Make Music New York, ComposersCollaborative Inc, Peppergreen Media & Cornelia Street Café present 'IN (Key),' an extraordinary 50th anniversary celebration of Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece 'IN C' on Saturday, June 21st featuring eleven new works by leading composer-performers. The event will begin with a special performance of 'IN C' itself, serving as a prelude to all that is to follow.
Roulette proudly celebrates Guy Barash's debut album, Facts About Water, from Innova Recordings with a retrospective of this intriguing composer's recent works tonight, May 21st at 8.
As announced last week, Incubator Arts Project is closing its doors. Before the organization leaves St. Mark's, the group is presenting WSB 100 by William S Burroughs as part of its final lineup of artists.
Roulette proudly celebrates Guy Barash's debut album, Facts About Water, from Innova Recordings with
a retrospective of this intriguing composer's recent works on Wednesday, May 21st at 8.
Roulette presents the USA Premiere of Elliott Sharp's SysOrk, tonight, March 12 at 8pm. SysOrk, for this concert, will feature: Andrew Drury on drums and percussion, Terry Greene on trombone, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Judith Insell on viola, Ron Lawrence on viola, Tim Leopold on trumpet, Jenny Lin on piano, Chris McIntyre on trombone, Oscar Noriega on reeds, Jessica Pavone on viola, Reuben Radding on contrabass, Danny Tunick on percussion and vibraphone, Elliott Sharp on electroacoustic guitar and bass clarinet.
Roulette presents the USA Premiere of Elliott Sharp's SysOrk, Wednesday, March 12 at 8pm. SysOrk, for this concert, will feature: Andrew Drury on drums and percussion, Terry Greene on trombone, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Judith Insell on viola, Ron Lawrence on viola, Tim Leopold on trumpet, Jenny Lin on piano, Chris McIntyre on trombone, Oscar Noriega on reeds, Jessica Pavone on viola, Reuben Radding on contrabass, Danny Tunick on percussion and vibraphone, Elliott Sharp on electroacoustic guitar and bass clarinet.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR, a rare hearing of the Icelandic artist's soundscapes.
Roulette, celebrating over 35 years of presenting new and experimental performance, announces its exciting 2014 Winter/Spring season which kicks off January 6 with the highly acclaimed pianist Kris Davis who will present her large ensemble project 'Infrasound'.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR, a rare hearing of the Icelandic artist's soundscapes.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR, a rare hearing of the Icelandic artist's soundscapes.
The Renaissance Society presents an international new music concert series in conjunction with its group exhibition Suicide Narcissus, now through Dec. 15, 2013, featuring a lineup of musicians who will expose Chicagoans to dynamic compositions, instruments and techniques at the leading edge of new music rarely showcased in the city.
From the Saharan capital of Nouakchott, Mauritania, Noura Mint Seymali embarks on a debut tour of the United States in September 2013, transporting sounds from the desert tents and urban courtyards where Moorish music lives to the American concert hall. Noura Mint Seymali, lead vocalist, and her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly, guitarist, hail from two of Mauritania's most prominent Moorish griot families, the storied class of musician-historians in West Africa. Located at the convergence of North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritania bridges the cultural divide between the Arab world and Francophone West Africa, a convergence revealed most tellingly in the music of the griot.
Japan Society welcomes renowned puppet artist Basil Twist with the return of his critically acclaimed, award-winning Dogugaeshi as Japan Society's Performing Arts Program commences its 60th Anniversary season: Japan, the U.S. & Beyond!. A limited engagement, 7 performances only, plays today, September 18-22 at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street).
?Four concerts from October to November will showcase the work of artists hailing from the United States, Germany and Japan, including: improvisational German trumpeter Birgit Ulher with Eric Leonardson (Oct. 8 at 8 p.m.); electro-acoustic chamber music outfit Gene Coleman and Ensemble N_JP (Oct. 23 at 8 p.m.); Chicago-based flutist Lisa Goethe-McGinn (Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.); and Japenese shamisen performers Yoko Reikano Kimura and Yumiko Tanaka (Nov. 13 at 8 p.m.). The musicians' work oscillates between the traditional and the contemporary, probing noise and silence equally, shifting between reactive improvisation and studied composition.
From the Saharan capital of Nouakchott, Mauritania, Noura Mint Seymali embarks on a debut tour of the United States in September 2013, transporting sounds from the desert tents and urban courtyards where Moorish music lives to the American concert hall. Noura Mint Seymali, lead vocalist, and her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly, guitarist, hail from two of Mauritania's most prominent Moorish griot families, the storied class of musician-historians in West Africa. Located at the convergence of North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritania bridges the cultural divide between the Arab world and Francophone West Africa, a convergence revealed most tellingly in the music of the griot.
Japan Society proudly welcomes renowned puppet artist Basil Twist with the return of his critically acclaimed, award-winning Dogugaeshi as Japan Society's Performing Arts Program commences its 60th Anniversary season: Japan, the U.S. & Beyond!. A limited engagement, 7 performances only, plays September 18-22 at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street).
After three successful years at The Tank, composer and curator Guy Barash's contemporary music series, Eavesdropping, is relocating to Spectrum to kick off a fourth year of exciting programming. 'We are thrilled for this collaboration and look forward to presenting another electrifying season of contemporary music,' Barash beams. He continues to provide a 'stage for risk-taking and the exploration of non- conventional sound' and to present a 'relevant boundary-breaking artistic work.' (The Tank NYC)
Roulette presents the 17-piece The Bill Horvitz Expanded Band performing music from the new CD, The Long Walk, a suite of pieces composed as a tribute to Bill's brother Philip Horvitz, who passed away of heart failure in 2005 at the age of 44. The music includes a wide range of styles drawing on jazz, funk, folk, and new music. The concert is set for tonight, June 30, 2013 at 6 p.m.
