.
Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, in Room 249, Gershwin Building
Free Admission
For directions to Brooklyn College, visit
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/info/aboutbc/index.php?link=travel
Wednesday, April 6, at
8:00 p.m.
Friends & Enemies of New Music: An Evening of Songs with
the Composers at the Piano
Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, mezzo-soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Paul Sperry, tenor
Robert Beaser, piano
Tom Cipullo, piano
David Del Tredici, piano
Paul Moravec, piano
Beaser: The Seven Deadly Sins
Cipullo: Long Island Songs
Del Tredici: Chana’s Story
Moravec: Evensong
Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, 95th & Broadway
Tickets: $15/$8 for senior citizens and students
Thursday, April 7 at 8
p.m.
Composer Portraits series: Augusta Read Thomas
7 p.m. pre-concert discussion with Augusta Read Thomas
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour (world premiere)
Silver Chants the Litanies (NY premiere)
In My Sky at Twilight (NY premiere)
Spirit Musings (NY premiere)
Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson, conductor
Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano
Matt Marks, horn
Courtney Orlando, violin
Miller Theater, Columbia University
Tickets: Adults: $20 / Students: $12 with valid ID (Box Office sales
only)
Friday, April 8, 2005 at
8 p.m.
American Festival of Microtonal Music
Presented by the Electric Music Collective
Matthew Polashek, baritone saxophone
Christopher Bailey, piano
Meredith Borden, soprano
Maja Cerar, violin
Timothy Polashek: Hot-Tempered Arpeggios
Marcus Alessi Bittencourt: Bathyscaphe
Christopher Bailey: Ooogaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship
Bailey: Mgesahred Efflewd Bqnoussk
. Douglas Geers: Peace Prayer
Geers: Lunar Vortex
Joseph Pehrson: BlackandJill
Faust/Harrison Piano Studios, 205 W. 58 St.
Tickets: $15
Saturday,
April 9, at 2 p.m.
Long Island Composers Alliance
Featuring the Aviva Players
Mira J. Spektor: Mary Shelley – Scenes from a Life (excerpts)
Libretto: Colette Ine
Constance Beavon, mezzo-soprano
John Tirano, tenor
Hadassah Guttman, piano
Forest Hills Public Library, 108-19 71st St., Forest Hills
Admission Free
Monday, April 11, 2005
at 8 p.m.
After Ziklag
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
Maria Zifchak, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Mobbs, baritone
Max Lifchitz, conductor
Emma Lou Diemer: A Requiem
Stefania de Kenessey: Entrances and Departures
Gee-Bum Kim: After Ziklag
Christ and St. Stephen’s Church
(120 West 69th Street, NYC – between Broadway and Columbus)
Free Admission
Monday, April 11 at 8:00
p.m.
The Columbia Sinfonietta
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Susan Narucki, soprano
Gyorgy Kurtag: The Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova
Fred Lerdahl: Time After Time
Marcelo Toledo: Resplandecencias de la nada, Josh Levine Glimpses
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, Abraham Goodman House, 129 W 67th
St.
Tickets: $10
Friday, April 15 and Saturday,
April 16 at 8:00 p.m.
Two Musical Theater Premieres by Ben Yarmolinsky
Ishmael Wallace, piano and musical direction
Singers: Judith Barnes, Sylvie Jensen, Gregg Lauterbach, Melanie
Mitrano, Bruce Rameker, Erin Shields, Aram Tchobanian
Players: Ralph Allen (violin), John Bollinger (percussion), Tania
Simoncelli (cello)
Yarmolinsky: April 15th Blues (World Premiere)
Yarmolinsky: Alice (American Premiere)
St. Michael’s Parish Hall, 255 W. 99 St.
Tickets: $15 suggested donation
Saturday, April 16, at
8:00 p.m.
American Modern Ensemble Debut Concert
Paul Sperry, tenor
Robert Paterson, marimba
Sharon Quattrin, soprano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Robert Paterson: Stepping into the Batter's Box He Hears
His Father's Voice
Paterson: Violin Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
Paterson: Braids for marimba
Paterson: Thursday for soprano and piano
Paterson: Komodo for marimba
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W. 13 St.
