TILT SIXtet & Chris Jonas' the Sun Spits Cherries
Issue Project Room
Opening night of Horn Week, co-curated by Chris McIntyre

TILT SIXtet
Russ Johnson & Nate Wooley - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring & Chris McIntyre - trombone
John Altieri & Joe Exley - tuba
John King - laptop
Chris Jonas - soprano sax & conduction

TILT Brass' SIXtet project reconvenes for opening night IPR's Horn Week with music from composer, guitarist and Cunningham Co. music co-director John King, TILT's own Chris McIntyre, and a new work by soprano sax phenom Chris Jonas.

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L to R: CJM, John King (back), Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley (back),
John Altieri, Russ Johnson, Chris Jonas, Joe Exley

Zach Layton's series celebrates its 4th anniversary with the annual performance of Terry Riley's In C. Featuring a real who's who, this will be the Darmstadt in Galapagos' the Williamsburg space prior to moving to DUMBO.

NY Times Review (including image with CJM)

Ne(x)tworks traces the course of graphic scores from the 1960s to the present. This compelling array of works includes a 1961 score by Cornelius Cardew, groundbreaking works from by innovators Wadada Leo Smith and ensemble member Joan La Barbara, and Michael Shcumacher's Isometric Variations, commissioned by Ne(x)works in 2007. These scores will also be exhibited as part of the Kitchen's graphic score exhibition Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music. Concieved by Alex Waterman, co-curated with Deb Singer and Matthew Lyons.

Wadada Leo Smith :: In the Diaspora (2005)Joan La Barbara :: Circular Song (1975)
Joan La Barbara :: in the shadow and act of the haunting place (1995)Michael Schumacher:: Grid (2007)
Cornelius Cardew :: Octet '61 for Jasper Johns (1961)

2007 MATA Benefit

..::Celebrating MATA's 10th Anniversary and honoring co-founder Philip Glass during his 70th Birthday year. An amazing musical gathering: Jenny Lin performing Julia Wolfe's toy piano juggernaut East Broadway, Lukas Ligeti offering a sample of his electronic hybrid instrument Marimba Lumina, Carla Kihlstedt singing and bowing Lisa Bielawa's powerful Kafka Songs, and Annie Gosfield playing her gorgeous sounds, and a lot more.

,:Program:.Julia Wolfe: East Broadway for toy piano and toy boombox
Jenny Lin - toy piano

Lukas Ligeti: Great Circle's Tune for electronic percussion
composer - percussion & electronics

Daniel Bernard Roumain: Hip-Hop Study and Etude in F Minor
composer - violin, Wynne Bennett - piano

Annie Gosfield: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, part II
composer - keyboard, sampler

Theo Bleckmann: anteroom (excerpt)
composer - voice and electronics

Gordon Beeferman: MATA Sonata
composer - piano

INT

Philip Glass: Knee Play No.5 from Einstein On The Beach
Patrick Stewart, Joan La Barbara, Grethe Holby - speakers;
Lisa Bielawa, Katie Geissinger - voice; Carla Kihlstedt - violin;
Eleonor Sandresky - keyboard

Derek Bermel: Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet
composer - clarinet

Carla Kihlstedt: The Squonk & Hold My Own
composer - violin/voice, Lisa Bielawa - voice

Nick Brooke: You Feel This from Tone Test
Genevieve Belleveau - voice

Eleonor Sandresky: Conversation 1
composer - piano, computer playback

Lisa Bielawa: Selections from Kafka Songs
Carla Kihlstedt - voice & violin

Phil Klin:e Near-Perfect Clarity & The Funeral of Jan Palach
Theo Bleckmann - voice, Kathy Supové - piano  

The setting is a 50 foot red runway in 1967. Come and see what can happen. Two trombones, one double bass and a shiny black grand piano. Dancers will pass by in 1967 fashionwear.

