The Los Angeles music collective Wild Up is creating a series of performances and a multi-volume anthology to carry his music forward, starting with Femenine. The minimalist Femenine debuted in 1974, two years before Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach had their first performances; yet Eastman was punished for being ahead of his time, in the rejection of both his music and his person. “Wild Up’s new rendition takes a page from Eastman’s personal playbook: It’s exuberant, a bit in your face, sometimes capricious, and always surprising.” (NPR Music)
The Brick presents You Against Nature + Your People Saying Hello
by Joseph White, ThingNY, + Aaron Siegel
Sunday, March 19, 2023 // 8pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn NY
sliding scale $15-25 (buy tickets)
Joseph White‘s opera, You Against Nature, ingeniously brought to life by ThingNY, is a potpourri of song, text, visual candy, and sonic froth based on 19th century decadent novel, “Against Nature.” Your People Saying Hello is the solo project of composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel. Equal parts storytelling, poetry reading and sonic ritual, Your People performances feature synths, spoken texts, songs, and percussion.
You Against Nature: Joseph White – Composer Gelsey Bell – Vocals, Keyboard Andrew Livingston – Cello Paul Pinto – Vocals, Percussion Erin Rogers – Saxophones Dave Ruder – Laptop, Narration
Your People Saying Hello: Aaron Siegel – Composer, Percussion, Voice, Synthesizers
You Against Nature is a new opera by Joseph White, commissioned by ThingNY. Blending elements of monologue, Webernian pointillism, karaoke, and electronic klangfarbenmelodie, You Against Nature offers a maximalist sound world with a lean, stripped-down ensemble of merrymakers. Based on Joris-Karl Huysmans‘ remarkable, and remarkably-decadent 19th century novel, “”Against Nature,”” You Against Nature explores timely themes of isolation, decadence, hedonism, and the limits of self-sufficiency.
Brooklyn-based composer Dan Joseph will offer a program of new and recent chamber works, including Underground Suite for marimba and saxophone, Eucalyptus Quartet for violin, cello, saxophone and clarinet, and a new work for piano, with pianist Marija Ilic, saxophonists Erin Rogers and Chris Mannigan, percussionist Danny Tunick, violinist Tom Chiu and cellist Clara Kennedy.
Thursday, March 9, 2023 // 8:00 pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
doors: 7:00pm
The University of Virginia Department of Music presents Popebama on Friday, February 24th at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall as part of the Composition and Computer Technologies Ensemble in Residence program. The duo will be performing pieces composed by our graduate student composers, Daniel Fishkin, Kristin Hauge, Molly Joyce, Varun Kishore, Brian Lindgren and Matias Vilaplana Stark. The concert is free and open to the public.
Friday, February 24, 2023 – 8:00pm
Old Cabell Hall
University of Virginia Arts & Sciences
Charlottesville, VA 22903
From concert stages (Hamburg’s Elbphilarmonie, The Shed NYC), to DIY venues (The Stone NYC, Diabolical Records, H0l0) to academic institutions (UMass Amherst, Freiberg hochschule für musik, Peabody Conservatory), Popebama brings a level of performance virtuosity, visual wonderment, and theatrical flare to an unconventional sound world.
Catch the high-energy duo in residence at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Feb 2-3
// 7:30 pm Westbrook Music BuildingRoom: 119
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1104 R St, Lincoln, NE 68508
Written for 6 electronics players, Telegraph features the live performance of 6 players on amplified, electronic, and feedback instruments, diffusing sound in real time through stage movement and speaker spatialization. Ensemble Decipher commissioned Telegraph, with support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund and will give the premiere performance as part of their Michigan State University residency in late January, 2023 alongside works by Sam Pluta, Joseph Bohigian, Oliver Hickman and Mari Kimura.
Guest Artist: Ensemble Decipher
January 27, 2023 // 8:00pm
Murray Hall
College of Music
Michigan State University
Students: FREE, Seniors: $10, Adults: $12
Ensemble Decipher: Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Joseph Bohigian, Chelsea Loew, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Taylor Long.
NTQ is excited to join composer Roberto Scarcella Perino for a NYC production of his opera Furiosus for vocalists, string quartet, sax quartet, piano, and percussion. Details coming soon!
New Thread Quartet is headed to Binghamton University for a 2-day residency. We will be working with their composition students on new works for saxophone quartet including workshops, a panel talk on entrepreneurship, and a concert performance of student compositions alongside some works from NTQ’s repertoire.
Monday, Jan 30 – Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023
Anderson Center
Binghamton University
4400 Vestal Parkway East
Binghamton, NY, 13902