The Long Island Composers Alliance will feature works by Dana Richardson and Jay Anthony Gach at their 5/11 concert featuring the Ever Trio, as well as music by Margaret Collins, Laurence Dresner, and Catherine Neville.

Free admission, reception to follow.

South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation
228 S Ocean Ave
Freeport, NY 11520

UMD College of Arts and Humanities | School of Music

Saturday, May 4, 2024 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall

PROGRAM

Robert Gibson: Through the Ear of a Raindrop for Orchestra
Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau
Debussy: La Mer, trois equisses symphoniques

The UMD Symphony Orchestra's season finale concert features Robert Gibson's Through the Ear of a Raindrop, Bedrich Smetana's The Moldau, and Claude Debussy's La Mer. Each piece explores a different aspect of water, evoking its beauty, power and mystery.

Originally composed for The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's inaugural season, Through the Ear of a Raindrop was premiered by the UMD Symphony Orchestra in 2002. It returns to Dekelboum this season in honor of Professor Robert Gibson's retirement. Gibson has been a faculty member since 1980 and served as the School of Music's director for many years.

Richard Cameron-Wolfe’s Passionate Geometries – April 20

On Saturday, April 20 at 8:00PM in the Thalia/Symphony Space, the artist collective Nomads NYC presents Passionate Geometries, a 54-year retrospective concert of the creative work of composer Richard Cameron-Wolfe, featuring eight of his works – three premieres and five first stagings. The evening offers a provocative interplay of art-forms: visual art [by Kevin Teare – ***arrive by 7:30 to see projections from his Sketchbook], chamber music, drama, opera, dance, and poetry/literature.

On the program are four micro-operas - MeMarie (1970), Heretic, A Sound-Shroud for Bill Knott, and Passionate Geometries; a dance allegory – Lilith; three chamber works – Iris (2024), Time Refracted, and the 2023 guitar sextet Arcturus. The event features fourteen outstanding New York City contemporary performing artists plus special guests from New Zealand, Russia/Kazakhstan, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Tickets: $20.00
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-passionate-geometries

[Photo: Richard Cameron-Wolfe in Bloomington, Indiana, 1970]

First Place winner in Solo Flute competition of the National Flute Association is Fasting Heart, by Judith Shatin, a new work released in the ACA catalog this year. Finalists included 17 Solos for the Native American Flute, Edited by James Pellerite.  Honorable Mention for works for Flute and Piano went to Kermit Moore's Music for Flute and Piano (Sonata in Two Movements) and Judith Shatin's Gabriel's Wing. Congratulations to Judith Shatin, Henry Gale, the ACA team, and our friends at Alry Publications and also Theodore Presser Music.

The winning scores may be performed at this year's NFA conference in San Antonio, and also displayed in the Exhibit Hall before they reach their final destination at the NFA Lending Library at the University of Arizona.

Livestream of the premiere first movement of H. Leslie Adams Sonata for Horn and Piano, on Tuesday, April 9th at 3pm (Colorado Springs). 5pm Eastern time. Link here  With Sarah Ford, Horn; and Susan Grace, piano. 

ETHEL & Friends Series at The Met

Friday, April 5 at 6 - 8:30 PM
Saturday, April 6 at 6 - 8:30 PM

The Met Fifth Avenue
Great Hall Balcony Cafe, Floor 2
1000 5th Avenue
New York, NY

PROGRAM
ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall Balcony Cafe on the 2nd Floor, by the resident ensemble, ETHEL. “Date Night” Artists perform 3 sets on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 - 8:30 PM.

On April 5th and April 6th, members of The Harlem Chamber Players will perform music by William Grant Still, Florence Price, Frederick Tillis, Tania León, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Duke Ellington, and more.

ARTISTS
Ashley Horne, violin
Claire Chan, violin
William Frampton, viola
Wayne Smith, cello

TICKETS
Free with admission to The Met Museum at Fifth Avenue.

STRUCTURAL PERMUTATIONS
A Concert of New Music
Wednesday, March 13 @ 7:00 PM
Church of the Transfiguration 
"Little Church Around the Corner"
1 East 29th Street, New York, New York