Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde at DiMenna Center

NYU Composer Concert
New works for brass by
Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde

Saturday, April 27, 2024
6:00pm

DiMenna Center – Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

TILT Brass premieres two new works for brass and live-electronics and sound projection by NYU graduate composer’s Cecila Lopez and Trevor Van de Velde. This is a shared program with our friends in Talea Ensemble.

TILT Personnel
Chris DiMeglio, Joe Moffett – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – tuba

Carnegie Hall Presents:
American Composers Orchestra
America in Weimar: On the Margins

Tuesday, March 12, 2024
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall

Performers
American Composers Orchestra
Rei Hotoda, Conductor and Piano
Chrystal E. Williams, Mezzo-Soprano
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate, Narrator and Vocals
Felipe Hostins, Accordion
Alexandra Cuesta, Video Design

Carnegie Hall Event Page

Program
ANTHEIL Jazz Symphony

ELLINGTON "Sophisticated Lady" (arr. M. Gould)

WEILL/BRECHT "Pirate Jenny" from The Threepenny Opera (arr. Felipe Hostins; World Premiere)

JOHN GLOVER / KELLEY ROURKE Right Now (World Premiere)

ELLINGTON "Solitude" (arr. M. Gould)

TONIA KO Her Land, Expanded (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

JEROD IMPICHCHA̲ACHAAHA' TATE "Clans" from Lowak Shoppala' (NY Premire) 

SUNDAY, DEC 17 - 5:00pm
Christmas in Nickyland 2023: The Return
Curated and Hosted by Nicky Paraiso

CJM performing with Yoshiko Chuma & School of Hard Knocks
including Jason Kao Hwang, Tim Clifford, and Ri Tornello

The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, East Village

La Mama Event Page

Either/Or presents:
Time | Again
Friday Decemeber 8th, 2023, 8:00pm

University Settlement Speyer Hall
184 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002

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TICKETS

Either/Or continues its 2023-24 season with a concert of two longform works featuring the world premiere of a newly commissioned piece by rising star composer Victoria Cheah, and Henning Christiansen’s classic 1970 Fluxus “tape piece” Requiem of Art (fluxum organum II) Opus 50, realized for ensemble by UK artist Anton Lukoszevieze.

PROGRAM

Victoria Cheah new work (2023) [world premiere]
for violin, cello, trombone, electronics

Henning Christiansen Requiem of Art (NYC) (fluxorum organum II) (1970/2014)
Score realization & soundtrack by Anton Lukoszevieze 
 

Detail from Joanna Ward's London plane tree hid me from the sun (2022)

Either/Or presents:
Sowings & Affinities
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023, 8:00pm

University Settlement Speyer Hall
184 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002

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On November 15th, Either/Or returns to University Settlement’s historic Speyer Hall with an expansive program of works created by an international group of individual compositional voices. Comprised primarily of pieces written since 2000, the concert introduces new voices to the EO fold (Hannah Kendall, Leroy Jenkins), deepens several recently established relationships (Inga Chinilina, Joanna Ward, Jō Kondō), and pays homage to the great Kaija Saariaho. This event also features a special guest appearance by Downtown legend Kathleen Supové.

PROGRAM
Hannah Kendall Tuxedo: Crown; Sun King (2021) violin solo
Jō Kondō Forme semée (1982)* trombone & piano
Inga Chinilina Wear And Tear (2020) percussion solo
Kaija Saariaho Dolce Tormento (2004) piccolo solo
Leroy Jenkins Thar He (2002) violin & piano
Joanna Ward A London plane tree hid me from the sun (2022)* tutti
* US Premieres

PERFORMERS
Jennifer Choi, violin; Russell Greenberg, percussion; Christopher McIntyre, trombone; John Popham, cello; Special guest - Kathleen Supové, piano 
 

FOREST SONG
Conceived/Originated by John Hastings

Saturday, October 14, 2023: 2pm & 4pm
Sunday, October 15, 2023: 1pm & 3pm
Each performance approx. 60 minutes

Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, New York:
A to Inwood / 207 or 1 to 215th St. Enter at Shorakkopoch Rock [map]

Forest Song is a free music performance that takes place in the last, original site of Pre-Columbian Mannahatta: Inwood Hill Park. Nestled within a valley, near ancient glacial potholes, caves, and cold springs, musicians are spread throughout the forest, performing a variety of sonic materials. Harmonies are reflected, words appear, and the melodies from revolutionary hymns are re-cycled, all conjuring a human and arboreal conversation. A Forest Song gathers everyone together over distance, a unitary statement that underscores the fundamental relationships that foster all our existences in this world. Over the course of an hour performance, the audience is free to wander the park, to hear the musicians at a distance, while also observing them close-by.

Myths and stories swirl around our forests, some of them fanciful and fantastic, others feed into age-old tropes of colonial settlement. They have been many things to humans: a source of fuel, shelter, fear. They are a place of mystery and repose. Forest Song takes these many iterations of human conception of the forest to fashion a poly-narrative: a Native American home, a European folk drama, a technocratic “shelterbelt”, and now a conserved piece of our future. Forests are a mirror for humans: the reflection of our wants and desires throughout our years of existence.

