Highlight of the month: The Village Trip festival (September 8-24)
TUESDAY, September 5
5pm Shahzad Ismaily and Michał Dymny Duo
VENUE: Thomas Erben Gallery
ADMISSION: Free
TUESDAY, September 5
6:30pm In Dedication to Milford Graves
Shahzad Ismaily and Zeerak Ahmed
VENUE: Fridman Gallery
ADMISSION: starting at $10
WEDNESDAY, September 6
7pm Bassticcio
Anna Koch, clarinet
VENUE: Austrian Cultural Forum
ADMISSION: Free
WEDNESDAY, September 6
8pm Bar Laika presents Satellite 26: Amir ElSaffar
VENUE: Bar Laika by e-flux
ADMISSION: $10
WEDNESDAY, September 6
8:30 pm TRIO
Wendy Eisenberg (guitar) Ryan Sawyer (voice, percussion) Lester St. Louis (cello)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20
FRIDAY, September 8
6 am – 9 pm Satie’s Vexations, 60 years after John Cage
Performers include: Adam Tendler, Marc Peloquin, Marilyn Nonken, Chester Biscardi, Joan Forsyth
VENUE: NYU Paulson Center (181 Mercer Street, New York)
ADMISSION: FREE
FRIDAY, September 8
8pm Eivind Opsvik – Overseas (20th anniversary show)
Tony Malaby – saxophone
Jacob Sacks – piano
Brandon Seabrook – guitar
Kenny Wollesen – drums
Eivind Opsvik – bass and compositions
VENUE: Barbes
ADMISSION: $20
SATURDAY, September 9
3 pm Diana Wege: Earth Requiem and Rebirth
An interdisciplinary performance and installation conceived by artist Diana Wege.
Composers: Errollyn Wallen and Jeff Beal
Conductor: Mark Shapiro
The Village Trip Singers
VENUE: St Mark’s in the Bowery (131 East 10th Street)
ADMISSION: $20 recommended
SATURDAY, September 9
8pm Roscoe Mitchell & John McCowen / Beam Splitter
VENUE: First Unitarian Congregational Society
ADMISSION: $25
SATURDAY, September 9
8pm Turnpike Allstars (Tony Malaby, Christopher Hoffman, Sean Ali, Flin van Hemmen), Kaelen Ghandi
VENUE: Record Shop
ADMISSION: $10
SUNDAY, September 10
InGardens Fall 2023: Art as Hope
3pm St. Louis / kwon
Lester St. Louis – cello
eddy kwon – violin
4pm Miriam Parker Trio
Miriam Parker – movement
No Land – poet
Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez – voice
VENUE: Children’s Magical Garden(129 Stanton St near Essex Street)
ADMISSION: Free
SUNDAY, September 10
4 pm David Froom, composer: Echoes, Resonance and Remembrance
Performers:
Curtis Macomber, violin
Jessica Shand, flute
Scott Wheeler, piano
Eliza Garth, piano
Miles Walter, piano
James Baker, conductor
Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
Wendy Stern, flute
Timothy Ruedeman, saxophone
William Anderson, guitar
Lois Martin, viola
Chris Finckel, cello
Oliver Xu, percussion
Program:
David Froom – Sonata for Solo Violin
David Froom – Lightscapes
Robert Gibson – Prayer (NY Premiere)
Jeffrey Mumford – resonating echoes (NY Premiere)
David Froom – Lament for the City (NY Premiere)
David Froom – Turn of Events
David Froom – Ribbons
VENUE: Kaufman Music Center
ADMISSION: Free
SUNDAY, September 10
9pm/10.15pm Malaby/Sanchez/Rainey
Tony Malaby, saxophones
Angelica Sanchez, piano
Tom Rainey, drums
VENUE: Bar Lunatico
ADMISSION: $10
MONDAY, September 11
8pm Taka Kigawa
György Ligeti – Complete Piano Études
Taka Kigawa, piano
VENUE: LPR
ADMISSION: $20-$30
MONDAY, September 11
8pm Cecilia Lopez & Ingrid Laubrock: Works for saxophone and electronics
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $20-$35
MONDAY, September 11 and WEDNESDAY, September 13
7:30pm Julia Bullock & John Arida
Julia Bullock , soprano
John Arida, piano
