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Joel Eric Suben's Two Songs on Poems of Beth Levin will be performed in the "Encore" concert of Bowers Fader Duo's Annual New American Art Song Concert (first performed in Oct. 2022).

The Seventh Annual New American Art Song Encore Concert
Bowers Fader Duo: Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano, Oren Fader, guitar
Saturday, February 4th, 2023 at 3:00pm EST
Scholes Street Studio 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Admission: $20/$10, cash only at the door

Program:

Two Songs on Poems by Beth Levin - Joel Eric Suben
River Songs - Jeffrey Earl Young
i carry your heart - Tim Mukherjee
From Song of Songs - David Glaser
Turn Back? - Gene Pritsker
Nirgendland (Nowhereland) - Victoria Bond

Darling Early Morning by Gary Philo and Mirage d'espritRichard Cameron-Wolfe will be performed as part of The Village Trip GuitarFest on Saturday, September 10th. Performed by Oren Fader & Dan Lippel on Philo's work who are joined by Jay Sorce and Matt Slotkin for Cameron-Wolfe's, both works can be heard during the concert titled "Global Greenwich Village" on the series, and even more guitar ensemble music is showcased in the festival at 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm concerts.

Sep. 10th, 6:00 pm
St. John's in the Village
Tickets $15-$20
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-village-trip-guitarfest-ahlets-go-back-to-the-village/

Four Miniatures by Richard Brooks has just been released on a new album from Cambria Music titled "Windows." The album features duos by guitarist Bill Zito and violist Louise Schulman, who commissioned Brooks' work. Four Miniaturesappears alongside a handful of other new works as well as arrangements of classic duos. Hear the album here on Apple Music and here on Spotify.

On Saturday, Oct. 15 at 10AM in Winifred Smith Hall at UC Irvine, we will honor and remember the great composer Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940-2022) with a performance of From the Dark Tower and more. Conference registration for the 25th anniversary of the African American Art Song Alliance Conference is free and the programs from Oct. 13-16 include Music of the Diaspora, Music of Social Justice, The Harlem Renaissance, and Black Women Composers, among other topics.

The African American Art Song Alliance is one of the nation's leading advocacy organizations, representing Black composers of Western classical art song. In an effort to maintain accessibility to everyone, there is no registration fee and usually no concert tickets. Come be part of this community of like-minded supporters!

Music by Thomas L. Read will be featured on the season opening program of the Convergence Ensemble, which will take place at the historic St. Mary's Church in Dorchester, MA.The ensemble will perform works for string trio and guitar as well as guitar and string duos, all performed by guitaristAaron Larget-Caplan, violistMichelle LaCourse,violinistHeidi Braun-Hilland cellistHyun-Ji Kwon.Composers featured alongside T.L. will beBeethoven,John Cage, and Libby Larsen.

Date:Sunday, November 20, 2022
Time:4:00 pm
Address:St. Mary's Church
14 Cushing Ave
Boston, MA, 02125
Transportation:8 minute walk from Uphams Corner Commuter Rail Stop

This fall, New York City will see 2 premieres of music by Lewis Nielson. The first will take place Oct. 28th on a concert at the Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn titled "A Pin Drops", premieringPastorale para los pobres de la tierra with the International Contemporary Ensemble featuringAlice Teyssier and the Rhyhtm Method quartet. The second will be on Nov. 9th at the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall in Hell's Kitchen titled "Terrain", premieringSiesta Negrawith the TAK ensemble.

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International Contemporary Ensemble
Oct. 28th 7:30 p.m. EST
Target Margin Theater

TAK Ensemble
Nov. 9th 8:00 p.m. EST
Cary Hall, DiMenna Center

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 7:30pm

Calling all movie buffs! Relive movies from the past and visit an ancient heritage site as the Dallas Winds combine selections from unforgettable scores by iconic Hollywood composers and dramatic big-screen imagery. With Jerry Junkin, Conductor

The Magnificent Seven Elmer Bernstein
Adagio and Phrygia from Spartacus Aram Khachaturian
On Her Majestys Secret Service John Barry
Echoes of the Past Michael Udow
Casablanca Suite Max Steiner

Udow's Echoes of the Past uses photographic images from the Mesa Verde, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Colorado. It was inhabited by Ancestral Puebloan peoples dating back to 7500 BC. By 1285 due to severe and prolonged droughts, the cliff dwellings were abandoned. Looking closely at scorched trees burnt from centuries of forest fires, one might notice images of animals, human forms, Native American Kachinas, and the remains of bewitchingly shaped trees.

Music of Dana Richardson

Piano Sonata No. 5, with Craig Ketter, piano
Chiaroscuro for organ with Claudia Dumschat, organ

Church of the Transfiguration
1 East 29 th Street, east of 5th Ave. Manhattan

5:00pm Sunday, Oct. 23rd

Wine and Cheese Reception
Tickets $40 at door (cash)

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Award- winning organist, music director and conductor, Dr. Claudia Dumschat is the Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of the Transfiguration (The Little Church Around the Corner), a national landmark in the heart of New York City with a rich liturgical and musical tradition. There she administers and conducts the professional Choir of Men and Boys (the oldest such choir in the country); the Girls Choir; Cherub Choir; and Camerata.

