ARS NOSTRA Performs the music of Max Lifchitz

Merkin Concert Hall – Tuesday, May 15 at 8 PM.

Ars Nostra Ensemble

Ars Nostra, the new music ensemble in residence at the University of South Florida’s College of The Arts, will fete composer Max Lifchitz with a concert featuring his vocal and instrumental works. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 15 at 8 PM and will be held at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center (129 West 67th St). For ticket purchases and availability please contact the box office at (212) 501-3330.

Ars Nostra is devoted to promoting “our arts” by performing music by living composers whose works draw upon diverse and rich resources including ancient anthropological sources, multiple ethnicities, and well-established Western arts traditions.

Active as composer and performer, Max Lifchitz began his musical education was in his native México City before relocating to New York in 1966. Trained at The Juilliard School and Harvard University, Lifchitz has earned grants and fellowships from the ASCAP, Ford and Guggenheim Foundations, the NYS Council on the Art; and the NEA. He received the first prize in the 1976 Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Contemporary Music held in Holland. Many of his compositions – including his Canto de Paz and the forty-plus series of works titled Yellow Ribbons – reveal his reactions to the turbulence of recent times as well as a deep-rooted yearning for a peaceful world. His Piano Silhouettes was written especially for the occasion in collaboration with visual artist Elisabeth Condon of University of South Florida, manifesting a direct reflection to the ensemble’s theme “Ars Nostra.”

The members of the ensemble are all on the faculty at the University of South Florida’s College of The Arts. They are:

Soprano Kyoung Cho; trumpeter Jay Coble; clarinetist Calvin T. Falwell; Pianist Sang-Hie Lee; flutist Kim S. McCormick; and percussionist Robert M. McCormick.

The event is possible with the assistance of a Creative Scholarship grant from the University of South Florida.

For further information please contact

Ashleigh Gallant — agallant(at)usf.edu or 813-974-1756
http://www.kaufman-center.org/mch/event/ars-nostra-performs-the-music-of-max-lifchitz

JUNE 6th @ 8:00 PM
ROULETTE
509 Atlantic Ave – Brooklyn
http://roulette.org/events/margaret-leng-tan-6/

Margaret Leng Tan, piano
Roberto Rossi, narrator
Ranjit Bhatnagar, sound artist

Satie and Satie-inspired music from John Cage, Toby Twining, Federico Mompou and Milos Raickovich, performed on piano and toy piano by Margaret Leng Tan.

Cage considered Erik Satie “indispensable”. Texts by Cage and Satie will punctuate the evening, read by Roberto Rossi.

A program highlight will be the first live US performance of one of Cage’s last works, his Extended Lullaby. A re-working of Satie’s Vexations, Extended Lullaby was originally created for 12 music boxes. Ms. Tan will present Extended Lullaby in a multiple-toy piano arrangement.

Other works include Satie’s Pieces Froides and his Sports et Divertissements performed with Satie’s poems and projections of the original Charles Martin accompanying illustrations; Cage’s Dream, In a Landscape together with a film by Meredith Holch; Satie Blues by Twining, Mompou’s Canco i Dansa and the US premiere of Waiting for C-A-G-E by Raickovich.

In the lobby Ranjit Bhatnagar’s robot toy piano version of Satie’s Vexations will run for the duration of the show.

The May 20 Le Salon de Musiques’ program, in the Fifth Floor Banquet room at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, will feature J.Brahms Cello Sonata In E Minor Opus 38 and Myaskovsky Cello Sonata N.2 In A Major Opus 81 with John Walz on Cello and Steven Vanhauwaert on Piano. The performance is accompanied by Champagne, food by Patina and informal conversation introduced by musicologist Julius Reder Carlson. Tickets are $65 and $45 for students (including concert and refreshments) and are available on line at www.LeSalondeMusiques.com or by calling (310) 498-0257.

By removing the stage, Le Salon de Musiques offers a more personal touch to listeners eager to familiarize themselves with Chamber Music. The goal is to bring together an audience of disparate backgrounds…music lovers who believe that this form of melodic artistry brings out the best in humanity.

