Sunday, November 6, 2011
11:00am — 11:30pm
Throughout Lower Manhattan at various locations: MAP coming soon.
FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY
Members of thingNY and the groups Why Lie? and the Panoply Performance Laboratory have collaborated as a newly formed collective called VARISPEED to remake Robert Ashley’s seminal television opera, Perfect Lives. Presented by PERFORMA ’11, each episode has been newly arranged by a member of the group. These arrangements feature fresh takes on instrumentation, amplification, and melodic content, while still maintaining the formal, metric, and chordal frameworks of the originals. Perfect Lives Manhattan is not a imitative interpretation of Ashley’s Perfect Lives, but instead seeks to reanimate Ashley’s material in new ways, stemming from the Varispeed members’ own individual relationships with the piece.
Arranged and performed by Gelsey Bell, Paul Pinto, Brian McCorkle, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons.
HELP US VIDEOTAPE IT:
This is a free performance but we would really love to document it properly with HD video and a quality sound recording. Please consider giving a small donation via our IndieGoGo page to help us do this.
Pleased to join the lovely Sweet Soubrette! http://www.sweetsoubrette.com
Saturday, September 10, 2011
12:30pm-1:30pm
Knitting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Get tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/53355?utm_medium=api
Tinderbox Music Festival is an annual event showcasing a powerful and diverse lineup of established and emerging female artists producing innovative original music. Rooted in the vibrant New York City music scene, Tinderbox fosters community by providing opportunities to perform, collaborate, and connect. Tinderbox also donates 100% of its net proceeds to organizations involved in empowering the next generation of female artists including GIRLS WRITE NOW (http://girlswritenow.org/gwn/), an organization providing guidance and opportunities for NYC’s underserved high school girls to develop their independent voices and explore careers in professional writing, and the WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS (http://williemaerockcamp.org/), a non- profit music and mentoring program empowering girls and women through music education and activities.
For more information, visit: http://tinderboxmusicfestival.com/
A Concert of works presented by the National Association of Composers/USA –Texas Chapter & Edmonton Society for New Music-Tonus Vivus / Canada
The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts & Humanities
Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 PM, Jonsson Performance Hall
1. George Andrix (Canada)…….….Why Not ? for Violin & Piano
2. Dinos Constantinides…………….…Sonata for Violin and Piano
3. Carson Cooman ……………The Doors in the Sky for Violin solo
4. Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Canada)…..Notturno for Violin and Piano
5. John McGinn …………………..…Scratch Etude for Violin solo
6. Robert J. Morin (Canada)……..Twilight #1 for Violin and Piano
7. Michael Nesuda……………..Sakura, Sakura for Violin & Guitar
8. Wieslaw Rentowski………………………Solaire for Violin solo
9. Erin Rogers (Canada)………The Shape of Things for Violin solo
10. Jacek Sobieraj (Canada)………..Fairytale for Violin and Piano
Hubert Pralitz – violin
Bethany Wildes – violin
John R. McGinn – piano
Michael Nesuda – guitar
This concert is funded in part by the City of Richardson Arts Commission.
A big rock show from Sweet Soubrette! This will be Sweet Soubrette’s last big band show for a little while, so we’re making it special.
Sweet Soubrette will have NINE band members onstage for this one. Our auxiliary band members appeared in the big release show back in January and on our NYC tour stop in April, and we’re excited to be reunited: New Orleans keyboard player Patrick Cronin, local rockstar Stacy Rock singing backup, and a horn section made up of the Hungry March Band’s John Waters and Cecil Scheib along with ThingNY’s Erin Rogers. It will be a glorious sound.
The incredible Kelli Rae Powell will open the night with her band, and two other awesome acts, The NowhereNauts and Odetta Hartman, will follow us. You don’t want to miss this!!!
The show is open to audience members age 16 and up, so feel free to bring your little sister, your kid brother, your underage cousin, your secret love child, or your child bride.
8:00 Kelli Rae Powell (www.kelliraepowell.com)
9:00 Sweet Soubrette (www.sweetsoubrette.com)
10:00 The NowhereNauts (www.facebook.com/thenowherenauts)
11:00 Odetta Hartman
7:30 doors / $10 cover / 16+
Advance Tickets: http://tktwb.tw/mimBQO
To view the Facebook event page, click here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212090962147479
On June 13th at 8:30pm, the New Thread Saxophone Quartet (Justin Marks, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers, Geoff Landman) will be giving their debut concert at the South Oxford Space in Brooklyn, NY.
(Admission – $10)
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, New York
Founded in 2011 in New York City, the New Thread Saxophone Quartet is committed to the creation and performance of saxophone quartet repertoire from New York’s burgeoning new music scene. Members of the ensemble are active as composers, performers, and educators and hold degrees from the most prestigious conservatories and music schools in the US and Europe.
The quartet will present works by György Ligeti, Thierry Escaich, as well as a work by the quartet’s own Erin Rogers. In addition, there will be solo works performed by New Thread’s soprano saxophonist, Geoffrey Landman, written by Christian Lauba, Alfred Desenclos, and Yoshihisa Taira.
For more information on Geoff and New Thread, please visit Geoff’s website: http://www.geoffreylandman.com/
To view our facebook event page, click here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152884328113184
SUN. JUNE 26 3:00PM SECRET LOCATION
A FREE special event for supporters of thingNY. Thanks.
A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.
For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/
GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.
SAT. JUNE 25 3:00PM VAUDEVILLE PARK
26 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.
For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/
GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.
THU. JUNE 23 7:00PM UNIVERSITY OF THE STREETS
7th floor apartment
130 e 7th st. New York, NY 10009
A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.
For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/
GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.
RICO presents:
The New Thread Quartet
Single-Reed Day
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
10:00am – 9:30pm
Featuring:
XASAX
ZZYZX Quartet
Kristen McKeon (RICO product specialist)
Nathan Childers (saxophone)
Michele Gingras (clarinet)
