PERSONA

Music by Keeril Makan
Libretto adapted by Jay Scheib from the Ingmar Bergman screenplay
Direction by Jay Scheib
Music Direction by Evan Ziporyn
Music performed by Either/Or Ensemble
Co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects

Beth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.

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Music for Contemplation presents:
STUART DEMPSTER
SONIC BREATHING AND CIRCULAR MEDITATIONS

Saturday, October 3, 2015
8:05pm 10:05pm
Church of the Annunciation
259 N 5th St at Havemeyer and Metropolitan Brooklyn, NY 11211

Works by Stuart Dempster for solo trombone, didjeridoo and large trombone ensemble. The trombones resonate throughout the space, embracing listeners in their tones. Featuring Jen Baker and Monique Buzzarté.

$15 suggested donation at the door.
 

Final concert of 2015 5ive Boroughs Music Festival

Monday, June 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 PM
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, MANHATTAN

5BMF’s 2014-2015 season concludes in June with the exciting vocal talents of EKMELES! These master interpreters of avant garde vocal music, led by director and baritone Jeffrey Gavett, will join with musicians from TILT Brass and the loadbang ensemble in a thrilling program of works for brass and voice.

Featuring two US Premieres by contemporary European masters and a World Premiere by a young American talent, this new program showcases the flexibility and expressive possibilities inherent in voice and brass. Join us before the concert for a special discussion about creating works for these forces led by Ekmeles director Jeffrey Gavett, composer Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, and trombonist Will Lang (soloist in prosodia daseia).

Program
MATTHIAS SPAHLINGER: über den frühen tod fräuleins anna augusta marggräfen zu baden (US Premiere)
WOLFGANG RIHM: SKOTEINÓS (US Premiere)
CHRISTOPHER FISHER-LOCHHEAD: prosodia daseia (World Premiere)

Performers
Ekmeles: Charlotte Mundy, Mary Mackenzie, Kirsten Sollek, Tomás Cruz, Brian Giebler, Jeffrey Gavett, Kelvin Chan, and Steven Hrycelak, vocalists
Instrumentalists: Andy Kozar, trumpet; Will Lang, Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker and Matt Melore, trombones; Michelle Farah, oboe; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet

Tickets: $25 General Admission

TILT Brass, 2014 Look & Listen Festival, Invisible Dog Arts Ctr

TILT Brass presents the 2015 installment of To TILT, its on-going series of concerts and recordings that feature work created for the organization's specific forces and skills. The program at University Settlement includes newly commissioned works written for TILT Brass Sextet by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and trombonist/composer and long-time TILT performer Jacob Garchik.

The Sextet will also premiere an expanded version of TILT Director Chris McIntyre's multi-movement work Fabrics (2014-15) and his transcriptions from Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning, composed in the early 1980's.

This event takes place during a set of concerts co-organized by TILT and our stellar colleagues at Either/Or (performing on June 10th and 13th.) Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the excellent acoustics of University Settlement's Speyer Hall is a perfect venue for these not-to-be-missed concerts during NYC's busy Summer season.


Either/Or at Miller Theater

CJM joins and all-star group (James Rogers, Yarn/Wire, Ilan Volkov) to perform ensemble realizations of work by Wolf Eyes' Nate Young. Opening night of Tectonics Festival New York 2015.

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CJM is Music Director for an evening of works by renown visual artist and musician Stephen Prina. 

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Personnel:
composer, guitar, vocal - Stephen Prina
Music Dir. - Chris McIntyre
oboe - Michelle Farrah
clarinet - Christa Van Alstine
trumpet - Tim Leopold
horn - Rachel Drehmann
trombone - Will Lang
violin - Jenny Choi
viola - Erin Wight
piano - Stephen Gosling
flute 1 - Margaret Lancaster
flute 2 - Barry Crawford
flute 3 - Jessica Schmitz
flute 4 - Katie Cox
flute 5 - Roberta Michel
flute 6 - Valerie Coleman-Page

TILT Brass kicks off its Spring 2015 season at JACK, an intimate neighborhood multi-arts venue located in Clinton Hill. The program revisits TILT's creative music origins with work highlighting the improvisational skill and experience of its players. The program features a wide range of recent and classic graphic and strategic scores. Composers include Berlin-based English composer and electronic musician Richard Barrett, an early composition by legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, and selections from Cornelius Cardew's touchstone graphic score Treatise.

