Tuesday, January 14th~
Downtown Music Gallery (DMG)
13 Monroe St, New York, NY 10002
Lineup:
6:30: patrick brennan – alto sax / ON KA’A DAVIS – Guitar / JASON KAO HWANG – Violin / COOPER-MOORE – Diddleybow
7:30: STEPHAN CRUMP – Solo Contrabass
8:30: KEN KOBAYASHI – Drums / JEFF MILES – Guitar / MICHAEL GILBERT – Bass / ERIN ROGERS – Sax
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Bowerbird presents New Thread Quartet’s album release show featuring “A Little Night Music,” and Tori Cheah’s Walk for a Shell from their new album, Saxifraga.
About the program:
While Irish composer Emma O’Halloran was living in Miami, she listened to the ocean waves at night for comfort and reflection. Her Night Music ripples and whirls like the sea with a nod to Latin music and Miami Sound Machine, the mixtape that kept O’Halloran company during that year abroad. LA-based Kay Rhie composed Night Blooms for mixed trio following her father’s death in 2019. Adapted for saxophone quartet, the piece tells the story of his final days in the hospital. As she watched his breathing machine expand and contract, Rhie was reminded of flowers that bloom at night and how “many first-generation immigrants probably dreamed of beautiful ‘blooms’ during the quiet hours when not too many people took notice.” Helena Tulve’s Öö, which is “night” in Estonian, sets an unsettled atmosphere of impending doom. The concert concludes with Walk for a shell, which Tori Cheah describes as a reference to a pilgrimage wherein one applies time and effort across a distance in an offering of respect for forces greater than oneself.
More info & tickets: HERE
Sunday Brunch!
Scholes Street Studio presents New Thread Quartet’s NYC album release show featuring selections from “A Little Night Music,” including Wong Foo Jeng’s light/erasure, Emma O’Halloran’s Night Music and Tori Cheah’s Walk for a Shell from their new album, Saxifraga.
Saxifraga – a new album from New Thread Quartet
New Focus Recordings, digital release January 24, 2025
Pre Order Today!
New Thread Quartet Album Release
Saxifraga – digital release January 24 on New Focus Recordings
Saxifraga invites listeners to imagine scenes of natural wonderment, to embrace the fragile, and to restore our human connections. Recorded over a 7-year period between 2016 and 2023, this album tells another story: that of an evolving musical family amidst a changing landscape. Championed by past and present members of the quartet, these three works, each singular and expressive, were refined through years of rehearsal, deep discussions, and dozens of performances. Together, these works chronicle New Thread’s resilience and point to a future of vital, tender and reciprocal music making.
Saxifraga – New Thread Quartet
New Focus Recordings, digital release January 24, 2025 – Pre Order Today!
1. Without World (2016) by Scott Wollschleger
2-4. avalanche lily (2019) by Amy Beth Kirsten
5. Walk for a shell (2023) by Victoria Cheah
Featuring commissioned works performed by NTQ ensemble members past and present: Geoffrey Landman, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Kristen McKeon, Noa Even, Erin Rogers, and Zach Herchen.
Artwork by Oscar H. Gresh / Graphic design by Jason Warriner. Recorded at Dreamflower with Jeremy Tressler.
Ensemble Decipher will perform two shows in Illinois in March 2024 including Telegraph by Erin Rogers, alongside works by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Taylor Long and premieres by Eric Lemmon and Rob Cosgrove. The ensemble will be in residence at Knox College in Galesburg March 6–7, 2025, followed by a performance at Constellation’s Frequency Series in Chicago on Sunday, March 9, 2025.
Friday, March 7, 2025 // 7pm
Kresge Recital Hall
Knox College
2 East South Street
Galesburg, Illinois
Ensemble Decipher will perform two shows in Illinois in March 2024 including Telegraph by Erin Rogers, alongside works by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Taylor Long and premieres by Eric Lemmon and Rob Cosgrove.
The ensemble will be in residence at Knox College in Galesburg March 6–7, 2025, followed by a performance at Constellation’s Frequency Series:
Sunday, March 9, 2025 // 8:30pm
Constellation
3111 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60618