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17 May
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 6:00PM
Harrison Birtwistle's Bow Down at Brighton Festival
Old Municipal Market
Brighton
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10
The Opera Group
Frederic Wake-Walker Director
Tony Harrison Libretto
A macabre folktale is brought to percussive and visceral life in this interdisciplinary performance. When The Fair Sister is courted by The Suitor, The Dark Sister commits a terrible act of betrayal. But as her crime echoes through the land and across the ages will she finally receive retribution?
Bow Down is an ancient murder ballad reimagined by young performers and players.
Harrison Birtwistle : Bow Down
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19 May
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Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8.00 pm
Re Orso, Opera by Marco Stroppa
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 85€ / reduced-price seats 68€
Brian Asawa Re Orso
Monica Bacelli the worm
Marisol Montalvo Oliba, a courtesan
Alexander Kravets lle trouvère, a courtesan
Cyril Anrep, Geoffrey Carey, Daniel Carraz, Piera Formenti, Papiol courtesans, the brother…
Ensemble intercontemporain
May 19, 21, 22, 2012, 8pm / Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
A legend by the most famous of Verdi's librettists, Re Orso by Arrigo Boito has captured the attention of Marco Stroppa for several years.
A political satire, a fable about power, through lyric verse Re Orso tells the story of a horrible king, Ours, who reigned over Crete before the year 1000. Ours was afraid, above all, of the presence of an earthworm. A solo musician personifies each character of this court and the writing lies in the rhythmic characteristics of the Italian language and the technology of OM Chant. Opera with numbers, with litanies, confessions and orgies, with a disklavier singer and solos of bravery stylizing the rhythms of dance, Re Orso is reminiscent of the rapidity of Verdi's Falstaff. During the second act, the opera becomes purely electronic music, where the meticulous work of the projection of sound in the concert hall becomes a part of the spirit of an opera bouffe.
Marco Stroppa, Re Orso
Commissioned by the Opéra Comique, the La Monnaie De Munt (Brussels), the Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant, and the French government, premiere
Performance in Italian, subtitled in French
Marco Stroppa : Re Orso
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Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 7:15pm - 9:00pm
LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON
DROM, New York
, 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village
United States
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at door
As evidenced on his latest recording Revelation (Joyous Shout!), 90 year-old drummer/leader Forestorn “Chico” Hamilton is still creating vivid, positive, uplifting, and relevant music. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a "Living Jazz Legend", and appointed to the President’s Council on the Arts, this NEA Jazz Master is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers.
DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Spring (March – May) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
www.dromnyc.com
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23 May
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:00pm-8:30pm
Organist Gail Archer Presents “An American Idyll”-
Central Synagogue
123 E. 55th Street, NYC
United States
(212) 838-5122
http://www.centralsynagogue.com
info@centralsynagogue.com
Tickets: Free
Internationally renowned star concert organist Gail Archer celebrates the distinctive voice of American organ music in An American Idyll - a five-concert series touring the churches and synagogues of New York City. Performing a colorful collection of organ music by 20th and 21st century American composers, Archer is slated to premiere two commissioned works: organ preludes He Leadeth me! O Blessed Tho’t!, Be Thou My Vision, and Eternal Father, Strong to Save by Columbia alumnus Hayes Biggs; and a new work (title TBA) by Pulitzer-prize finalist and Vassar College professor Harold Meltzer. Hailed for championing contemporary organ music by female composers, Archer will also feature works by Joan Tower, Judith Lang Zaimont, Pamela Decker, Claire Shore, Libby Larsen, Emma Lou Diemer, and Kim D. Sherman.
www.gailarcher.com
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24 May
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7.30pm
Glass at 75: Symphony No.6
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Tickets: £12.00
Lauren Flanigan soprano (16/03/12: please note change to originally advertised soloist)
Nicholas Collon conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
As part of the 75th birthday celebrations for Philip Glass, the BBC SSO gives the UK Premiere of the composer's Sixth Symphony, an impassioned setting of Allen Ginsberg's protest poem, Plutonian Ode, an outcry against nuclear contamination and pollution. The symphony follows an arc from outrage and condemnation to spiritual and personal transformation. Conducted by Nicholas Collon, Principal Conductor of the Aurora Orchestra, it is preceded by Richard Strauss's epic tone-poem of decay and rebirth, Death and Transfiguration.
