Finally, saxophone in the symphony!
The Astoria Symphony opens its 6th season with a remarkable program. Miranda Cuckson performs Alban Berg’s haunting Violin Concerto, one of the few orchestral pieces to feature saxophone as part of the symphonic palette. We will also hear the world premiere of Steve Horowitz’s Mix/Remix. In honor of Hispanic heritage month, we also feature a Latin American Folk Song Suite, a newly commissioned work by the young Puerto Rican composer Angelica Negron, and Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas’ bombastic tour de force La Noche de los Mayas, featuring the Queens College Percussion Ensemble, directed by the Aaron Copland School of Music Professor of Percussion, Michael Lipsey.
Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:00 pm
Good Shepherd Faith Church
152 West 66th Street, New York, NY, 10023
Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:00 pm
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center – Main Stage
31-10 Thompson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101
For more information, or to order tickets, go to :
http://astoriamusic.org/programs/transformaciones.html
Join the composers of Random Access Music, as they team up with the Lost Dog Ensemble to present an evening of momentous new works by David Fetherolf, Jonathan Pieslak, Erin Rogers, Manly Romero and Allen Schulz, featuring guest artists Tadd and Erica Sipes, and a special presentation of Eco di un tempo perduto (fl, cl, vn, vc, pf) by Italian composer, Massimo Lauricella, winner of the 2009, RAM call for scores.
Thurs, April 23rd at 8pm
Waltz Cafe, Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Blvd.
Astoria, NY 11105
subway directions:
N/W train to Ditmars Blvd., walk West on Ditmars Blvd. toward 23rd St.
The Lost Dog players are:
Christine Perea, flute
Tom Piercy, clarinet
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Emily Brausa, cello
Laura Barger, piano
Random Access Music and IKTUS percussion quartet invite you to an evening of new works for percussion
Saturday, October 18th, 8:00pm,
Symphony Space
Leonard Nimoy Thalia,
2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
For tickets, click here: http://www.astoriamusic.org/calendar/index.html
Shallow for alto and tenor saxophones in duo, commissioned by performers Jessica Simms and Carl Wiggins, will be premiered on Friday, April 18th at 1:00pm in Columbia, South Carolina, as part of the 2008 NASA Biennial Conference.
For a complete schedule of conference events, including more information about this performance, please visit the University of South Carolina School of Music home site, or click on the link below:
http://www.music.sc.edu/fs/leaman/NASAHome.html
Random Access Music, together with the Lost Dog Ensemble, presents 6 exciting premiers by RAM composers. Join us as we Bring in Spring with a colorful, dynamic program at Manhattan’s Tenri Cultural Institute.
$15, 8pm
visit: www.RAM-NYC.org for more information
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
www.tenri.org
The avant-awesome enfants terribles that make up thingNY return to the Tank to do their thing. Joined by Astoria Symphony conductor Silas Huff, the things will give the American premiere of Huff’s Der Whisky and the world premieres of new works by thingNY composers Andrea La Rose, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto and Jeffrey Young. Also on the program: music by Deep Listening composer Marc Jensen with animation by Dan Pinto, Frederic Rzewski’s powerful Attica, noise/art/noise improvisation, and a brief stint on the Elliot Carter 100th birthday bandwagon.
About thingNY:
The New Yorker’s Alex Ross called new music uber-group thingNY part of the city’s burgeoning avant-garde classical music scene “striking an attitude of resistance to mainstream culture”. This exciting new music collective, comprised of composers, instrumentalists and singers from the New York metro area, revels in creating and performing unrelenting experimental new works with passion and enthusiasm, oscillating between the “sweeter sounds” and the “punishingly loud”.
thingNY: Gelsey Bell, voice – Andrea La Rose, flute – Andrew Livingston, cello/bass – Paul Pinto, voice/percussion – Erin Rogers, saxophone – Stefanos Tsigrimanis, guitar – Jeffrey Young, violin
$10, 9:30pm
visit: www.thingNY.com for more information
The Tank
279 Church Street (b/w White & Franklin)
New York, NY 10013
www.theTankNYC.org
Join AMS and the Astoria Symphony for our first performance at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center. LPAC will be the new home of the Astoria Symphony this coming season and we are delighted to present our first program in this magnificent venue. The symphony will feature works by Puccini, Barber, Lezcano and Beethoven. For more information, visit:
www. astoriamusic.org
Laguardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thompson Ave, Long Island City, Queens
No date for V-day? Check out Thing at:
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
(718) 453-6343
www.goodbye-blue-monday.com
For more information, visit www.ThingNY.com
Come share a drink with us! On Friday, February 1st, join the composers of Random Access Music at Connolly’s Pub for bevy’s and cheer. Make a donation and take home a copy of our new CD, Multiple Guess Test. For more information, visit: www.RAM-NYC.org, or email us at info@RAM-NYC.org.
Hope to see you there!
Connolly’s Pub
121 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
212.597.5126