Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

thingNY will be playing a set along with some other great bands in an effort to save and preserve this 43-year-old Lower East Side cultural institution. Tickets are available now and include all-night admission + food and drink. We’ll play some of our favorite works, plus some of our favorite SPAM and a selection from our opera that was and will be again: ADDDDDDDDD. Check out the Preservation page for a listing of the other artists.

6pm – 11pm

The University of the Streets – 130 E 7th Street (at Ave. A), New York, NY
Tax-deductible tickets start at $25 each, or  2 for $40. Get them here: http://www.universityofthestreets.org/preservation

Sat, Dec 19th

You’re invited to a very special event!
SAT. Dec. 19 @ 7pm
thingNY presents SPAM
University of the Streets – 130 E 7th Street at Avenue A (see below for subway directions)
Limited seating: get discount advance tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/88612
Ensemble thingNY boasts the largest commission ever in the history of email submitted SPAM. Hundreds of new works written specifically for thingNY by the likes of Kyle Gann, Kathy Supove, Pauline Oliveros, Joseph Nechvatal, Tania Leon, various peers, friends, fans, our moms, the Bloomberg Administration, our stalkers, unsubscribers and mailer-daemons.
$10/$15
http://www.thingNY.com

Time Out New York called us an “inventive new music cabal”

“If I was forty years younger I would run away and join you.” – Doug Yule (of the Velvet Underground)

“Truly a thing of great beauty, and wonder. Thank god there are groups like thingNY (or maybe you’re the only one)” – Art Jarvinen (composer/author)

subway directions to University of the Streets:
L train to 1st Ave, walk South to 7th St, East to Avenue A
6 train to Astor Place, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
R/W trains to 8th St, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
F/V trains to 2nd Ave, walk North to 7th St, East to Avenue A

THINGNY WANTS YOUR SPAM

Dear Friend,

We are thingNY, a collective of composer-instrumentalists based in New York City. On Saturday, December 19, 2009, we will be presenting a concert called SPAM, based on responses we get to this very email. Congratulations! If you’re reading this email, you’ve been selected to write us some music – even if you’ve never written music before. It could be a few words, a notated score, a set of instructions, a drawing, a video of your dog, your favorite photo of Leonard Nimoy, or anything else you can imagine. It could even be something that takes a second or two to perform.

Please send your new work to thingNY@gmail.com or post on our blog and be sure to include your name and where you’re from. Any reply that we receive by Saturday, November 19th has the potential to be included in whole or in part. You are, of course, welcomed and encouraged to attend the performance, which will be held at the University of the Streets in New York City. Please forward this email to your friends, family, and acquaintances – let’s make this a great show! We look forward to receiving your composition, and we promise we will do our best to satisfy your artistic desires.

Best wishes,

Paul, Jeff (violin), Isabel (cello), Gelsey (vocals), Erin (saxophone), Alejandro (clarinet)

Season Opener: Around the World in 24 Hours Festival
New York avant-garders, thingNY take the stage of the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (along with over a dozen other acts from around the world) as part of a 24-hour marathon of performances curated by The Internationalists. thingNY’s performance will feature painted scores, video projection, sonic theatre, empty bottles, punishments, eskimos, and both newly-penned and gently used works by composers Brad Baumgardner, Hans Buetow, Morton Feldman, Art Jarvinen, David Lang, Luis Menacho and Stephen Rogers.

thingNY goes on around 11pm
(marathon runs from 5pm on Nov. 7 to 5pm on Nov. 8)

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thompson Ave. Long Island City, Queens, NY
admission: $24 (full festival line-up), $12 (all shows after midnight)
www.theinternationalists.org for more info

Alejandro Acierto, clarinet
Gelsey Bell, soprano
Isabel Castellvi, cello
Michael Hanf, percussion
Andrew Livingston, bass
Paul Pinto, conductor
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Jeffrey Young, violin

$5 donation goes to support the University of the Streets (a not-for-profit performance space)
Donations for the musicians are also encouraged.

Saturday, May 22 @ 8:00
Saint Peter’s Church
346 West 20th Street
Chelsea, Manhattan (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Tickets $15 advance/$20 door
Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Random Access Music presents a concert of works performed by the Chicago-based Anubis Saxophone Quartet. Works by Random Access Music member-composers Andrew McKenna Lee, David Fetherolf, Jonathan Pieslak, Erin Rogers, and B. Allen Schulz will be presented on the program, along with the winning work of RAM‘s 2010 call for scores Howling at the Wind by Dana Wilson. A reception, with composer and performer question-and-answer period, will follow.

RANDOM ACCESS MUSIC is a consortium of composers who pool their energy and resources to produce concerts of their own music. Founded in 2006, RAM works closely with both emerging and well-established new music ensembles throughout the United States and has presented 12 separate concerts of music by its member-composers. RAM‘s six member-composers have won almost every young composers’ prize in the book and have drawn critical acclaim from coast to coast and internationally, including the following excerpts from periodicals such as the New York Times and Time Out New York: “remarkably inspired,” “diverse and rousing,” “personal, moody and skillfully wrought,” “quirky, sparkling…fresh sounds,” “powerful and intense;” and the music “causes you to prick up your ears.” To learn more about Random Access Music, visit: www.RAM-NYC.org.

Anubis Quartet is a new-generation modular saxophone ensemble committed to the creation, progression, and performance of new music. The four musicians of Anubis Quartet, Ryan Muncy, Allison Balcetis, David Wegehaupt, and Sean Patayanikorn, regularly perform on all members of the saxophone family, resulting in engaging and varied performances that exponentially increase the possibilities of expression through sound.

Formed in 2007, Anubis has quickly gained regard as one of North America’s major contemporary saxophone ensembles, having performed as guests at Bowling Green State University, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference at the University of South Carolina. In addition to a Chicago debut performance at Nichols Concert Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, engagements during the previous concert season included the presentation of new works at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand at the 15th World Saxophone Congress, and a performance at the NASA Region IX conference in Edmonton, Alberta. The quartet has commissioned and premiered works by major living composers including Thierry Alla, Philippe Laval, Mikel Kuehn, Claudio Gabriele and Vincent Bouchot. Anubis Quartet includes two Fulbright Scholars, one Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Gold Medalist, one semi-finalist in the Adolphe Sax International Competition, five diplomas from major French conservatories, one collaborator on a first-round Grammy Award nominated album, and the 4th place winner of the 2008 Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition. To learn more about the quartet, visit: www.anubisquartet.com

Hooray! We’re now a Non-Profit!
Come out and Support thingNY
For Our First Fundraiser
Monday, June 22, 2009
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
At Vig 27
(In The Back Room)
Located at 119 East 27th Street (between Park and Lex)

Ticket Price Ranges:
$501 – Better than an Opera Star
$201 – $500 – Opera Star
$101 – $200 – Elitist
$51- $100 – Storn Child
$20 – $51 – Groupie

Stop by for a cocktail and some great conversation. There will also be musical performances from the group, special words from a special guest and highlights from our past and upcoming seasons. Please feel free to attend even if you have not already RSVP’d.

Hope to see you there!

The composers of Random Access Music are pleased to welcome Jessica Mathaes <http://www.jessicamathaes.com/>, concert master of the Austin Symphony, for an evening of chamber works for violin and piano at Manhattan’s Tenri Cultural Institute <http://www.tenri.org/>. The concert will feature 6 works from the composers of RAM.