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Detail from Braxton's "Comp. 18" (1971) 

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - Music Director, trombone
trumpet Timothy Leopold, Andrew Kozar, Tom Verchot
trombone Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers (bass)
Nathan Koci - horn, accordion

PROGRAM
Anthony Braxton 8KN-(J-6) [aka Comp. 18] (1971)
                                       1
                                       R10
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Treatise (1963-67)
Richard Barrett Codex XII (2013)
Other works TBA

From Roulette's website:

In his first New York concert in four years Nicolas Collins presents a mix of recent works for ensemble and solo electronics. In Roomtone Variations the resonant frequencies of the Roulette concert hall are mapped, in real time, through controlled acoustic feedback, and projected as staff notation. Once the staves are filled the musicians in Either/Or improvise variations on the notes, gradually stepping through this site-specific “architectural tone row”. The computer-generated notation in Bracken guides the ensemble through interactions inspired by Christian Wolff’s “coordination” scores of the 1960s, extended by adapting techniques of electronic music onto acoustic instruments. In Speak Memory data files of pictures are encoded in sound, played back through speakers, momentarily stored in the reverberation time of the hall, but “forgotten” as the sound decays; the process is recorded, then reviewed in slow motion, revealing the erosion of sound and image. Circuits and software round out an evening of adventurous electro-acoustic music.

Featuring two premieres from a long-time E/O collaborator. If We Knew the Sky, for large ensemble (world premiere, commissioned by E/O with support from the Jebediah Foundation), and Letting Time Circle Through Us, for sextet (NY premiere, commissioned by E/O with support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning USA).

Invited by music faculty member Harris Eisenstadt, TILT Brass Trio performs a wide range of historical works for the students and community at SUNY Maritime in The Bronx.

Chris McIntyre - trombone, Director
Sam Nester - trumpet
Nathan Koci - horn

PROGRAM
Hoquetus David (ca. 1360) - Guillaume de Machaut
See myne owne sweet jewell (1593) - Sir Thomas Morley
From Canzonets or Little Short Songs to three voyces
Fugue II (1722) - J. S. Bach (arr. C. McIntyre)
From Well Tempered Clavier (Book 1)
Sinfonia I (1723) - J. S. Bach (arr. C. McIntyre)
From Inventions and Sinfonias (BWV 772–801)
Allegro & Menuetto from Divertimento II K.229 No.2 (1803) - W. A. Mozart
Sonata (1924) - Francis Poulenc
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante
III. Rondeau
Elite Syncopations (1902) - Scott Joplin (arr. B. Holcombe)
Selections from Bela Bartok Set for brass trio - arr. C. McIntyre
From Mikrokosmos (1940) except where noted
In Three Parts
Tale
VI [from 14 Bagatelles (1908)]
Bulgarian Rhythm 2
Bulgarian Rhythm 1
Freedom Jazz Dance (1965) - Eddie Harris (arr. C. McIntyre)
Guest - Harris Eisenstadt, percussion

UllU plays John King's Born Into Flames series at Spectrum
$15

Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor (between delancey and rivington)
2 blocks from the F, M, J/Z trains at Essex/Delancey.

UllU joins violinist Todd Reynolds in a double bill on John King's monthly series Born Into Flames. UllU (Hindi for “owl”) is Chris McIntyre on trombone, tapes, synths, and drums, and Either/Or's David Shively on feedback-drumkit, tapes, and piano. They share an interest in the ecstatic potential of the drone and an inability to escape Modernism. UllU perform works of extended duration in which practical mechanics of sound production collide with formal concerns. Previous shows at Incubator Arts Project, The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, and collaborations with TILT Brass, Eli Keszler, Taylor Levine, and James Fei. August, UllU’s debut recording, is available on Non-Site Records. In South Asian tradition, the owl is in fact considered a very foolish bird.

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On July 25 & 26, TILT Brass joins a stellar cast of New Music stars to give the World Premiere recent Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams' Sila: The Breath of the World. The new piece was commissioned by Mostly Mozart and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

TILT Brass for Sila:
trumpet – Mike Gurfield, Tom Bergeron, Tim Leopold, Matt Mead, Sam Nester, Stephanie Richards
trombone – Jen Baker, Daniel Linden, Mike Lormand, Chris McIntyre
horn – Wei-Ping Chou, Jenny Ney, Jason Sugata, Cameron West
tuba – John Altieri, Ben Stapp

More details on the Lincoln Center website.