works by Schubert, Wolf, Weill, Rossini, Cage, and Berio as well as Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Pat Castleton, Cora “Lovie” Austin, and Billy Taylor
VENUE: Park Avenue Armory
ADMISSION: $75 (plus fees)
TUESDAY, September 12
7:30 pm Piano & Dance: Kees & Winter Wieringa
Program:
Simeon ten Holt – Natalon in E
Jakob ter Veldhuis – Postnuclearwinterscenario
Philip Glass – The Poet Acts
Alvin Curran – For Cornelius
John Cage – In a Landscape (with dance of Maddy Elliot and Winter Wieringa)
Simeon ten Holt – Solo Devil Dance 4 (with dance of Winter Wieringa)
Performers:
Kees Wieringa – piano
Winter Wieringa – dance
Maddy Elliott – dance
VENUE: St John’s in the Village (218 W 11th St, NY)
ADMISSION: $25 – $30
TUESDAY, September 12
6pm Longleash
Pala Garcia, violin
John Popham, cello
Julia Den Boer, piano and harmonium
Program:
Katherine Balch, Different Gravities (2023)
Adrian Knight, Cherubics Iv And V (2022-23)
Anthony Vine, Devotions for violin, cello, and harmonium (2022)
Igor Santos, sounding petals (2019)
VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University
ADMISSION: Free
TUESDAY, September 12
7:30pm Fay Victor
Fay Victor solo
Voice, Compositions, Nord 4 Keyboard + Processing
VENUE: Zürcher Gallery
ADMISSION: $20
WEDNESDAY, September 13
7:30pm ASM Presents The Why
Anders Nilsson (electric guitar), Jeremy Carlstedt (drums), and special guest On Ka’a Davis (electric guitar)
VENUE: Mama tried (787 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn)
ADMISSION: suggested
WEDNESDAY, September 13
8pm Shelley Hirsch’s New Work Listening Party
VENUE: Shift
ADMISSION: free, RSVP
THURSDAY, September 14
7:30PM Sandbox Percussion Performs Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars
Sandbox Percussion
Andy Akiho, Seven Pillars
VENUE: New School Tishman Auditorium
ADMISSION: FREE
THURSDAY, September 14
8pm Zorn@70 At Roulette Part Four: Four World Premieres Featuring The Junction Trio, Jennifer Choi, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith, Peter Evans and Sam Jones
Circe:
Peter Evans trumpet
Sam Jones trumpet
Philosophical Investigations:
Stefan Jackiw violin
Jay Campbell cello
Conrad Tao piano
Partita For The Firebird:
I Prelude—Allemande
II Pavane
III Courante
IV Air
Jennifer Choi violin
I Am Your Labyrinth…
Stefan Jackiw violin
Jay Campbell cello
Conrad Tao piano
Jorge Roeder bass
Ches Smith drums
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $30-$40
FRIDAY, September 15
5pm NYC Anarchist Book Fair Music Festival: CA/DE/NA, Eugene Chadbourne & Jim McHugh, Daniel Carter/Andrew Barker/Kyle Motl Trio, Ras Moshe, Samara Lubelski
VENUE: P.I.T.
ADMISSION: TBD
FRIDAY, September 15
8pm fLuXkit Premiere: A Night with Darius Jones
Darius Jones alto saxophone, Gerald Cleaver drums, Jesse Zubot and Josh Zubot violins, Peggy Lee cello and James Meger bass
VENUE: Shift
ADMISSION: free, RSVP
SATURDAY, September 16
8:30 pm Quartet
Matana Roberts (composer, horns, harmonicas, aux percussion, vocal, wordspeak) Mike Pride (drums, aux percussion, vocal) Darius Jones (alto sax, tin whistle, vocal) Kyp Malone (synths)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20
SUNDAY, September 17
9pm/10.15pm Malaby/Sanchez/Rainey
Tony Malaby, saxophones
Angelica Sanchez, piano
Tom Rainey, drums
VENUE: Bar Lunatico
ADMISSION: $10
MONDAY, September 18
7:30 pm So Surreal – Anarchy Under the Arch! Innovators, Radicals, Mavericks and Game-changers
Music by Charles Ives,Yoko Ono, Eric Satie, John Cage and Morton Feldman.
