6 hours long, scored for 28 musicians (including three microtonal pianos), 8 singers, and 6 dancers with music by composer Dylan Mattingly and text by Thomas Bartscherer, Stranger Love is a grand celebration of being alive. It follows two lovers whose romance unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons. Set on a vast time-scale against the ever-expanding universe, it broadens in scope and frame over the course of three acts, moving from the personal to the archetypal to a vision of the divine — a love supreme.

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Grab those party hats! Our 2023 10th birthday party gala features incredible music including a world premiere by Nathalie Joachim commissioned by OFS. This special fundraising event will help make our 2023-24 season possible.

Swan Songs is a new evening-length immersive operatic work commissioned by Contemporaneous, created by composer Ethan Braun and librettist Vikram Devasthali, which explores the melodramatic ending in opera, the "swan song." Absorbing all the famous endings of opera, Swan Songs follows both the story of music itself, and the legend of Ariadne escaping the labyrinth, as each try in their own way to flee from the inexorable "swan song." Developed from the ground up through Contemporaneous: IMAGINATION, Swan Songs will see its world premiere at Roulette Intermedium on March 15, 2023.

Horizon features the world premiere of Herbert Franklin Mells's Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, written in 1938.

This landmark performance of his first symphony marks the launch of OFS’s five-year Herbert Franklin Mells Project, which includes the world premieres and first-ever recordings of the composer's large symphonic works written between 1938 and 1944.

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The Rhythm Method will premiere a concert of new works by NYC-based Composers Collective.

More info: http://www.composerscollective.org/#

A performance by the TIMARA Department celebrating their 50th-year anniversary at Oberlin College.

Surround sound technology enables the construction of 360-degree-enveloping sound environments, the choreography of sound through spatialization, and the creation of immersive 'cinema for the ear' experiences. The Sound in the Round concert showcases works by TIMARA faculty that take advantage of this unique sound technology using a state-of-the-art speaker system in the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater. Multichannel Diffusion system by Eli Stine.

Free and open to the public.

Program:

Murmuration No. X      Eli Stine

    3D 5th - order higher order ambisonics

    Eli Stine, live electronics

in the same bare place, color, finally      Peter Swendsen

    Co-creators:

    Helen Newby, cello

    Dan King, percussion

((touch~))    Abby Aresty

sfound Objects: 3 Vertices & 24 Speakers      Tom Lopez

    Justin Gunter, percussion

    Tom Lopez, live electronics

Vestigial Wings     Eli Stine

    video and 3D 5th-order higher order ambisonic fixed media

Shifting Reflections     Aurie Hsu

    Alice Blumenfeld, Aurie Hsu, dance

https://www.ucmfnyc.com/sunday

CONCERT PROGRAM TO INCLUDE Leonid Hrabovsky, Trio for Violin, Bass and Piano Anna Korsun, Wehmut Svyatoslav Lunyov, Zehn Stücke Ludmila Yurina, Silicon Interferences Ivan Nebesnyy, 7 Messages from Wild Nature Serhii Pilyutikov, Quintet Maxim Kolomiiets, Vinyl Snails Volodymyr Runchak, Fingerprints on Strings, Keys, and Valves Daniil Hetman, And with its Feet Cuts through the Path it Follows

PERFORMERS INCLUDING NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble Lindsay Eckenroth, flute Jennifer Gliere, soprano Alexandra Jordan, trumpet Carrie Frey, viola Tessa Pettit, horn Margarita Rovenskaya, piano Erin Lensing, oboe Adrianne Munden-Dixon, violin Marina Kifferstein, violin Helen Newby, cello Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet Julia Biber, cello Tristan Kasten-Krause, bass Alexander Chaplinsky, piano and more!  

Caroline Shaw | Entr’acte
Samuel Barber | Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Maurice Ravel | Ma mère l'Oye, “Mother Goose Suite”

***FREE DRINKS all night included with your ticket!***

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Please join us in the heart of Bushwick for the fourth Blank Canvas concert at Future Space, a new immersive arts venue and active R&D facility. Blank Canvas showcases experimental musicians sharing their vision of forward-looking chamber music.

The aromatic and refreshing string trio Chartreuse (Myra Hinrichs, Carrie Frey, and Helen Newby) returns to Future Space for a set featuring Anna Thorvaldsdottir's “Spectra” and Kurt Isaacson's “as a family of civilian ghosts phase-shifts through the fog lights.” The set will also feature the world premiere of Peter Kramer's “some things spoken a handful of times.”

Meaghan Burke will present a set of her chamber-pop songs for cello and voice, including pieces from her upcoming album, “A Few Concerns,” and excerpts from her newest long-form work, “The Wandering Womb.” Burke’s set will also include a collaboration with Chartreuse based around Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho fragments, which she will be setting for the trio in a newly commissioned work.

$20 at the door/$10 with student ID

Cash only

http://www.ensemblechartreuse.com

http://www.meaghanburkemusic.com/

The classic silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1928 silent French historical film based on the actual record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan. 

The movie will be accompanied by a live score. The score was written by vocalist and composer Simona Smirnova, and comprises a string quartet, live vocals, and Lithuanian zither (kanklės). The musicians performing include Simona on vocals and zither, Lynn Bechtold, first violin; Johnna Wu, second violin; Carrie Frey, viola; and Helen Newby, cello.