Edward Elgar : Sospiri - for harp and string orchestra
Richard Strauss : Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)
Philip Glass : Symphony No.6 ‘Plutonian Ode'
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24 May
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7.30 pm
In Portrait: Harrison Birtwistle
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
Tickets: £22, £15, £9
David Atherton conductor
Tom Service presenter
Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation
The London Sinfonietta’s long association with British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle continues with an event which will uncover his musical language, featuring examples from earlier works and including the UK premiere of his latest composition for the ensemble, In Broken Images based on a poem by Robert Graves of the same name. The first half will be an on-stage introduction to the music led by music writer Tom Service in conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle and illustrated with musical extracts played live by the London Sinfonietta. Once you’ve gained an insight into how the legendary composer thinks about his music, the London Sinfonietta will then perform a selection of compelling works which encapsulate some of the most important elements of his compositional style.
Harrison Birtwistle : Cortege
Harrison Birtwistle : Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
Harrison Birtwistle : 5 Distances for 5 Instruments
Harrison Birtwistle : In Broken Images
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24 May
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 19:45
Onyx Brass with Mark Stone (Baritone)
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX
United Kingdom
0844 875 0073
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/
Tickets: £10-22
Onyx Brass
Mark Stone
Nearly 20-years-old, Onyx Brass present an intriguing and uplifting programme with music from their latest CDs Time to Time and Fugue, as well as new commissions by Andrew Hamilton and Dan Jenkins. The concert also includes the UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen's Round and In Between.
They are joined by internationally renowned baritone Mark Stone, whose rich voice adds a gleam to the evening's entertainment, performing new arrangements of classic works by Ives and Barber
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24 May
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7.30 pm
CBSO The Year 1912: Ives and Prokofiev
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
Tickets: £10 - £39.50
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
1912: and as Charles Ives imagined what it would sound like if two marching bands collided, the student Prokofiev threw his feisty First Piano Concerto straight in the faces of his outraged professors. Andrew Litton turns up the voltage for this high-octane programme, and then goes even further, with the symphony that threw a stick of dynamite under British music. Walton’s volcanic First Symphony is always a gripping ride – hold on to your hats!
Charles Ives : Three Places in New England
Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No 1
Julian Wachner : Symphony No 1
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25 May
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Friday, May 25, 2012 at 7.30pm
Debussy & Shostakovich
St David's Hall
Cardiff
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10-£26
BBCNOW
Conductor François-Xavier Roth
Violin Daniel Hope
The vibrant orchestral colours of Debussy's Images conjure the heat, dancing crowds, and intoxicating fragrance of Spain, including the atmospheric sun-drenched Iberia. Shostakovich's troubled and searingly urgent First Violin Concerto is one of his greatest works. It is preceded by a contemporary piece, Philippe Manoury's Sound and Fury, based on the title of William Faulkner's novel.
Philippe Manoury : Sound and Fury
Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concerto No 1
Claude Debussy : Images
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25 May
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Friday, May 25, 2012 at 7.30pm
Oliver Knussen's 60th Birthday Concert
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: n advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conce
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Piano: Huw Watkins
‘No figure in British contemporary music is more respected than Oliver Knussen’
The Guardian
In his 60th birthday year, BCMG Artist-in-Association Oliver Knussen is widely regarded as a profoundly influential composer and one of Britain’s finest conductors. How better way to end our 2011/12 season than with a celebratory concert featuring his most recent composition and music by young composers championed by Knussen.
Energy, dance, darkness, glistening surfaces, collisions and juxtapositions, jolting rhythms and a slow-burning lyricism; all are present in Tansy Davies’ music. Amongst her works are striking concerti for saxophone (Iris, which BCMG recorded with Simon Haram in December 2010) and trumpet (Spiral House, inspired by the architecture of Zaha Hadid). Tansy’s new concerto for pianist Huw Watkins is inspired partly by the writings of Carlos Castaneda on sorcery and in particular on the symbolism of moths.
