NYC Calendar: February 2013

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2

8 PM Laura Andel – New Music Explorations

VENUE:  Roulette

DETAILS:

Laura Andel New Music Works in collaboration with Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), Elliott Sharp (guitars), Carl Maguire (Fender Rhodes), Andrew Drury (percussion)

http://roulette.org/events/laura-andel-jerome-residency/

ADMISSION: $10/15

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

6 PM Making Music: Osvaldo Golijov

VENUE: Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

K’vakarat

Qohelet (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts)

Ayre

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/2/4/0600/PM/Making-Music-Osvaldo-Golijov/

ADMISSION: $30

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

8:00 pm Holodomor – Virko Baley’s Opera

VENUE: The Gerald W. Lynch Theater- John Jay College

DETAILS:

Holodomor
Red Earth. Hunger

Opera

Tod Fitzpatrick, baritone
Eric Brenner, counter-tenor
Melissa Weaver, stage director
Virko Baley, conductor, composer

http://www.facebook.com/events/366204713476093/

ADMISSION: $15/25

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7

9:00 pm SWANS, Devendra Banhart

VENUE: Music Hall of Williamsburg

DETAILS: http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/192589-swans-brooklyn

ADMISSION: Sold Out

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9

8 PM Corigliano conducted by Marin Alsop, the Juilliard Orchestra

VENUE:  Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

John Corigliano: Symphony No. 2

John Corigliano: Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus

All-Corigliano program celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday.  Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus is scored for antiphonally-placed wind ensembles, and will transform Carnegie Hall into the ancient Roman arena of the same name, through which Juilliard faculty member Corigliano strives “both to embody and to comment on this massive and glamorous barbarity”

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/205408?show_date=2013-02-09%2020:00:00

ADMISSION:  $15-$30

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9

8PM Composer Portraits: Sofia Gubaidulina

VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University

DETAILS:

Performed by  International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Rebekah Heller, solo bassoon , Christian Knapp, conductor

Meditation on the Bach Chorale “Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit” (1993)

Trio (1989)

Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)

Concordanza (1971)

http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1538

ADMISSION: $25-$30

MONDAYS, FEBRUARY 11, 18, 25

8 PM Frank London’s Shekhina Big Band

VENUE: The Stone

DETAILS: Greg Wall, Marty Ehrlich, Matt Darriau, Zach Mayer, Paul Shapiro, Doug Wieselman, Jessica Lurie (saxophones) Justin Mullens, Steven Gluzband, Ronald Horton, Pam

Fleming, Rob Henke (trumpets) Curtis Hasselbring, Jacob Garchik, Matt Haviland, Brian Drye (trombones) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Anthony Coleman (piano) Uri Sharlin

(accordion) Brian Glassman (bass) Roberto Rodriguez (drums) Renato Thoms (percussion)

ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14

7:00 pm Anthony Coleman Quartet

VENUE: Spectrum

ADMISSION: $10

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

10 PM Alash

VENUE: Carnegie Hall

DETAILS:

Alash, from the Siberian Republic of Tuva, is known for its remarkable throat-singing technique, holding true to the tradition of its ancestors and inspired by master musicians of Central Asia.

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/2/16/1000/PM/Alash/

ADMISSION: $42 – $49

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

4 PM John Cage’s Apartment House 1776

VENUE: Wild House

DETAILS:

John Cage’s Apartment House 1776

In celebration of Avant Media’s 10th year, this afternoon performance of Cage’s wonderful musicircus, Apartment House 1776, features singers Imani Uzuri, Mary MacKenzie and others, with an instrumental ensemble of Avant Media alumni and friends, including: Matt Beckemeyer, Gelsey Bell, Eve Beglarian, Drew Blumberg, Nicole Camacho, Randy Gibson, MIVOS, William Lang, Eleonor Sandresky, Jessica Schmitz, Cleek Schrey, Jude Traxler, and more.

http://avantmedia.org/art/productions/avantmusicfestival2013.html

ADMISSION: $15/$8

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21

7:30 pm Polesye Project and Shofar

DETAILS:

Singer, accordionist, musicologist and Warsaw-native Olga Mieleszczuk’s (Polesye Project) special focus is music of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition of Eastern Europe, especially the border areas of Poland (Galitzia, Polesye). A classically-trained musician, who divides her time between Warsaw and Tel Aviv, she has studied and performed wide-ranging genres from Hassidic music, to Yiddish songs, to folk music from the Jewish, Slavic and Balkan traditions.

Shofar Trio—guitarist Raphael Roginski, saxophonist and bass clarinet player Mikolaj Trzaska and drummer Macio Moretti  formed in 2006, joins traditional Jewish music with contemporary avant-jazz and rock. The Poland-based band released its debut album in 2007—works based on the first compendium of Hassidic melodies from the Ukraine, Poland and Moldova compiled by early 20th-century Soviet musicologist Moshe Beregovsky.

http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/206950?show_date=2013-02-21%2019:30:00

VENUE: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

ADMISSION: FREE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

8 PM  Composer Portraits:  Enno Poppe

VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University

DETAILS:

Performed by JACK Quartet, onstage discussion with the composer

Schweiss (2010), Tonband (2008/2009), Rad (2003), Tier (2002)

http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1540

ADMISSION: $25-$30

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

8:00/9:30 PM Ches Smith and These Arches CD release show with Tim Berne, Tony Malaby, Mary Halvorson, Andrea Parkins

VENUE: Shapeshifter Labs

DETAILS:

http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/portfolio/feb-26-ches-smith-and-these-arches/

ADMISSION: $10

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

8:00 pm The End of Exoticism, Lecture

VENUE: Italian Academy

DETAILS:

Gianmario Borio (University of Pavia)
Compagnia di San Paolo Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music
The End of Exoticism
or Debussy, Boulez and the Penetration of “the Other” into Western Art Music

http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/events_calendar.html

ADMISSION: Free, RSVP

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