Harlem Stage Artist Circle Member, MacArthur Fellow and award winning composer and pianist, Vijay Iyer and pioneering composer and trumpeter, Doris Duke Performing Artist Award winner, and Pulitzer finalist Wadada Leo Smith join forces once again to present an intimate live performance based around their highly acclaimed duo album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke.
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will open a new exhibition October 15th. Wadada Leo Smith: Ankhrasmation, the Language Scores 1967-2015 answers positively the question, 'Can a musical score be transformed into a work of art?'
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens the 2016-17 Jazz series with the Vijay Iyer Trio, featuring Vijay Iyer, piano, Stephan Crump, bass, and Tyshawn Sorey, drums, on Saturday, October 22, 2016, 8:00 p.m. at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street).
As prolific as he is provocative, John Zorn returns to Composer Portraits with five new works, all slated to receive their world premiere performances. A dream team of new music superstars comes together to give voice to Zorn's newest creations, affirming once more the depth and breadth of his musical palette, which draws on punk, jazz, klezmer, classical, and other genres-spanning continents and centuries.
Spectrum Listings for September 2016 SPECTRUM 121 LUDLOW STREET, 2nd FLOOR New York, NY Subway: F, M, J & Z trains to Essex/Delancey station Admission left to artist discretion: usually $15; $10 Students & Seniors Spectrum
On March 18, 2016, The Met will launch its inaugural season at The Met Breuer, its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
On March 18, 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art invites the public to celebrate the opening of The Met Breuer with three days of special programs inaugurating its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
Carnegie Hall presents the pioneering Kronos Quartet in a program of new works, including two world premieres, on Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall. Aleksandra Vrebalov's open-form piece, My Desert, My Rose, and Yotam Haber's South Africa-inspired break_break_break will receive their world premieres. The program also includes New York premieres of works by Nicole Lizee, N. Rajam, Wu Man, Karin Rehnqvist, Fode Lassana Diabate, and Albert Behar. A new arrangement by Jacob Garchik of 'Baba O'Reilly,' Pete Townshend's classic song for The Who, is also featured. Guest artists include kantele (Finnish zither) player Ritva Koistinen and electronic artist Philip White. Complete program information is listed below.
On March 18, 2016, The Met will launch its inaugural season at The Met Breuer, its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
The Metropolitan Museum recently announced new performances and talks as part of the spring 2016 season. Leading with live arts by visionary artists, the 2015-16 season has presented unexpected and adventurous offerings in new spaces, and this spring, that line of singular programming will continue with newly added events.
Clinton Hill cultural hub and OBIE award-winner JACK launches its winter/spring 2016 season with an a cappella opera set in Zimbabwe by composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a weekend of curated works by Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, the premiere of the dirty and bracing play Tom & Eliza, by Celine Song, the English-language premiere of Argentinian playwright Rafael Spregelburd's SPAM, The Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman, Antonio Ramos' Thirsty Mind, love and starvation sitting in a lonely tree and an exploration in minimalist/pop art performance by the No Face Performance Group. JACK also engineers the return of Walter Dundervill's ARENA (which had two sold-out runs at JACK in 2014 and 2015).
On March 18, 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art invites the public to celebrate the opening of The Met Breuer with three days of special programs inaugurating its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
The Amernet String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at FIU, will lead the inaugural year of the FIU Jewish music series – a five-part concert series entitled “Journey Through Sound: Exploring Jewish Life Through Music.” (Cick here for more information: http://bit.ly/JewishMusicSeries) Presented in partnership by both the FIU School of Music and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (JMOF-FIU), the collaboration will feature relevant exhibitions and a varied program of music from distinguished guest artists, members of the Florida Grand Opera (FGO), FIU alumni, and the Amernet String Quartet.
The Amernet String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at FIU, will lead the inaugural year of the FIU Jewish music series – a five-part concert series entitled “Journey Through Sound: Exploring Jewish Life Through Music.” (Cick here for more information: http://bit.ly/JewishMusicSeries) Presented in partnership by both the FIU School of Music and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (JMOF-FIU), the collaboration will feature relevant exhibitions and a varied program of music from distinguished guest artists, members of the Florida Grand Opera (FGO), FIU alumni, and the Amernet String Quartet.
La MaMa in association with Object Collection presents cheap&easy OCTOBER by Object Collection, Written/Directed by Kara Feely, Composed by Travis Just, October 9-18, 2015.
Composer Paola Prestini, the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust (NS), today announced programming for the non-profit's inaugural fall season in its new home-a $16 million, 13,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art chamber hall in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The performance and recording venue, designed by Brooklyn-based architecture firm Bureau V in the shell of century-old former sawdust factory, will provide composers and musicians a setting in which they can flourish, and a place where they are given commissioning support, mentoring and other critical resources essential to create, and then share, their work. For audiences-serious fans and casual listeners alike-the venue will be a place to discover genre-spanning music at accessible ticket prices.
John King's residency at The Stone is an immersion into works from the past 20 years from his catalogue, including 7 world premieres performed by FLUX and Secret Quartets, TILT Brass, String Noise, Jenny Lin, Jeanann Dara and Carol To.
Roulette presents Andrew Drury who will celebrate the release of his two new CD's, Content Provider & The Drum. The concert, tonight, February 17, will feature Briggan Krauss, Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Seabrook, and Andrew Drury.
Roulette presents Andrew Drury who will celebrate the release of his two new CD's, Content Provider & The Drum. The concert, Tuesday, February 17, will feature Briggan Krauss, Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Seabrook, and Andrew Drury.
Roulette presents the Tyshawn Sorey Trio featuring Cory Smythe, piano, Christopher Tordini, bass and Tyshawn Sorey, drums, trombone, compositions tonight, December 10 at 8pm.
Videos