Performers:
Catherine Kautsky, pianist
Marilyn Nonken, pianist
Adam Tendler, pianist
Joan Forsyth, pianist
William Anderson, guitar
Sharon Harms, soprano
VENUE: Salmagundi Club (47 Fifth Avenue, New York)
ADMISSION: $30
TUESDAY, September 19
7 pm Simic Colors at Salmagundi
Charles Simic, poetry
Aleksandra Vrebalov, “Simic Settings”
Joseph Keckler, baritone
Sharon Harms, soprano
VENUE: Salmagundi Club (47 Fifth Avenue, New York)
ADMISSION: $30
WEDNESDAY, September 20
7:30 pm Uncommon Women: Celebrating Joan Tower
Works by Meredith Monk, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Kitty Brazelton, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Soonim Kim, Jessie Montgomery and Joan Tower
Performers
Duo Mundi – George Lopez and Gulimina Mahamuti
Lisa Moore
Vicki Chow
Joan Forsyth
Emily Tong
Kenneithia Mitchell
Kathleen Supové
VENUE: Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow Street, New York)
ADMISSION: $25 – $30
WEDNESDAY, September 20
8:30 pm Septet: Clockwise
Anna Webber (tenor sax, flute, bass flute) Jeremy Viner (tenor sax, clarinet) Jacob Garchik (trombone) Christopher Hoffman (cello) Matt Mitchell (piano) Chris Tordini (bass) Ches Smith (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20
THURSDAY, September 21
7:30pm The Dream Past: A Sonic Conjuring
The Sway Machinery
Jeremiah Lockwood, guitar
Yuli Ya’el Be’eri, vocals
John Bollinger, drums
Stuart Bogie, Jordan McLean, trumpets
VENUE: Union Temple House of CBE (17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn)
ADMISSION: $18-54
THURSDAY, September 21
8pm John Zorn At 70: Music For Strings
Repertoire:
John Zorn, Sigil Magick: A Curious and Detailed Exposition of Sigils, Signs, and Hieroglyphs Peculiar to the Occult Orders, Hermetic Brotherhoods, and Dark Mystery Schools of the Late Middle Ages for string quintet (2020)
John Zorn, The Gas Heart a mini opera for 2 celli and 2 percussionists (2020)
John Zorn, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science for string sextet (2020)
Performers:
Jack Quartet
Yura lee, viola
Michael Nicolas, cello and voice
Sae Hashimoto, percussion and voice
Ches Smith, percussion and voice
VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University
ADMISSION: $10-30
SUNDAY, September 24
InGardens Fall 2023: Art as Hope
2pm Juan Pablo Carletti Percussion Trio
Juan Pablo Carletti – percussion
Michael Wimberly – drums
William Parker – strings, percussion
4pm DoYeon Kim / Jeong Lim Yang
DeYeon Kim – gayageum
Jeong Lim Yang – bass
VENUE: Children’s Magical Garden (129 Stanton St near Essex Street)
ADMISSION: free
SUNDAY, September 24
4PM Teodora Stepančić re-launches Spectrum’s hosting of the Piano+ Series
VENUE: Spectrum
ADMISSION: TBD
SUNDAY, September 24
4pm Bang on a Can Music Series: For Living Lovers
VENUE: Noguchi Museum
ADMISSION: free – $12
TUESDAY, September 26
Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music
Nate Wooley trumpet
Russell Greenberg percussion
Matt Moran vibraphone
Madison Greenstone clarinets
gabby fluke-mogul violin
Joshua Modney violin
Mariel Roberts cello
Luke Stewart bass
https://natewooley.bandcamp.com/track/experiment-two-fluke-mogul-greenberg-smythe-st-louis-stewart
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $20-$30
TUESDAY, September 26 and SATURDAY, September 30
6.30pm and 1pm Dead Man Walking
Music by Jake Heggie, libretto by Terrence McNally
Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean
VENUE: The Metropolitan Opera
ADMISSION: $57-710
TUESDAY, September 26- September 30
8pm and 10pm John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet
John Zorn – Saxophone
Julian Lage – Guitar
Jorge Roeder – Bass
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
VENUE: Village Vanguard
ADMISSION: $40
WEDNESDAY, September 27
Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music
Nate Wooley trumpet
Russell Greenberg percussion
Matt Moran vibraphone
Madison Greenstone clarinets
gabby fluke-mogul violin
Joshua Modney violin
Mariel Roberts cello
Luke Stewart bass
VENUE: Sisters
ADMISSION: $20
WEDNESDAY, September 27
8:30 pm Quintet
Anna Webber (reeds) Darius Jones (reeds) Craig Taborn (piano) Chris Tordini (bass) Dan Weiss (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20
THURSDAY, September 28
8:30 pm Quartet
Peter Evans (trumpet) Patricia Brennan (vibes) Miles Okazaki (guitar) Dan Weiss (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20
THURSDAY, September 28 and FRIDAY, September 29
7:30 pm Cage Shuffle (John Cage’s Japan Series)
Paul Lazar brings Cage’s personal stories to life by following the composer’s notated instructions to speak each one aloud in just one minute.
VENUE: Japan Society (333 East 47th St., New York)
ADMISSION: $28-35
FRIDAY, September 29
7PM Amplified Ambitions
A Parallax View
Gordon Beeferman Trio
VENUE: Spectrum
ADMISSION: TBD
FRIDAY, September 29 – SATURDAY, September 30
7.30pm & 9.30pm TJG Fellowship Commission 2023 presents Angelica Sanchez
Angelica Sanchez -piano
Adam O’Farrill -trumpet & effects
John Hebert -bass
Reggie Nicholson -drums
VENUE: The Jazz Gallery
ADMISSION: $25 – $40
FRIDAY, September 29 – SATURDAY, September 30
8pm Joshua Bell, Copland, and The Elements
The Elements (US Premiere–Commissioned by Joshua Bell)
Kevin Puts, Earth
Edgar Meyer, Water
Jake Heggie, Fire
Jennifer Higdon, Air
Jessie Montgomery, Space
Kevin Puts, Earth (reprise and finale)
Copland, Symphony No. 3
VENUE: Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall
ADMISSION: $100-207
FRIDAY, September 29 –SATURDAY, September 30
9pm Swans
with Norman Westberg
VENUE: Music Hall of Williamsburg
ADMISSION: sold out
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