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American Composers Alliance
As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary music, ACA is a publisher-affiliate of BMI, archivist, and concert presenter, with a history dating to 1937. Our catalog of works is one of the most unique and diverse collections of American music in the United States and includes compositions from the early 1900s to the present day by such composers as Miriam Gideon, Robert Helps, Otto Luening, Daniel Pinkham, Dane Rudhyar, Halsey Stevens, Joan Tower, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Charles Wuorinen, and many others.
The Society for Composers, Inc., celebrates the 25-year anniversary of
its compilation album series through the release of Mosaic, a CD
compilation on the Navona
Records label, with music by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Sally Reid, Tasos
Stylianou, Stephen Yip, and others. Allmusic's review excerpt:
"It's not a contest, but the best piece on the disc appears to be Undertow,
a duet for violin and piano by Margaret
Fairlie-Kennedy. Fairlie-Kennedy
has a long career as a composer and apparently began utilizing
serialism early but ran into a wall with it and spent some two decades
in silence. When she resumed, it was with a looser application of her
technique; this piece is still technically very solid, yet it is a
dazzling, complex work that moves in a single-minded direction and has a
definitive impact." See full review here.
Conference
Director, Mario
Davidovsky andMusic
Director, James Baker announce the 2010 Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Founded in 1945, the
Chamber Music Center gives amateur chamber musicians and singers
the
opportunity to participate in ensembles coached by professional
faculty
musicians, live and socialize with composers from the Composers
Conference, and play chamber music informally with old and new
friends.
The shared experience and synergy of these diverse
musicians create
a unique musical community and a very special musical opportunity
for all
the participants.
For
summer 2010 (July 18 - August 1), we welcome guest composers Melinda
Wagner
and Michael Gandolfi to the Composers Conference. In addition, our
professional faculty performers will present concerts of traditional
and contemporary repertoire featuring the music of ten Composers
Conference Fellows. All concerts are free and open to the public.
At Greenwich House, 46 Barrow St., the DownTown Ensemble will
perform improvisatory works by the noted jazz composer Carla Bley. The
work will be realized in the improvisational approach developed during the
heyday of downtown new music going on in SoHo in the 70s into the 80s. The
DownTown Ensemble is one of the last surviving performing groups associated
with the musical styles that emerged around loft concerts at legendary spaces
such as The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, The Alternative Museum, The
Clocktower, etc. The featured performers will be Daniel Goode, Larry
Polansky, and Peter Zummo.
Talea will explore constellations, orbits, and particles of a world
beyond everyday life through a program of works inspired by these element. From
classic experimentalists John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen to today's
masters, Mario Garuti, Alex Mincek and Beat Furrer, this concert will transport
you.
MOMA SUMMERGARDEN CONCERTS presents Juilliard Concert II: New Music for Strings and Piano at MOMA garden, on West 54th St. between 5th-6th Ave.
Members of the New Juilliard Ensemble: Alicia Choi, violin; Heidi Schaul-Yoder,
violin; Eva Gerard, viola; Mimi Yu, cello; Hsiang John Tu, piano will perform Eleanor Cory, String Quartet no. 3 (2009) World premiere; David Snow, Nice Girls Don’t (2002) World premiere; Laura Elise Schwendinger, Song for Andrew (2008) New York premiere; Errollyn Wallen, Music for Tigers (2006) Western Hemisphere premiere
Summergarden is free and
seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The Sculpture Garden may close
if attendance reaches maximum capacity. Entrance to Summergarden is through the
Sculpture Garden gate on West Fifty-fourth Street between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00
p.m. and run approximately one hour to ninety minutes. The Sculpture Garden
closes at 10:00 p.m. In the event of rain, concerts will be held in The Agnes
Gund Garden Lobby, and the Museum’s Fifty-fourth Street entrance will open at
7:30 p.m. The exhibition galleries are closed during Summergarden.
Dr. Albert Glinsky, professor of music at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA, will be
featured on an episode of the PBS show
“History Detectives” scheduled to air on Monday, June 28, at 9
p.m. The episode revolves around the life and work of Russian inventor
and spy Leon Theremin, the subject of a biography Glinsky published in
2000, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage.
Glinsky holds
bachelor and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, and a
doctorate from New York University. His music, which includes vocal,
chamber, solo, electronic, and symphonic works, has earned critical
acclaim and been widely performed in venues such as the Aspen Music
Festival, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trapp, and in England,
France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the
Far East.