“Notable for its polish and tonal beauty” (New York Times), the Escher Quartet has been appointed one of the BBC’s 2011 ‘New Generation Artists.’ In addition to their studio recordings for the BBC, the quartet consistently entrances audiences throughout U. S., Europe and Asia: “Finely honed technique and a focused ensemble blend are this group’s strong suits…a dark ambrosial brew all its own” (Boston Globe).
Program:
Brett Dean: “Eclipse”
Alexander Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
This free concert will take place on Monday, May 28, at 7:30 PM at Advent/ Broadway Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd St. in Manhattan.
www.musicmondays.org

Beth Anderson

Choral music by Beth Anderson’s will be featured in a special Women’s Mass on Sunday, May 13 – 11:00 AM, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Performers will be the St. John’s Choir with Cryder Bankes, organist. The service is in honor of Mother’s Day.

Ms. Anderson’s We Thank Thee (written in 2003 for SATB with piano or organ, with words by R. W. Emerson) will be the Processional Hymn and her In the Company of Women (1999 for SATB or SA with piano or organ, words by Jo-Ann Krestan) and May We Ever Mindful Be (2000, for SSATTB with piano or organ, again with words by Jo-Ann Krestan) will also be part of the service. She will also perform Preludes by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Gail Smith.

Other composers to be presented will be Elizabeth R. Austin, Heather Seaton, Anne Phillips, Mary Anne Joyce-Walter and Emily Divine Wilson.

For directions to St. John’s Church and more information about the service, call 718-783-3928 or visit http://www.saintjohnsbrooklyn.com/.

For more information about Ms. Anderson, including a bio, videos, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.beand.com.

‘Fanfarinette’ arrangement of Rameau’s piece for Clavecin for nine piece ensemble

‘Totes Meer: Dialogue with Paul Nash’: Concert work for solo violin, string quartet, wind quartet and piano

‘Cinderella’: Premier of score to the 1922 German Expressionist Silent film.

All works composed by Nicole Brady

May 14 @ 3pm Provincetown Theatre 133 Macdougal St

Cost: Free

Performers:

Joyce Hammann, Solo Violin

Sarah Latanyshyn, Flute/Piccolo

Anna Morris, Bassoon/Contrabassoon

Alex Love, French Horn

Andy Kozar, Trumpet

Nicole Brady, Piano

Jessie Montgomery,Violin

Jannina Norpoth, Violin

Nora Krohn, Viola

Katherine Cherbas, Cello

Miriam Gideon

George Edwards

Elliott Schwartz

Dorothy Rudd Moore

Ben Weber

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the American Composers Alliance will present a retrospective concert of significant works by American composers that represent milestones in the history of the organization. The Orchestra of the League of Composers, with special guest conductor, Oliver Hagen, will be joined by world-renowned solo artists in this once-in-a lifetime ACA event on Saturday, June 23rd at Symphony Space.

Program:

George Edwards, Parallel Convergences (1988)
Miriam Gideon, Bömischer Krystall (1990)
Dorothy Rudd Moore, Transcension (1986)
Elliott Schwartz, Chamber Concerto VI: Mr. Jefferson (2007) New York Premiere
Ben Weber, Concerto, Op. 32 (1950)

Soloists including pianist Orion Weiss and cellist Fred Sherry, as well as soprano Jo Ellen Miller and violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved will join the League Orchestra players.

Orion Weiss

Fred Sherry

Jo Ellen Miller

Peter Sheppard Skaerved

ACA will also present the Laurel Leaf Certificate of Appreciation to INNOVA RECORDINGS, in recognition of its excellent and steady support of the full range of contemporary American music.

Brief video segments throughout the evening will highlight some of the ACA’s history, composers, and their works to illustrate highlights from more than seven decades and the people who have shaped and given purpose to this unique organization.

Join us for a celebration of American concert music, to honor the composers who established and created one of the most important collections of American music in the world. This is an evening not to be missed!