Sean Shepherd is one of America’s leading young composers. Oliver Knussen premiered his 2009 orchestral work Wanderlust with the Cleveland Orchestra, and now conducts the UK premiere of These Particular Circumstances, a sequence of uninterrupted episodes titled Floating, Circling, Spinning, Grinding, Sinking, Teetering, Soaring.
In 1975 Oliver Knussen wrote Ophelia Dances for nine players, always intending to add to it; 35 years later comes Ophelia’s Last Dance for solo piano. Premiered in 2010 and revised in 2011, this ten-minute work continues a dance begun all those years ago.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Tansy Davies, open to all ticket holders, lasting approx. 30 minutes.
Sean Shepherd : These particular Circumstances
Tansy Davies : new piece (BCMG commission/ world premiere)
Oliver Knussen : Orphelia's last dance
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25 May
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Friday, May 25, 2012 at 7.30pm
Oliver Knussen 60th Birthday Concert
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Piano: Huw Watkins
‘No figure in British contemporary music is more respected than Oliver Knussen’
The Guardian
In his 60th birthday year, BCMG Artist-in-Association Oliver Knussen is widely regarded as a profoundly influential composer and one of Britain’s finest conductors. How better way to end our 2011/12 season than with a celebratory concert featuring his most recent composition and music by young composers championed by Knussen.
Energy, dance, darkness, glistening surfaces, collisions and juxtapositions, jolting rhythms and a slow-burning lyricism; all are present in Tansy Davies’ music. Amongst her works are striking concerti for saxophone (Iris, which BCMG recorded with Simon Haram in December 2010) and trumpet (Spiral House, inspired by the architecture of Zaha Hadid). Tansy’s new concerto for pianist Huw Watkins is inspired partly by the writings of Carlos Castaneda on sorcery and in particular on the symbolism of moths.
Sean Shepherd is one of America’s leading young composers. Oliver Knussen premiered his 2009 orchestral work Wanderlust with the Cleveland Orchestra, and now conducts the UK premiere of These Particular Circumstances, a sequence of uninterrupted episodes titled Floating, Circling, Spinning, Grinding, Sinking, Teetering, Soaring.
The second UK premiere in the programme comes from Magnus Lindberg - one of the most talented European composers of his generation. Souvenir is the latest commission linked to his residency with the New York Philharmonic and is a 25-minute, three movement work for 18 players.
In 1975 Oliver Knussen wrote Ophelia Dances for nine players, always intending to add to it; 35 years later comes Ophelia’s Last Dance for solo piano. Premiered in 2010 and revised in 2011, this ten-minute work continues a dance begun all those years ago.
Sean Shepherd : These particular Circumstances
Tansy Davies : Nature
Oliver Knussen : Ophelia Dances
Oliver Knussen : Ophelia’s Last Dance
Magnus Lindberg : Souvenir
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25 May
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Friday, May 25, 2012 at 19:30
Caligula
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
6th May-14th May
ENO
New Production
When his adored sister’s death awakes him to a realisation of life’s essential absurdity, the Roman emperor Caligula embarks upon an orgy of sexual depravity and sadistic cruelty in an apparently insane attempt to free himself from the shackles of mortality and morality.
Based upon Albert Camus’s existentialist response to the rise of Hitler and Stalin, but as topical as ever in the era of Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi, Detlev Glanert’s 2006 opera – ‘perhaps the finest German opera of the 21st century’ (Tempo) – offers a disturbing insight into the self-destructive logic driving a decadent and dangerous dictatorship.
Audacious young Australian director Benedict Andrews highlights the timeliness of the opera’s themes by setting his UK premiere production in a football stadium, the kind of vast public arena within which dictators habitually play out their political games.