"Sudden
Music" a cycle of poetry by Javen Tanner, set to music by Lansing
McLoskey, and Gifts (for you) for Duo Diorama and choreographer Jennifer Kayle,
composed by Burton Beerman--both to be performed for the first time in
New York at the ACA Festival closing concert. Other works featured will
be the magnificent Les Neiges d'Antan by Elizabeth Bell, featuring Keats
Dieffenbach and Yael Manor, plus Michael Slayton's Le Soir Tombe,
featuring soprano, Nicole Pantos, Harold Seletsky's Intimate Flutist,
with Andrew Bolotowsky and Christopher Oldfather, and the Bowdoin New
Music Ensemble, coming from Maine to perform Collage Concertante by
Elliott Schwartz. Program notes here.
The poetry
of OctZukofsky Quartetavio Paz is featured in "Paisaje" by Emil Awad. Other works by
composers Derek Johnson, Richard
Brooks, Jan Gilbert, Kristin Kuster, and David T. Little will be
performed by the Kolot Ensemble, Hadar Noiberg, Yael Manor, the Zukofsky
Quartet, Justin Montigne, Anatole Wieck, and Duo Diorama. Program notes
here. Buy a ticket here.
Colin FoxRaymond
Luedeke's Into the Labyrinth, The Art of Love, New York Preview, with
Colin Fox, and the piano duo of Anagnoson & Kinton. Also on the
program, electroacoustic works by Joel Gressel, John Melby, and Richard
McCandless, plus Eleanor Cory's Celebration for solo piano, with
Christopher Oldfather. Other artists to appear will be Jude Traxler,
percussion, and Duo Diorama, the incredible duo of Winston Choi,
pianist, and MingXuan Hu, violinist. Symphony Space Thalia on Friday night at 7:30pm. Cocktails served in Unwined, available in theater.
Second Instrumental Unit, David Fulmer conductor, will perform works by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Robert Ceely, and Alexandra du Bois at Symphony Space Thalia, in concert #2 of the 2010 chamber music festival of the American Composers Alliance. Also on the program, David Witten and Lawrence Zoernig will perform Richard Cameron-Wolfe's Roerich Rhapsody-Liaison and violist Rudolf Haken will perform Music for Viola and Piano by Matthew Davidson, with Robert Auler, piano.
Opening night of our festival series in Thalia at Symphony Space,
features a world premiere by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad, and
recent works by Kate Soper, Matthew Welch, Frederick Tillis, Robert
Fleisher, Mark Zuckerman and Raoul Pleskow. Artists performing include
Yael Manor and Kolot Ensemble, Lunatics at Large, Wet Ink, and Peter
Vinograde. Program notes here. Buy a ticket here.
Following his success with the hilarious stage opera, Pumped Fiction (2007), John Eaton and his Pocket Opera Players, with the Center for Contemporary Opera, will present Eaton's new work, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the original short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Featured artists include Chris Pedro Trakas, Baritone, Linda Larson, Soprano, Jennifer Roderer, Mezzo-soprano,Tony Boutté, Tenor, and Bass-Baritone, Dominic Inferrera. Karl Kramer is conducting, and the stage director is Marco Capalbo. Production design, sets & costumes, and lighting: Shawn Duan, Janne Larsen, and Stephen Quandt.
An opera by John Eaton Libretto by Estela Eaton
Tue, Jun 15 at 8 pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space
$30 General Symphony Space Members, Students, Seniors $20 Day of Show $32 BUY Event tickets online, or call 212-864-5400
The Institute and Festival
of Contemporary Performance at Mannes will feature Sigol Musings by ACA composer Brian Fennelly, June 15.
"Hair-raisingly virtuosic" pianist Marc Ponthus, "mesmerizing" violinist Rolf Schulte,
and "Revolutionary" Flutist and Composer Robert Dick are scheduled to perform:
Pierre Boulez: Sonatas 1
and 3 (including Constellation Miroir with two pianos),
Elliott Carter: Four
Lauds
Brian Fennelly: Sigol
Musings
Luciano Berio: Sequenza
(for flute)
Robert Dick: Heat
HIstory (for flute with Glissando headjoint) [World Premiere]
Wednesday, June 9th, Composers Concordance presents 'Night Lights' a concert of illuminating music at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd St. (at 11th Ave.) in New York City. Music by Oscar Bettison, Gloria Coates, Dan Cooper, Dinu Ghezzo, Patrick Hardish, Daniel Palkowski, and Dalit Warshaw will be performed. Performers will include: Jay Rozen, euphonium/tuba, Dimitri Dover, Taka Kigawa, piano, Helen Rathbun, flute, Lynn Bechtold, violin, Patricia Sonego, soprano, Esther Lamneck, clarinet, Dalit Warshaw, theremin. $15/$10 students & seniors.