Featuring:
TILT Brass: Christopher McIntyre - trombone, James Rogers - trombone, Nicolee Kuester - horn, Blair Hamrick - horn, Rebecca Steinberg - trumpet, Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
with
Iván Barenboim - clarinet, Katie Porter - clarinet, Jessica Schmitz - flute, Eva Ding - flute, Casey Anderson - saxophone

The Team:
John P. Hastings - originator; Aaron Meicht - music director, trumpet; Carolina Gomez - costuming; Benjamin Mayock - design; Shannon Sindelar - producer; Michelle Tabnick - PR 

Forest Song is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement , a regrant program supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council ,and administered by LMCC. This project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), and administered by LMCC.

EarShot Readings: 2023 ACO’s Public Readings in NYC at New School Tishman Auditorium

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Program:
Younje Cho – Feast of Particles
Henry Dorn – …i forgot to say good morning today
Brittany J. Green – Rencontres for orchestra
Oswald Huỳnh – Gia Đình
Amy Nam – Mimi’s Song
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei – (گر آتش بارد به پیکرم) Hommage à Khāleqī

American Composers Orchestra
Tito Muñoz, conductor  

Jun 1, 2023 - Jun 11, 2023
Shockwave Delay
Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks

La Mama Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor New York, NY 10003

La Mama Event Page
>>CJM performance dates June 1, 4, 8, 10<<

From Roulette's Event Page:
"This is a collective celebration of Mort Subotnick’s 90th birthday, from friends, family, former students, and those who have been significantly influenced by his music and innovations. Mort’s music and ideas are central to all that will be presented, including excerpts from his compositions and music from his seminal works (Silver Apples, Butterfly series, Wild Bull, etc.). Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media.

performing live:
SooJin Anjou
David Behrman
Shelley Burgon
Miguel Frasconi
Earl Howard
John King
Joan La Barbara
Chris McIntyre
Ikue Mori
David Simons

speaking live:
Jill Fraser
George Lewis
Hunter Ochs

in-lobby sound installation:
John Morton

video tributes:
Rhys Chatham
Suzanne Ciani
Mark Coniglio
Peter Grenader & Jill Fraser
Ralph Grierson
Charlemagne Palestine
Curtis Roads
David Rosenboom
Ramon Sender
Carl Stone
Lois V Vierk
Willie Winant/Zeena Parkins/Brendan Glasson

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.

Phill Niblock: 6 Hours of Music and Film
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
6:00 pm
Roulette event page

As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill Niblock stages his annual Winter Solstice concert. Starting at 6pm, the performance will comprise six sublime hours of acoustic and electronic music and mixed media film and video in a live procession that charts the movement of our planet and the progress of ourselves through art and performance at its maximal best.

Niblock’s minimalistic drone approach to composition and music was inspired by the musical and artistic activities of New York in the 1960s, from the art of Mark Rothko, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris to the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Niblock’s music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations.

Third Eye Orchestra 15th Anniversary Concert
Sunday, December 11, 2022⋅8:00pm

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As part of the Third Eye Orchestra’s 15th Anniversary the ensemble performs Hans Tammen’s RODINIA, a one-hour work that revisits some of his compositional strategies and ideas from the last 15 years. Borrowing from Charles Ives’ polytonality, Steve Coleman’s rhythmic complexity, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s organization of sounds, and Earle Brown’s approach to form, the music of the Third Eye Orchestra is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear.

The ensemble is organized in groups combining a variety of instrumental sonorities, i.e. horns, strings, and keyboards. Occasionally groups are trading phrases in a way to allow the music to flow from left to right and vice versa.

Performers:
Shelley Hirsch – voice

SECTION I:
Sarah Bernstein – violin
Dafna Naphtali – soprano / live sound processing
Sarah Manning – alto sax
Tomas Ullrich – cello
Ursel Schlicht & Denman Maroney – piano

SECTION II:
Jason Hwang – violin
Nick Didkovsky – guitar
Briggan Krauss – alto sax, baritone sax
Michael Schumacher – fender rhodes
Ned Rothenberg – clarinet, bassclarinet

SECTION: III:
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Chris McIntyre – trombone
Brian Landrus – bass saxophone
Gordon Beeferman – organ
Michael Lytle – clarinet, bassclarinet

SECTION IV:
Shoko Nagai – moog bass
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
Hans Tammen – composition, binary conducting

Pioneer Works: False Harmonics #12
TILT Brass & Zeena Parkins
7:00p Doors
8:00p Performance
$20 adv. $25 day-of
PW Event Page

Performing music by Julius Eastman, Phill Niblock, and Zeena Parkins
Featuring compositions & solo set by Ms. Parkins (harp)
Special guests James Fei (analog electronics) and Josh Henderson (violin)

Brooklyn’s own TILT Brass presents a program of works by legendary New York composers including the premiere of a new transcription of Julius Eastman’s brutalist If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (1977) for a 13 piece orchestra of brass, strings, and chimes (featuring violinist Josh Henderson), the premiere of TILT’s massed brass version of Phill Niblock’s Exploratory (2019), and Zeena Parkins’ Whistling in the Dark Wind (2019) for TILT Brass sextet and two improvisers (Parkins on harp & polymath musician James Fei on analog electronics.) Ms. Parkins will also present a solo harp set of two new works, one of her own creation, the other by her Mills College composer colleague John Bischoff.