American Composer’s Alliance
75^th Anniversary Concert
Sat, Jun 23 at 8 pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95^th St, New York NY
Subway directions: 1, 2 or 3 to 96^th St.
$25 Advance-General Admission; $20 Symphony Space and ACA Members, Seniors;  $15 Students, and those 18 and under; ACA and BMI members, as well as Society for American Music members – contact ACA for discount ticket code: concerts@composers.com before June 15.
Tickets available at www.symphonyspace.org or call 212.864.5400

This concert supported and funded in part through New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections program, the Cary New Music Performance Fund, BMI, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.  ACA is a BMI-affiliated music publisher.

Dallas Magazine calls Orion Weiss, “a pianist with remarkable sensitivity and a beautiful, appropriately controlled tone” in a recent performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. Weiss is an exciting young artist making an impact on the national concert circuit.

Cellist Fred Sherry is one of the leading cellists in the world today. Of his recent premiere of John Zorn’s A Rebours, composed for Sherry, Musical America said “Sherry was particularly impressive, riding a rollercoaster of shifting perspectives and muscular arpeggios with élan.”

Soprano Jo Ellen Miller was called “an American artist at home in many vocabularies” by the Chicago Sun-Times for her thrilling performances, and Gramophone Magazine said violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved’s playing is “so compelling that interest never wavers.”

For more details about this concert and press release, click here.

New works by rising composers, including new Playground commissions and Conrad Kehn’s “Young Person’s Guide to Modern Music.”
Featuring: New Playground commissions by Jeff Ashear and Nicholas Ehlers, Conrad Kehn’s Young Person’s Guide to Modern Music, Greg Simon’s Piano Quintet No. 1 and Christopher Auerbach-Brown’s Pillars of Air.
Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts,
2344 E. Iliff ave.,
Denver CO, 80208
Tickets $18 adult, $16 seniors, free with Pioneer card or ANY student ID. Ticket prices include free parking at the Newman Center parking garage and a reception after the concert to greet the artists.
Lamont Concert Line (303) 871-6412

Parthenia, New York’s premiere viol consort, will present Night Visions – a program of new music on Sunday, May 13 – 5:30 PM at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd Street in Long Island City. This performance will be part of the Queens New Music Festival.

Parthenia’s program will include Richard Einhorn’s Variations on La Follia for treble, tenor and 2 bass violas da gamba, composed for them in 2011. The ground bass theme known as “La Follia” has captured the imagination of composers since Renaissance times. It is a seductive tune that invites improvised variations ranging in emotion from tender nostalgia to bold confrontation. Vivaldi, Corelli and the viol virtuoso Marin Marais, all wrote extended sets of variations on the “Follia” for one or two players; Einhorn’s set is the first-ever for a quartet of viols. The traditional key of d minor is retained for starters, but Einhorn quickly explores other keys, and even gets away from the strict 3/4 meter. Dramatic solos for each member of Parthenia add interest and excitement. Visit the composer at http://www.richardeinhorn.com/.

See a video of the piece at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HZHvhoQ08.

Other works on the program are Max Lifchitz’ Night Voices 15, composed for Parthenia and premiered by the group in 2008, Eleonor Sandresky’s Cry Out – from Suite for String Quartet written 2003/2006, premiered in 2007 by Ethel, Nicholas Patterson’s Old Roads for viol ensemble, composed for Parthenia in 2008, and Frances White’s A flower on the farther side (2010) – supported by a Fromm Foundation grant for Parthenia.

Tickets for the May 13 concert are $14 online, $20 at the door. For more information about the concert and the Festival, call 718-433-2733, or visit http://queensnewmusicfestival.org/. For MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/_start.aspx.

Parthenia was the subject of a Fanfare Magazine online article – http://www.fanfaremag.com/content/view/44677/10245/. Visit them at http://www.parthenia.org.

ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) gives the world premiere of new music by guitarist Mick Barr, well known for his avant-rock bands Orthrelm and Crom Tech, plus celebrates a new album called Loving the Chambered Nautilus with pop-influenced electro-acoustic composer William Brittelle on New Amsterdam Records. Mick joins ACME in Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union and performs a solo set. Loving the Chambered Nautilus is out in June, but you can get your copy at these shows.

See a preview of Loving the Chambered Nautilus here.

Friday, May 11 at 8pm & Saturday, May 12 at 8pm

212.255.5793 x11
www.thekitchen.org