The Miller Theatre Presents Three POP-UP CONCERTS, Now thru 12/9

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts welcomes the audience back on stage with the return of Pop-Up Concerts. Tonight, October 14, 2014 Either/Or, on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 loadbang - Miller Theatre debut and on Tuesday, December 9 Mivos Quartet - Miller Theatre debut. It's free admission and doors open at 5:30pm, music at 6:00pm at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street).

POP-UP CONCERTS

Bring a friend, grab a drink, and join some of today's most interesting performers onstage at Miller Theatre on select Tuesday evenings. Now in the fourth season, Pop-Up Concerts have become a beloved mainstay at Miller, providing free, informal performances in the early evening. The unique format of these hour-long concerts allows the theater to test out new ideas, often welcoming emerging ensembles to that stage for their Miller Theatre debut. Free libations contribute to the laid-back ambiance. All concerts start at 6 p.m. Admission is first-come, first-served, and doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Either/Or

Richard Carrick, piano
Margaret Lancaster, flute
John Popham, cello
David Shively, percussion
Either/Or celebrates three trailblazing composers in the opening Pop-Up concert of the season, an intimate program featuring artistic directors Richard Carrick on piano and David Shively on percussion. Lucier's Still Lives is inspired by the interplay of perfect sine waves and live piano. In Ancestral Bells, R?dulescu blends his spectral techniques of composition with a Romanian Christmas carol, while Feldman's Why Patterns?interweaves myriad rhythms from each instrument - never choosing a dominate one - to open up new sonic patterns.

PROGRAM:
Alvin Lucier: Still Lives for piano with slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1995), selections
Hora?iu R?dulescu: Sonata for cello and piano op.98 - Ancestral Bells, mvt. 3 (1997)
Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? for piano, glockenspiel and flutes (1978)

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

loadbang

Miller Theatre debut
Adrián Sandí, clarinet
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
Andy Kozar, trumpet
Andy Lang, trombone
loadbang's unique instrumentation-bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and baritone voice-means that each piece on the program was composed with the group in mind. Their Miller debut showcases the versatility of the "inventive" (New York Times) ensemble, from Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Wuorinen's Alphabetical Ashbery, which draws inspiration from the New York poet John Ashbery, to What Is The Word, in which Scott Wollschleger blends the text of Samuel Beckett's last poem with whispers, trills, and slaps.

PROGRAM:
Alex Mincek: Number May Be Defined (2013)
Scott Wollschleger: What Is The Word (2014)
Charles Wuorinen: Alphabetical Ashbery (2013)
Reiko Füting: Land of Silence (2009)

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Mivos Quartet

Miller Theatre debut
Olivia De Prato, violin
Joshua Modney, violin
Victor Lowrie, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
"One of America's most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles," (The Chicago Reader) the Mivos Quartet makes their Miller debut with imaginative works by three composers from across the globe. The evening includes New York guitarist and composer Patrick Higgins' darkly dramatic Aletheia and twelve "microludes" from Romanian-born composer György Kurtág-passionate, serene, and haunting in turns-that demonstrate the breadth of this young quartet's talent.

PROGRAM:
Martin Stauning: Atmende Steine (2013)
J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus XIX (arr. Patrick Higgins 2013)
Patrick Higgins: Aletheia (2013)
György Kurtág: Hommage à Mihály András: 12 Mikroludien für Streichquartett, op. 13 (1977)

Pop-Up Concerts will return in February
for a spring season. Save the dates!

Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Photo Courtesy of The Miller Theatre's Website

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