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Vivian Adelberg Rudow’s electronic score Weeping Rocker will be presented as part of performances by choreographer Nancy Wanich Romita and dancers on Saturday, October 17, 4 and 7:30 PM at the Center for the Arts of Towson University, 8000 York Road in Towson, Maryland.

Weeping Rocker for tape and dance was written in 1992. The piece was commissioned was Nancy Wanich Romita in memory of her father who died of Alzheimers. The composer also wrote the piece in memory of those who die from Alzheimers and other degenerate diseases.

Dance performers will be Towson alumni and area dance companies including Full Circle Dance Company, The Collective, Kinetics and the newly reformed Moving Company.

Nancy Wanich Romita is celebrating her 25th year with Towson University as her artistic home. This performance is a retrospective of her unique blend of humor and humanism through dance.

Tickets for the 4 PM performance are $15; tickets for the 7:30 PM performance & reception are by donation- BOTH SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT. All proceeds benefit the Towson University Dance Department Endowment. For more about other Towson University arts and cultural events, visit http://www.towson.edu/main/artsculture/.

Read Vivian Rudow’s newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/may09/VR_nws_051809.pdf. Her website is at http://www.vivianadelbergrudow.com/.

On October 29th, Newspeak will kick off its fifth anniversary season with a special late-night show at The Stone, part of a fantastic series of events curated by downtown diva Kathleen Supové.  We will offer four world premiere works, presented in order of increasing darkness/heaviness as we approach the witching hour, in honor of Halloween.   Not to be missed is Matt Marks’ “A Portrait of Glenn Beck,”  a re-imagining of Beck’s (in)famous 9/12 speech.

Program:

William Brittelle, Pegasus in Alcatraz (world premiere)
Matt Marks -  A Portrait of Glenn Beck (world premiere)
Dmitri Tymoczko, Let The Bodies Hit The Floor (world premiere)
Lisa Coons, Accessorizing The Soft Machine (world premiere, revision)
Pat Muchmore – Brennschluß

Newspeak at The Stone
October 29th, 2009 @ 10 pm
The Stone, Corner of Ave C and 2nd St.
F,V to 2nd Ave/Lower East Side; J, M, Z to Essex/Delancey
Tickets: $10

Newspeak is: Taylor Levine, electric guitar; Yuri Yamashita, percussion; Caleb Burhans, violin, voice; Brian Snow, cello, bass; Mellissa Hughes, voice, electronics; David T. Little, director, drums; James Johnston, synthesizer; Eileen Mack, co-director, clarinets.

Photo: Stephen Taylor

Dear fellow composers & musicians,

On Tuesday October 2o from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. I’m hosting another Composer Salon at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope (227 4th Avenue-take the M, R Train to Union Street, Lyceum is above station). The first one was a lively and fun discussion and I hope the next one is just as interesting.

If you don’t know, a Composer Salon is just a relaxed gathering of any composers and musicians, regardless of genre in order to eat, drink, discuss a particular topic, listen to some music and/or hang. Here’s a link to my blog for all of the details, including the next topic question titled Future Past Present. So if you are interested and available next Tuesday the 20th, please consider coming down or if you can’t (or don’t live in NYC) joining the discussion by commenting on the topic on my the blog. How often does a gathering like this happen in NYC, so come out, if you can, and support the musician’s love! Maybe I’ll see some of you on the 20th.

Joe Phillips
www.numinousmusic.com
www.numinousmusic.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/Numinousmusic

Also coming up in October:

Numinous performs Vipassana
Wednesday October 28, 2009 8 PM (one set only)
$10
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue
Park Slope
Take the M, R Train to Union Street

Check out the Inside Vipassana series at my blog…

Northport, NY – The critically-acclaimed Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble will be in concert on Saturday, October 17 , 6:00 PM at the Salmagundi Club and Center for American Art, 47 Fifth Avenue at 11^th Street in Manhattan.

Repertoire for this concert will include Joe Russo’s Distant Light and Marjan Mozetich’s Angels in Flight for flute, harp and strings. Both of these pieces are for seven players, and will include guest artists David Dunn on clarinet, and Amy Iwazumi on violin. Michael Colina’s Mambosa and Vincent D’Indy’s Suite for harp quintet (harp, flute, violin, viola, and cello) will also be performed.

Tickets for the October 17 concert are $20. For reservations and information, please call the Salmagundi Club at 212-255-7740 or visit http://www.salmagundi.org/.

Visit Canta Libre at http://www.cantalibre.org/.

Internationally renowned violin virtuoso Kelly Hall-Tompkins will be in concert on Friday, October 16, 8:00 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan.

Presented by Musik House, Ms. Hall-Tompkins will be joined by pianist Craig Ketter for a program including Schubert’s Duo Sonata in A Major, op. 162, J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 2 in d minor, BWV 1004, Richard Strauss’ Sonata in E Flat Major, op. 16, and works by Gluck/Kreisler and Wieniawski/Kreisler.