Tickets: $15/$10 for senior citizens and students
Sunday, April 17 at 5 p.m.
and Tuesday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
David Shifrin, clarinet
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Nestor Marconi, bandoneón
Pablo Aslan, double bass
Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
Lalo Schifrin, piano
Lalo Schifrin: Letters from Argentina (World Premiere)
Alice Tully Hall
Tickets: $48; $39.50; $27.50; Student Rush $10
Sunday, April 17, at 4
p.m.
The Long Island Composers Alliance
Constance Beavon, mezzo-soprano
Hadassah Guttmann, piano
Albert Tepper
Mary Inwood
Leo Kraft
Julie Mandel
Martin Halpern: The Here and Hereafter
Grace Church, 254 Hicks St., in Brooklyn Heights
Free Admission, though a contribution to the Alliance of $10 will be
appreciated
Tuesday, April 19 at 8:00
p.m.
Wednesday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m.
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Soovin Kim, violin
Kirsten Johnson, viola
Turina: Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor,
Op. 49
Katherine Hoover: El Andalus (New York Premiere)
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
92nd Street Y
Tickets: $35
Friday, April 22 at 8 p.m.
Composer Portraits: Brian Ferneyhough
Ensemble 21
Michael Adelson, conductor
David Fedele, piccolo
Mario Caroli, flute/bass flute
Mark Menzies, violin
Ferneyhough: Carceri d'Invenzione
(American premiere of complete cycle)
Miller Theater, Columbia University
Tickets: 3 or more Portraits for $17 each; single tickets: $20
Friday, April 22, 2005
at 8:00 p.m.
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Daniel Lippel, guitar
Curtis Macomber, violin
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 9 (violin)
Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 10 (guitar)
Peter Gilbert: Ricochet (guitar)
Arthur Kreiger: Uncommon Bonds (clarinet)
John Link: Only Human (clarinet)
Steve Ricks: Beyond the Zero (violin)
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93 St.
Tickets: suggested donation $15
Sunday, April 24, at 3
p.m.
Honoring…the American Art Song
Downtown Chamber and Opera Players
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, artistic director and pianist
Elizabeth Farnum, soprano
September Bigelow, soprano
Nita Baxani, soprano
Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano
Janet E. Hopkins, soprano
Jeffrey Hayes, oboe
Matthew Baier, guitar
Marisol Espada, cello
Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
Mark N. Grant:
Red Berries
Joyce Hope Suskind:
Love Songs
Julie Mandel:
Portraits
Michael Cohen:
Songs
Grant:
Book of Illuminations
St. Mark’s in the Bowery (10th Street & 2nd Avenue)
Tickets: suggested donation $10-$15 (seniors & students $8)
Wednesday, April 27 at
7:30 pm
Dona Nobis Pacem
for chorus and orchestra.
by Joseph Trapanese
Gabriel Gordon, conductor
New Jersey Symphony Community Chorus and Greater Newark Youth Orchestra
Includes orchestral works by Warlock, Bach, Vivaldi, and Bizet.
Also featured will be fourteen-year-old viola soloist Darrin Im
from Middletown, NJ in Carl Stamitz's Concerto in D major for viola.
Victoria Theatre at
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
Tickets $10
call the NJSO Ticket Office at 1-800 ALLEGRO
(1-800-255-3476), Monday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m.
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Iva Bittová , Violin/Vocals
Robert Black, Bass
David Cossin, Percussion
Lisa Moore, Piano
Mark Stewart, Electric Guitar
Wendy Sutter, Cello
Evan Ziporyn, Clarinets
Andrew Cotton, Sound Engineer
Paul Lansky: A Is for...
Evan Ziporyn: Dalem and Sangut (Music from ShadowBang)
Glenn Branca: Compositional Recreations One (Black 5 vs. White 7
in 3 + 4 Time)
Iva Bittová: Solo improvisation
Iva Bittová: Elida
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave.
Tickets: $20 - $32 (call 212/247-7800)
Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m.
Mario and the Magician
Francis Thorne, composer
J.D. McClatchy, libretto
from the story by Thomas Mann
The CUNY Center for Contemporary Opera
Jason Jacobs, stage director
Justin Vickers, tenor - Mario
Richard Cassell, bass-baritone – Cipolla the magician
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 695 Park Ave.
Tickets: $50/$40/$30