Images: TILT Brass by Stefan Rudata; Zeena Parkins by Jeff Preiss; Julius Eastman by ©David Oliver; Phill Niblock by Ramin Talaie; Josh Henderson by Kristofer Bergman

Minimalistic classic by the late queer afro-american composer Julius Eastman, who is currently experiencing a posthumous renaissance. Femenine is performed by New York-based Talea Ensemble.

TALEA ENSEMBLE
Barry Crawford, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Adrian Morejon, bassoon
David Friend, piano
Mike Truesdell, percussion
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Chris Gross, cello
Chris McIntyre, syntethizator, conductor
Greg Chudzik, bass

On Thursday May 19, 2022 at 8:30pm in Tenri Cultural Institute (new time and location!), EO presents Variegates & Reactivities, a program of solos, duos, and ensemble works from an expansive group of creative perspectives. This cohort of composers represents continuing musical dialogs (Grisey, Hakim, and Chacon) and newly initiated investigations (Bland, Da Costa, and Lou) for the group.

Featuring EO flutist Margaret Lancaster and stellar guest performer Madison Greenstone on clarinet, Talib Rasul Hakim’s (1940-88) Duo is a special addition to EO’s growing TRH repertoire (initiated in Nov ‘21). This work introduced Hakim’s music (then Stephen A. Chambers) to the NYC music community during a Music In Our Time concert at Town Hall in 1965. Greenstone’s learned performance of Gérard Grisey’s classic Deux Pièces pour Clarinette Contrebasse builds on previous EO presentations from the Frenchman’s oeuvre including "Solo pour Deux" (1981) and Périodes (1974). In December ‘21, EO took its initial step into the idiosyncratic creative world of composer, performer, and current Whitney Biennial artist, Raven Chacon with Whisper Trio, a brief, barely audible recitation in Diné (Chacon is a citizen of the Navajo Nation.) In the program note for his 2004 graphic score …lahgo adil’i… (the full title translates to “acting differently in the presence of strangers'') Chacon says the piece is “a reaction to some listeners (or performers of my early works) believing that they should be hearing some kind of ‘Native American influence’ in my music. Whatever that meant (to them). So this piece puts that burden into the hands of white performers, as that is who is the majority in music institutions in this country.” For EO’s realization, Chacon will visually guide the group through the score while the individual players consider their own interpretive paths.

Each of the three composers on the program that are new to the EO fold use very personal, distinctive languages in their compositions. Noel Da Costa (1929-2002) was a Jamaican-American artist and educator born in Nigeria. In 1967, Da Costa co-founded the Society for Black Composers with Mr. Hakim and a number of others. He was also deeply involved in the important Symphony for the New World as a performer, composer, and organizer. Trombonist and event Curator *Chris McIntyre* recently retrieved Da Costa’s 4 Preludes from the Library of Congress and he’ll be joined by EO’s Director Richard Carrick on piano in its first performance in decades. Ed Bland’s (1926-2013) career was also quite diverse, straddling the various worlds of concert music, literary criticism, filmmaking, film and TV composing, and beyond. He made a number of flute pieces, of which For Flute (to be performed by Ms. Lancaster) is the most virtuosic and visceral. Finally, EO delves into the singular realm of 2018 Rome Prize winner Michelle Lou’s music. Lou’s bio states that her work “studies the possibilities of how strange form(s), functioning as behavior/as odd containers of strange objects/material can shape experiential time.” Outlines for bass flute (Lancaster), bass clarinet (Greenstone), and horn (Nicolee Kuester) articulates these preoccupations by using audio phone apps, tone generators, wine glasses, and more to alter and skew static instrumental sounds, along with time and listening itself.

PROGRAM
Talib Rasul Hakim Duo (1963) for Flute and Clarinet
Gérard Grisey Deux Pièces pour Clarinette Contrebasse (1983)
Ed Bland For Flute (1980)
Noel Da Costa 4 Preludes (1973) for Trombone and Piano
Michelle Lou Outlines (2017, rev. '22) for Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet and Horn
Raven Chacon …lahgo adil’i dine dooyeehosinilgii yidaaghi (2004) open instrumentation

PERFORMERS
Margaret Lancaster - Flutes
Madison Greenstone - Clarinets
Nicolee Kuester - Horn
Christopher McIntyre - Trombone
Richard Carrick - Piano
Raven Chacon - conductor