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Face the Music Announces Spring Schedule Update 3/21-5/27
By: Gabrielle Sierra Mar. 16, 2010
Face the Music, an ensemble of astonishingly talented teenagers, performs works by today's most compelling and creative new music composers. In residence at the Kaufman Center, Face the Music breaks the boundaries of classical music education and performance, featuring today's music presented by the emerging artistic voices of tomorrow.
Face the Music's updated spring performance schedule in venues throughout the city:THIS WEEKEND!! Sunday, March 21 at 12:00 PM - Hudson View Gardens. Program includes works by Marcelo Zarvos, Miguel del Aguila, Paul Desenne, Nico Muhly and JacobTV. Location: 116 Pinehurst Ave., NYC, hudsonviewgardens.com.Thursday, April 15 at 7:00 PM - P.S. 321. Program features the world premiere of Liquid Timepieces by Joe Phillips, a Brooklyn-based composer and jazz performer. The ensemble will also perform Graham Fitkin's sax-heavy Mesh (1992), Marcelo Zarvos' foot-stomping "Memory" from Nepomuk's Dances (2002), Nico Muhly's stop-and-start How About Now (2006); and Jacob TV's Lipstick (1998), with a playback mix based on clips from American talk shows. Location: 180 7th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Thursday, May 27 at 6:30 PM - Merkin Concert Hall. Program features works by Nico Muhly, Paul Desenne and Joe Phillips, and precedes the SIGNAL ensemble's world premiere of a new work by Muhly and the American premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Corridor. Location: 129 West 67th Street, Upper Lobby, New York, New York.
Face the Music features twenty classically trained musicians, ranging from sixth to twelfth grade. The group's mission is to engage talented teenage musicians from across the City to represent a diverse range of backgrounds and talents. The performers are primarily students or alumni of Kaufman's own Special Music School, the only public school in New York City that integrates pre-conservatory musical training with academic education.
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