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Matt McBane + Build • 8:30pm
Adam Gold, drums; Mike Cassedy, keyboards; Pat Swoboda, bass; Helen Newby, cello.
Build is a Brooklyn-based instrumental band led by composer/violinist Matt McBane and described by New York Magazine as a “rocking post-classical quintet which takes inspiration from minimalist chamber music, instrumental rock, modal jazz, and more.” Its two albums on New Amsterdam Records have received widespread critical acclaim and regular play on NPR stations across the country. This performance will include the premieres of several new pieces from their upcoming third album after a hiatus.
www.mattmcbane.com

Ring in the Holidays by enjoying the festive sounds of the PNC Holiday Concert featuring the Ballet Theater of Scranton, the Choral Society of Northeastern PA and a special visit from you-know-who! This is a fun, family-friendly concert that will get you into the spirit of the most wonderful time of the year!

Ring in the Holidays by enjoying the festive sounds of the PNC Holiday Concert featuring the Ballet Theater of Scranton, the Choral Society of Northeastern PA and a special visit from you-know-who! This is a fun, family-friendly concert that will get you into the spirit of the most wonderful time of the year!

The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and The Treasury, NYC inaugurate the Icons of Sound Festival, presenting a Maria Callas Concert Tribute under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in New York. Featuring Karolina Pilou, Eleni Calenos, Stefanos Koroneos, Costas Tsourakis, Nikoleta Rallis Sydykov and acclaimed Metropolitan Opera Soprano -winner of the 2005 ”Maria Callas International Grand Prix”- Marina Poplavskaya! The event will feature the New York premiere of Yale University’s awarded composer Robinson McClellan’s “Gather me: Sailing to Byzantium” setting of William Buttler Yeats’s homonymous iconic poem, performed by the exquisite Desdemona Ensemble (:Caroline Cassio Drexler, Julia Cassio Henderson, Carrie Frey, Adrianne Munden-Dixon) praised by the New Yorker for their excellence followed by beloved from the Opera Canon with piano accompaniment!
Join us for a memorable and exciting evening on December 2nd, 7:00 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral, Manhattan.

BPL PRESENTS is Central Library's series of arts and culture events, including talks, conversations, and readings with authors, artists and scholars; live music, dance and theater performances; film screenings; and art exhibitions. Events are free or ticketed and are taking place at Central Library's Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Cultural Center, unless noted otherwise.

Program

Angélica Negrón: What Keeps Me Awake
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto featuring Nilko Andreas
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra
Chris Whittaker, Music Director
Nilko Andreas, Guitar

Program

Angélica Negrón: What Keeps Me Awake
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto featuring Nilko Andreas
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra
Chris Whittaker, Music Director
Nilko Andreas, Guitar

Chartreuse presents a free concert at Bloomingdale School of Music (108th and Broadway), where our violist Carrie is on faculty.

A Companion Guide to Sound

Andrew Norman: The Companion Guide to Rome

Amy Brandon: Threads

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Spectra

and more!

J.S. Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BVW 1048
Charles Ives | The Unanswered Question
Felix Mendelssohn | String Symphony No. 11 in F Major

***FREE DRINKS all night included with your ticket!***

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Ghost Ensemble features celebrated experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar in a large-ensemble concert including 4 world premieres. The title work, James Ilgenfritz’s Apophenia V, challenges the human tendency to perceive patterns in ostensibly unconnected material, while Alyssa Aska’s Synchronicities and Elizabeth Adams’s Let haze help you hear you hear us seek moments of genuine, ephemeral connection. In Tides of the Wolf, Escobar joins the ensemble for a preview of the forthcoming opera by Ben Richter and librettist Edie Meidav, engaging with themes of human-animal relationships and climate change. The event concludes with explorations of the mathematical synchronicities of music: Miya Masaoka’s astonishing Four Moons of Pluto and the world premieres of J. P. A. Falzone’s Highly Composite Canon and Jordan Dykstra’s Pitch Gradient with Noise #6 (in Bb).

Greg Spears: Concerto for Two Trumpets and Strings (world premiere)
Brandon Ridenour and Andy Kozar, trumpets
Co-commissioned for Brandon Ridenour by the BMI Foundation and Concert Artists Guild

Phil Kline: Lost in Space (world premiere)
Theo Bleckmann, voice

Julius Eastman: Gay Guerrilla

http://www.thesob.org/concert/music-of-spears-kline-and-eastman/

Washington, D.C. Debut and World-Premieres by Sahba Aminikia and Alyssa Weinberg

Free Admission

Registration is required. Seating is limited and registration does not guarantee your seat(s). Registered guests will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis. Open seats will be given to guests on standby beginning at 7:25 p.m.

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https://nmwa.org/events/shenson-chamber-music-concert-amaranth-quartet

Featuring premieres by Riley Nicholson & Ryan Brown and works by Sahba Aminikia, Philip Glass, Alyssa Weinberg & the winner of our first call for scores!

Featuring a world premiere commission by Sahba Aminikia

Guest Artist Chartreuse String Trio

Program:

Sciarrino: Codex Purpureus

Saariaho: Cloud Trio

Balter: Vision Mantra

Martín Gendelman: TBA (premiere)

Chartreuse presents a free concert at Bloomingdale School of Music (108th and Broadway), where our violist Carrie is on faculty. Come for old sounds made new! Featuring New York premieres of recent works by Daniel Tacke and Matthew Ricketts.

Medieval Mystical

Sciarrino, Salvatore: Codex Purpureus I (1983)

Daniel Tacke: Symbolum: Palilogia (2017)

Eliza Brown: Figure to Ground (2016)

Sofia Gubaidulina: String Trio (1989)

Matthew Ricketts: Another Round (2016)