Otto Luening News

On Saturday, June 24th at 6pm, Composers Concordance will present its fourth annual concert event at the historic Howland Cultural Center - the first building in the City of Beacon, New York to receive the distinction of being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Joel Grey and John Kander will each receive the 2023 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

Bloomingdale School of Music continues its 2022/23 Free Faculty Concert Series at the David Greer Concert Hall in May and June.

On May 13th Composers Concordance will present A to Z Electronic, the third concert of its 11th annual festival, entitled 'What's In a Name?'.

On Saturday, May 6th at 6pm, in collaboration with Queens New Music Festival, Composers Concordance will present Guitars & Poems, a unique concert featuring the CompCord Ensemble and 5 poets combining contemporary compostions and poetry in a chamber music setting.

On Saturday, April 29th at 2:30pm, in collaboration with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, Composers Concordance presents Bagels & Brass, a unique concert featuring eGALitarian Brass Quintet, David Taylor Trombone Ensemble, Trombonist Craig Harris, and fresh homemade bagels courtesy of Jessica Bowers.

On Saturday, April 29th at 2:30pm, in collaboration with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, Composers Concordance presents Bagels & Brass, a unique concert featuring eGALitarian Brass Quintet, David Taylor Trombone Ensemble, Trombonist Craig Harris, and fresh homemade bagels courtesy of Jessica Bowers!

On Sunday, April 23rd at 6pm, Composers Concordance presents the B3+ Brass Trio with special guests including tap/body percussionist Max Pollak.

On March 8th at 7:30pm, Composers Concordance will present Generations XII, the 12th annual concert featuring the winners of the Generations Composition Competition. This year's winners are Paul Novak of Chicago (Cat A: 25 years old or younger) for his composition Three Night Pieces, and Lee McClure of New York City (Cat B: 65 years old or older) for his composition Pocket Suite No.1.

On March 16th at 8:30pm, Composers Concordance will present the program 'Ludwig's Night Out'. World-renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will join the eclectic band Sound Liberation in a program inspired by Gene Pritsker's composition 'Ludwig's Night Out'. The idea of this composition is that Beethoven has a night out on the town while his Sonata No. 4 (for violin & piano) is echoing in his mind.

On February 3rd at 6pm, Composers Concordance & Composers Concordance Records will present a CD release event for the album 'Dave & Gene Duo'.

What includes a taste of Italy's vibrant dance scene and a new, contemporary spin on the classic ballet The Nutcracker? That would be Dance NOW! Miami's Program I, on Saturday, December 10, when this leading Florida ensemble world premieres their new piece Clara and share the stage with Compagnia Opus Ballet, direct from Florence for their U.S. debut. Taking place at the Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores, the evening will be an unusual – and racy – season performance.

On October 14th at 7pm at Gallery MC, Composers Concordance will present a Live concert of the podcast 'Composers With Drinks Listening To Music'.  Hosts Gene Pritsker and Seth Boustead discuss a featured alcohol, listen to music centered around a theme, and talk about the sounds they hear as the alcohol loosens their inhibitions.

​​​​​​​The Anthology of Recorded Music today releases a Composer's Recordings, Inc. (CRI) digital re-release of Harry Partch's The Bewitched (1955) with new artwork by New York photographer Reuben Radding and a commissioned essay by Marc Sabat, paired with a newly commissioned composition, Taylor Brook's Block (2022), on New World Records .

On October 8th at 7pm at Kostabi World, Composers Concordance will present a multidisciplinary event combining three P's of creativity:'Pianos, Poems, & Paintings'.

Composers Concordance will launch its 2022-23 season! The new site is now live.

On June 25th at 8pm ET, contemporary vocal music and poetry recitations intertwine on Composers Concordance’s concert event entitled ‘Operas, Songs, & Poems.’ This 3rd annual collaboration between NYC and Beacon artists will be held at the Howland Cultural Center, which was the first building in the City of Beacon to receive the distinction of being placed on the National Register of Historic Places. David Amram’s 'Pull my Daisy Reimagined,’ Faye-Ellen Silverman’s 'Channeling Twain: Advice for Our Time,’ Debra Kaye’s ‘Snow’, and Gene Pritsker’s ‘The Meeting’, a mini-opera on a story by Roger Aplon, will be featured.

On Thursday, June 9th at 7pm at Greenwich House, Composers Concordance presents a piano-based concert entitled 'Variations,' focusing on Variation Form, including the myriad ways it remains central to music composition in the 21st century.

CompCord Jazz Ensemble, part of the new music organization Composers Concordance, will perform on Friday, April 15 as part of the Harlem Jazz Boxx Creative Music Series at Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church, at West 137th and Malcolm X Blvd.

Bloomingdale School of Music will present The Piano Music of Ed Bland, a free online faculty concert, on Friday, February 18, 2022 at 7pm. In honor of Black History Month, faculty member Judith Olson will perform works by African American composer Ed Bland (1926-2013), with whom she worked for many years.