Ilsa Gilbert: April 28th at 3pm'ILSA GILBERT: THE POET OF BLEECKER STREET'
An 80th Birthday Celebration to poet/librettist ILSA GILBERT

Sunday April 28, 3 PM
St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue)
Suggested Donation: $15; $10 for students/seniors/unemployed
Reservations: 212.477.1594

Poet/librettist and longtime Village resident ILSA GILBERT will be feted on the occasion of her 80th birthday by Downtown Music Productions.   Gilbert has enjoyed a long association with Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions, having written the libretti and poetry for numerous operas and song cycles presented by the long-standing music organization.   A large cast of musicians, vocalists, and dancers will assemble to perform a rich program of works associated with Ms. Gilbert.   Celebration is Sunday April 28, 3 PM, at St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street.

The program includes excerpts from five operas and art songs presented in past years by Downtown Music Productions, all with libretti by Ilsa Gilbert:
The Bundle Man, opera by Marshall Coid, with an appearance by countertenor Coid
Phoenix Park, opera by David Strickland, featuring soprano Karla Simmons
The First Word, opera by Katrina Cameron, with mezzo Darcy Dunn, baritone Mark Singer, and soprano Karla Simmons
One Night Together, opera by Daniel Burwasser, with Frank Basile, bass
Revelations and Secrets, opera by Chuck Sachs, featuring Mark Singer, baritone.

Composer Elliott Schwartz (b. 1936, NYC) studied composition at Columbia University. His music on this CD is performed by the Kreutzer Quartet who is dedicated to performing and recording new works, both collectively and as soloists, Longbow, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Aaron Shorr and Nicole Johnson. The new CD includes String Quartet No. 2: For Louise and Aaron ; Memorial in 2 Parts - I. and II. for violin and piano; Tapestry; for violin, cello, and piano; and Water Music for strings and recorded sounds.

Raoul PleskowThe School of Music and the Center for University Studies present Music of Raoul Pleskow. The composer will be in attendance at this concert featuring works composed in honor of Dr. Samuel Hsu. There will be a reception honoring Raoul Pleskow to follow.

Program:
Piece for Four Instruments (2012)  (fl, cl, bsn, pf)
 

Maestro Hsu:  (solo pf)
       His Pavane (2005)
       His Fantasy (2010)
       His Elegy (2011)

  Albumblätter für Marshall (2008)
  “Von meinen Winter bewußt” (“feeling my age”)

Elliott SchwartzBeth WiemannThis weekend, the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine, will present the 5th annual Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival from April 12-14. This year’s festival is directed by Joshua DeScherer and Elliott Schwartz, and will feature Boston-area composer and Tufts University professor John McDonald.

Friday, April 12, 7 PM: Concert featuring music by Mark Tipton, Beth Wiemann, William Matthews, Gia Comolli, and Mark Piszczek. 

Saturday, April 13:

Lunatics at Large

Barbara Jazwinski

The Newcomb Department of Music at Tulane University presents a concert of music by American women composers on Sunday, April 14th at 3pm, in Dixon Recital Hall. The event is organized by composer Barbara Jazwinski, The Virginia Beer Professor of Music at Tulane, and Music Director, Spectri Sonori Contemporary Music Concert Series. The New York based ensemble, Lunatics at Large will perform works from the ACA catalog by Elizabeth Austin, Eleanor Cory, Barbara Jazwinski, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Beth Wiemann, and Joan Tower. Performing at this concert will be Amelia Lukas, flute; Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Arthur Moeller, violin; Jen Herman, viola; and Steven Beck, piano.

Hailed as "young, energetic, and finely polished" by the New York Times, LUNATICS AT LARGE is a dynamic New York City-based ensemble that was formed at Mannes College of Music in 2007. Through thematic, interdisciplinary performances in ensemble formations ranging from solo to the full septet and beyond, the group juxtaposes established masterpieces of the 20th century against more recent works. Lunatics at Large thus encourages listeners to hear similarities between works written decades apart and to consider recent compositions within the context of the evolution of classical music since 1900.

Tonight begins the 2013 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.  21 concerts will be presented between Tuesday and Saturday April 2-6.  Distinguished guests from all over the world will take part in the festival.  Further details are available at  www.nycemf.org. Most concerts are at the CUNY Graduate Center, but the opening program on Tuesday April 2nd is at the Skirball Center at NYU. Other concerts are at Galapagos Art Space and Shape Shifter Lab, both in Brooklyn.

2013 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival  Concert Schedule below. For tickets, venue maps, etc. go here.

Tuesday, April 2 

Concert 1: Skirball Center, NYU, 7:30-10 PM

Andrew Lewis, Dark Glass 

Eric Lyon, NJ Honcho Wing (for John Chowning)

Elsa Justel, Yegl

Terry Pender, A Gentle Man

Francesco Galante, Itineraires (pour Edgard Varèse)

Tae Hong Park, The Machine Stops

Judy Klein, The Wolves of Bays Mountain

Christopher Haworth, Vertizontal Hearing (Up & Down, I then II)

Elizabeth Hoffman, Soundendipities

Eric Lyon, Spaced Images with Noise and Lines 

Hubert Howe, Emergence

Full schedule (continued)

Boca Raton Symphonia: photo by Robert Stolpe

Lawrence Dillon

The Boca Raton Symphonia presents: CONNOISSEUR Concert 5 - April 21, 2013 - 4 pm; Constantine Kitsopoulos, Guest Conductor, Ilana Setapen, Violin Soloist

Program:
DILLON Amadeus ex Machina
DVORAK Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 in F major, op. 93

Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex Machina for chamber orchestra is a whimsical re-imagining of Mozart's 40th symphony from the perspective of