Also featured will be contemporary composer Philip Lasser’s Chaconne Variations. A faculty member of The Juilliard School, he has crafted a unique sound world, blending the colors of French Impressionist sonorities with the sounds and rhythms of America’s musical palette.

Tickets for the October 16 concert are $28-$40 and can be purchased by calling Carnegie Charge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting http://www.carnegiehall.org.

Ms. Hall-Tompkins website is at http://www.kellyhall-tompkins.com.

Reflecting on both literal and figurative definitions of flight and flying, FORMS OF FLIGHT presents works for solo and two clarinets in a virtuosic program by established and emerging composers of our time. This program is the result of the collaborative work between founding founding clarinetists of ai ensemble of New York (Alejandro Acierto) and Anaphora ensemble of Chicago (Cory Tiffin) who met while completing their degrees at DePaul University in Chicago. Acierto and Tiffin will be performing works by George Flynn, Augusta Read Thomas, Olivier Messiaen, Giacinto Scelsi, Alejandro T. Acierto, Francis Poulenc, Elliott Carter, Jeffrey Young

Lower East Side Performing Arts, Inc., Elodie Lauten, Director, presents the first two performances of the third season of the Op on Screen Festival on Thursday, October 15 at 6 PM and Saturday, October 17 at 2 PM at the Hamilton Fish Park Branch of the New York Public Library, 415 Houston Street (near Ave D) in Manhattan.

This years’ focus will be Interactive/Inter-Generation Performances. The first two presentations are as follows:

October 15 – Rainbow Resonance is an interactive performance installation by Sofia Paraskeva, where the audience is encouraged to stand in front of a screen where simple vertical and horizontal movements can trigger a personal experience of sounds and colors. The installation is a “computer vision” interactive art project that generates the mapping of colors to musical compositions through equivalent sound frequencies according to a software program created by the artist.

October 17 – Voices for Speakers by Lesley Flanigan uses vocalizations and feedback technology to create an interactive sound environment. This is a 30′ performance for custom-made speakers producing musical feedback sounds combined with vocalizations to create an immersive sound environment of intersecting tones, melodies, and rhythms that relate speaker amplification and the human voice to dimensions of space and communication.

All performances are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212-388-0202 or visit http://www.lesperformingarts.org/ for complete schedule and program information.

This program, curated by NYU Interactive Technology graduate Sofia Paraskeva along with LESPA Artistic Director Elodie Lauten (http://www.elodielauten.net), directly relates to the community of juniors and seniors who represent the majority of library users by showing collaborative work between two generations of women artists and composers: senior, established artists and young emerging artists who bring their knowledge of leading edge interactive technology.

American composer Michael Colina’s Los Caprichos for orchestra will be performed by the Orchestra of the National Theater of Brazil and conductor Ira Levin on Tuesday, October 13 at the Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro, Setor Cultural Norte, Via N2 in Brasilia, Brazil.

Los Caprichos, commissioned by the Orchestra, is based on Francisco Goya’s famous prints of social repression at the end of the Spanish Inquisition in 1799.

Ira Levin, a native of Chicago, is the chief conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestra of the National Theater of Brazil, in the capital city of Brasilia. More about him at http://www.iralevin.net/.

Michael Colina’s music has been performed throughout the Americas, Europe & Japan. Recent premieres include Baion de Bayo by the Quintet of the Americas in New York City, Guitar Concerto in Three Movements, by soloist Robert Phillips and Florida’s Imperial Symphony Orchestra, Tango De Auvergne, Canteloube folk songs rearranged for tango quintet, performed by bandoneonist Daniel Binelli, pianist Polly Ferman, and ensemble, Shadow of Urbano by the Quartet San Francisco and pianist Bob James and Notturno by violinist Anastasia Khitruk with pianist Elizaveta Kopelman, which is available for viewing on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-65RX5X2Og. Read his SoundRoom Newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/aug09/MC_nws_083109.pdf. Visit Michael Colina online at http://www.michaelcolina.com/.

Sunday, October 11 at 10:30 AM
The Gershwins Dream of American Opera
West End Synagogue
190 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street
in Manhattan

Composer Joelle Wallach will be giving a lecture titled Porgy & Bess: The Gershwins’ Dream of American Opera on Sunday, October 11 at 10:30 AM at West End Synagogue, located at 190 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street in Manhattan.

Ms. Wallach will speak about how the Gershwin brothers, Ira and George, saw DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy as an ideal vehicle for an opera using jazz rhythms and blues idioms, creating a work that revolutionized the Black Theater movement and created controversy in the performing arts community for decades to come.

Admission to the lecture is $10, and walk-ins are welcome. Information and tickets for the October 11 lecture are available from the Synagogue at 212-579-0777 or at http://www.westendsynagogue.org/

“Settings of Six Poems of Emily Dickinson” by Valerie Saalbach,
composer/soprano
Saturday, October 10 8PM
Baruch College
55 Lexington Ave
Sponsored by The New York Piano Society
http://www.newyorkpianosociety.com/events.html