The presentation will begin at 6 pm and extend into the darkness. Yoshiko Chuma's "Red Carpet 1967" will alternate with 15-minute pieces by Gus Solomons, Merian Soto and Elaine Summers. (The works by Chuma, Solomons and Soto will appear twice; the work by Summers will apppear once, at the close.) The works would be site specific in the South Plaza.

NY Times Review of 60's Snapshots event 

Trombonophilia Finale - A Stone BenefitThe rousing closing event of the month long trombone festival featuring many of NYC's stellar practitioners of the posaune!

Steve Swell, CJM, Johannes Lauer, Scott Reeves - trombone

Dialogics

8 pm Music of Jon Gibson [with composer performing]
Song 1 (saxophone, string quartet)Untitled (flute, trombone, violin)
Multiples (full ensemble)

10 pm
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (violin, trombone, keyboard, electronics, perc.)
Arthur Russell - The Singing Tractors (full ensemble)
Julius Eastman - Stay On It (full ensemble) 

The Stone
Corner of E. 2nd St & Ave C, NYC

Taking place over two night in June 2007, ALL TILT was four sets of music written specifically for its unique instrumentation and aesthetic, including the first performance of four commissioned works. In addition to previously premiered works by TILT family members and composer friends, including such luminaries as Anthony Coleman, Kevin Norton, and Dave Ballou, ALL TILT will feature the premiere of four newly commissioned works. Commissionees include frequent TILT participants Curtis Hasselbring and Nate Wooley, and two colleagues from the field, Charles Waters and Taylor Ho Bynum.

PROGRAM
* indicates first-performances
15th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Enduring Heart
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*

10:00
Anthony Coleman - Set Into Motion
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*

16th
8:00
Kevin Norton - Folk Medicine
Taylor Ho Bynum - preharmonic, postchordal, revamped*
Charles Waters - Concertimento #12*

10:00
Dave Ballou - Concerto for TILT
Nate Wooley - There was this shadow, this double*
Curtis Hasselbring - Brass Piece*

PERSONNEL
Russ Johnson, Shane Endsley, Sycil Mathai - trumpet
Joe Fiedler, Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik - trombone 
John Clark, Ann Ellsworth - French horn
Ron Caswell - tuba
Kevin Norton - percussion
Greg Evans - conductor

Special Guest
Pandelis Karayorgis - solo piano on Water's Concertimento #12

COMPOSERS
Dave Ballou, Taylor Ho Bynum, Anthony Coleman, Curtis Hasselbring, Kevin Norton, Charles Waters, Nate Wooley

Anthony Coleman (piano, electronics), CJM (trombone), James Fei (alto sax), Ashley Paul (sop sax) Eli Keszler (drums)

John Zorn (sax) CJM (trombone) and many special guestsCome and support The Stone! TWENTY DOLLARS

Composer and impresario John Zorn has invited CJM to curate the month of June at The Stone. More details will be available in the coming weeks, but several events are already in the works:

• Trombonophilia - Month-long series/festival featuring an amazing roster of projects by NYC's extraordinarily deep pool of trombonist/composer/band leaders

• TILT Brass Band: ALL TILT - Newly commissioned works by band memebers and composer friends receive first performances over two nights.

• Ne(x)tworks Residency - 10th, 17th, & 24th. Includes premieres by group members Shelley Burgon, Yves Dharamraj, Miguel Frasconi, and Ariana Kim.

PROGRAM

improvisation
CJM - stuplimity no.3
Philip Glass - 1+1
Fredric Rzewski - Last Judgment
improvisation

Listen to entire performance on Archive.org

Ne(x)tworks celebrates both the release of Tracer, a new CD/DVD on MODE Records, and the 80th birthday of the revered American composer Earle Brown with a full program of chamber works at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM). The program, entitled An Earle Brown Retrospective, will highlight Ne(x)tworks' singular approach to Brown’s music, and features the ensemble and several of its stellar members.

Read the NY Times review

CJM reenters MJS' Room Piece at Diapason with cellist Alex Waterman and Schumacher himself on piano and electronics.