At the XVIII Stage Internazionale del Saxophono -  Perugia Saxophones in concert, will perform the micro-tonal work, OVER SAXED by John Eaton, as well as music by M.Hayakawa, A. Rossi, G. Lombardi, G. Gershwin, M. Ciccone, and R.Spadoni; Auditorium San Martino, via Leopardi 4, Fermo, Italy.

Lawrence Dillon’s  bagatelle on social media, Poke will be performed by Low and Lower, cellist Brooks Whitehouse and bassist Paul Sharpe, on Friday, November 9 – 7:00 PM at Studio Theatre in Thompson Hall on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. This will be part of the University’s Arts Now, in cooperation with Music@NC State and the PMC Lecture series.

The composer comments on his work--named for one of the early Facebook applications involving an electronic 'hello' --that “Poke,  a 'bagatelle on anti-social media' is scored for cello and double bass, with a running (spoken) dialogue between the two musicians as they play, an argument taking place across various social media. Over the course of the piece, the two "text", "friend" and "like" one another with increasing fury, as their virtual exchanges complete obliterate their real lives in a comic turn on the dark underbelly of our online politesse.”

Tickets for the November 9 performance are $10 general public | $5 for NC State students | $8 for senior citizens; faculty/staff. For more information, call 919-515-2981 or visit this link.

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Featuring Cleveland School of the Arts ensembles

R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir
Intermediate Concert Choir
William B. Woods, director
CSA Alumni Choir
Angelo D. Johnson, director
CSA Chamber Orchestra
Dianna Richardson, director

Joplin Selections from Treemonisha

Frederick Tillis -  In the Spirit and the Flesh

Monday, Feb. 18, 7:30pm:

20>>21

20>>21

Program:

Lewis Nielson: Opera Amoris
Elizabeth Bell: Millennium
Lawrence Dillon: What Happened
Phillip Rhodes: Following Picasso
Christopher Shultis: Songs of Love and Longing
Peter Westergaard: Palindrome

Ensemble:

Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie – soprano
Itay Lantner – flute
Alicia Lee – clarinet
Francesca Anderegg - violin
Claudia Schaer – violin
Erin Wight – viola
Brian Snow – cello
Yael Manor – piano

With special guests: Sara Perez, soprano; Laura Cocks, flute; Dustin Chung, clarinet; and Sean Dowgray, percussion

20>>21 is passionate for sharing new music with new audiences and collaborates with today's emerging composers to curate deep concert experiences. The ensemble's successful inaugural season of 2011-12 at the Gershwin Hotel in downtown Manhattan included a world premiere performance of a commissioned work by each featured composer, including Angélica Negrón, Gilad Cohen, Clint Needham, and Aleksandra Vrebalov.

Tuesday, Feb. 19,  7:30pm

Lunatics at Large:

Program:

Richard Brooks: Circular Motions
Richard Cameron-Wolfe: Labyrinths
Eleanor Cory: Things Are
Brian Fennelly: Sukhi!
Tom Flaherty: Scenes from Sarajevo
Jan Gilbert: The Indigo Rooftop of the Night
Louis Karchin: Rhapsody

Ensemble:

Hannah Fuerst – soprano
Laura Falzon – flute
Ben Ringer – clarinet
Arthur Moeller – violin
Jen Herman – viola
Michael Haas – cello
Steve Beck – piano

special guests Manon Hutton De-Wys, piano, and Miranda Cuckson, violin

Lunatics at Large was formed in 2007 to explore the timbral possibilities of chamber music repertoire from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It is a mixed ensemble combining voice, strings, winds and piano. In thematic concerts, the group juxtaposes standard repertoire and chamber pieces from established composers of the 20th century with more recent works.

ACA is thrilled to be collaborating with the amazing ensembles 20>>21 and Lunatics at Large for this year's Composers Now! festival. For more information and tickets, contact the box office 212-864-5400 or http://symphonyspace.org.

Kicking off the fourth annual month-long citywideComposers Now Festival on February 2, 2013 (under the leadership of composer Tania León) is Symphony Space's genre-busting Music-of-Now marathon, curated by Symphony Space Artistic Director, composer Laura Kaminsky, and hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight. From electronic experimentation to post-minimalism, to spectralist sonorities to Latin jazz, the marathon brings the broadest range of new music by today's emerging and established composers and composer-performers to the stage.

Ensemble MeitarROSS BAUER'S Heartstrings (MEITAREY HA LEV) for flute and string trio, will be premiered by the Meitar Ensemble and their wonderful flutist, Roy Amotz (for whom it was written) on Tuesday, October 23rd -- the opening concert of the contemporary music series at the Tel Aviv Academy.

Thurs. Oct. 25, the Hartford Composers Concert Series, featuring the music of Robert Carl and Arthur Hernandez at Centinel Hill Hall, Capital Community College, 950 Main Street, Hartford,  CT.   Robert Carl works to be performed include:  Garland for electric cello and video; River’s  Bend  for two  flutes; and Wind Quintet  No. 2,  “Birds  of  Guandu”. 

Nazareth OrchestraThe Nazareth Symphony Orchestra  in Rochester, NY, will perform on November 9th at 7:30 pm in a program inspired by Shakespeare and the blues. A rare but witty solo turn for the tuba, with Professor Jeremy Stone and Walter Mourant's Blue Haze for clarinet and strings with Professor Marcy Bacon, as well as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Blue Haze, composed in 1954 by Walter Mourant, has been recorded by Reginald Kell and re-released on CD by Deutsche Grammophon in 2005.