Detlev Glanert : Caligula
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26 May
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 7.30pm
Debussy & Shostakovich
Brangwyn Hall
Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PE
Wales
01792 475715
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/brangwynhall
mailto:Brangwyn.Hall@swansea.gov.uk
Tickets: Tickets £15.50/£12.50
Conductor François-Xavier Roth
Violin Daniel Hope
The vibrant orchestral colours of Debussy's Images conjure the heat, dancing crowds, and intoxicating fragrance of Spain, including the sun-drenched Iberia. Shostakovich's dark, troubled and searingly urgent First Violin Concerto is one of his greatest works. John Adams's Lollapalooza precedes it: a short punchy dancing firecracker of a piece that'll have you tapping
your foot within seconds.
John Adams : Lollapalooza
Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concerto No 1
Claude Debussy : Images
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31 May
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31 May
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 7.30pm
The New Century: Webern & Berg
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Ilya Gringolts violin
Nicolas Hodges piano
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
"The best music always results from ecstasies of logic," said Alban Berg. But he proved, time and again, that the music of the Second Viennese School could do infinitely more than that. Ilan Volkov conducts as violinist Ilya Gringolts and Nicolas Hodges - arguably the finest living champion of contemporary piano music - join 13 hand - picked BBC SSO players on the impassioned pilgrimage of Berg's extraordinary Chamber Concerto. First, though, the full orchestra explores
the ravishing, crystalline sound-world of Webern's Six Orchestral Pieces - music that Stravinsky compared to diamonds - and lays bare the sensuous and deeply romantic roots of Webern's creative vision in the exquisite Im Sommerwind.
Anton Webern : Im Sommerwind: Idyll for orchestra
Anton Webern : 6 pieces for large orchestra
Alban Berg : Chamber Concerto for piano, violin and thirteen wind instruments
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31 May
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti Showcases New Works
The Stone, NYC
The corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street
United States
http://www.thestonenyc.com
Tickets: $10
Just off a 3-month long tour in Europe and India, composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti returns to his hometown of New York City with a trio of live performances ranging from avant-jazz collaborations to a curatorial concert series in Brooklyn. One of the most innovative composers and improvisers on the new music scene, Lukas neatly bridges the classical-modernist-world-music divide. He combines his post-minimalism compositional style with other facets of contemporary expressions such as noise and electronics as well as indigenous non-Western musical and cultural influences.
Lukas dives into the jazz ilk with a jazz-influenced ensemble, the Lukas Ligeti Quintet featuring Leron Thomas (trumpet), Travis Sullivan (sax), Evan Lipson (bass), LL (drums) and TBA (piano). On the program will be new works by Lukas. He most recently explored the jazz realm in his 2011 release of Pattern Time (Innova) which was described as an unusually articulate hybrid of jazz, modern-classical, and African ideas. It “explored[s] incredibly rhythmic juxtaposition as only Ligeti can (The Jazz Session).”
Tickets: $10/Students $5/Children 12 and Under FREE. To purchase, visit www.thestonenyc.com.
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Friday, June 15, 2012 at 7.30pm
Present Music Love Concert
Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI
United States
Tickets: $35-$15
Present Music
Robin Pluer
Jennifer Goltz
Embrace the universal language of love with Milwaukee’s own cutting-edge new music ensemble -- Present Music. All aspects of love will be explored through music from bliss to heartache and everything in between.
The Love concert will feature a variety of contemporary composers whose music discovers love’s limitless possibilities. Present Music has commissioned Grammy-Award Winner Michael Daugherty, one of the most performed and recorded American composers today, to create a new work for voice and ensemble, entitled The Labyrinth of Love. This world premiere will take the audience on an unpredictable journey through the poetry and writings of women from ancient Greece’s Sappho, Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hollywood's Elizabeth Taylor. Alongside a rich, musical soundscape created by Daugherty, soprano Jennifer Goltz, who possesses a "brilliant voice full of subtle allure and sprightly energy", will join Present Music for this exciting event.
Milwaukee’s own chanteuse extraordinaire, Robin Pluer, will join Present Music in a special performance featuring music from Edith Pilaf.
Michael Daugherty : The Labyrinth of Love
Bright Sheng : Kazakhstan Love Song
Michael Gordon : ac/dc
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