Critically acclaimed for transporting the listeners to extraordinary heights and into a world beyond time and space, pianist Craig Ketter is known for playing with powerhouse sonority combined with long-lined, dulcet lyricism. Mr. Ketter has performed as soloist with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Mobile Symphony, the South Orange Symphony, the Raleigh Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, the Durham Symphony, the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra, and the American Festival for the Arts Orchestra.

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Michael Dellaira's new opera The Leopard, as performed and recorded recently at the Frost School of Music, will be released soon on Naxos. The Score Magazine of the Frost School features an article on the opera, and the cover features The Leopards Yaqi Yang and Minghao Liu as Angelica and Tancredi.

The Fourth Wall, an evening of art song by African-American composers, features the remarkable voices of soprano Tiffany Bostic-Brown and baritone Terrance Brown (pictured) accompanied by Gregory Vajda and the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra. The sensitive, beautifully scored selections by Robert Owens and H. Leslie Adams include settings of poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes narrated by Gabrielle Fuqua.

David Liptak'sThe New England Primerwill haveitspremiere performance on Wednesday, April27th, at 7:30 pm in the Eastman School of Music's Kodak Hall in Rochester, New York. The performance features soprano Tony Arnold and baritone William Sharp with the Eastman Philharmonia led by Neil Varon.

The concert will also be shown on Eastman'sLIVEstreambeginning about 15 minutes before the 7:30 Eastman Philharmonia concert on 4/27.

Honored recognition for ACA flute music: The NFA Newly Published Music Competition Winners for 2022:

Winner of Solo Flute category:
Kok: Twelve Contemporary Works for flute

Honorable Mention in Flute with Electronics:
Circle of Echolocation by Darleen Mitchell

Finalists in Solo Flute composition:

Derelict by Lee Gannon
Pages from my Diary by Michael Seyfrit

Castle of our Skins is honored to team up with award-winning researcher, internationally recognized concert pianist, and renowned public speaker Dr. Samantha Ege for this special lecture-performance.

Undine Smith Moore - Soweto for piano trio
Margaret Bonds - Spiritual Suite for solo piano
Florence Price - Fantasie Negre No. 2 & 1 for solo piano
Frederick Tillis - Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 for string quartet

BuildingPerry and Marty Granoff Music Center

CampusMedford/Somerville Campus

PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE
May 18, 2022, Lecture 6:00pm; 7:00pm concert @ Tufts University Distler Hall

Co-Sponsored by Tufts University

Join Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra in a community concert entitled Honoring Black Composers. The program showcases music by African American Classical composers, past and present, including some Ohio natives! Composers include Dolores White, H. Leslie Adams, Brian Raphael Nabors, William Grant Still, Allison Loggins-Hull, and more. This 1-hour concert will be presented at Karamu House, which is recognized as the oldest, producing African American theatre in the nation. Following the performance, will be a talk back discussion and dialogue with musicians and composers.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM Karamu House 2355 East 89th St. Cleveland, OH 44106

Friday, May 27, 2022 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Reinberger Chamber Hall, Severance Music Center 11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44106
This 30-minute prelude concert version of Honoring Black Composers will be presented in Reinberger Chamber Hall in advance of the evening concert program.

Participating TCO musicians in Honoring Black Composers: Charles Bernard, Lisa Boyko, Kathleen Collins, Bryan Dumm, Elayna Duitman, Yun-Ting Lee, Sonja Molloy, Eliesha Nelson, Frank Rosenwein, Emma Shook*, Joshua Smith, Isabel Trautwein*, Carolyn Gadiel Warner. *artistic leads

PAS is proud to announce its Hall of Fame Class of 2022: Peter Erskine, Roland Kohloff, Michael Udow, Bernard Woma, and Nancy Zeltsman. Each has made significant contributions to the field and will be celebrated at PASIC 2022.

The Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame was established in 1972 to recognize the contributions of the most highly regarded leaders in percussion performance, education, research, scholarship, administration, composition and the industry.

DONALD M. WILSON's HEXAGON for piano and computer-generated sounds (1992) with Marilyn Shrude, pianist, will be released July 22nd on HearNow and on standard streaming services soon thereafter. Hexagon features pianist MARILYN SHRUDE in a recently updated recording by sound engineer Mark Bunce. The score and audio playback files including Max/MSP are available from ACA in print and PDF format (with audio download link). This is a substantial piece in 6 movements at ca. 24' in total.

Originally intended as a six-movement work for either solo piano or piano and tape, HEXAGON was first composed in 1977 but then revised in 1990. Just the fifth movement remains for solo piano.

The composer used interactive software "M" to assist in sketching and realizing some of the movements. Earlier that same year the Nocturne movement for solo piano was completed and premiered by composer/pianist Marilyn Shrude at the 11th Annual New Music & Art Festival at BGSU.

On Friday, July 22, the Chesapeake Orchestra will be honoring the memory of composer David Froom with a program featuring his music along with works by Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams. The performance is part of the annual River Concert Series, the wonderful summer series at St. Mary's College of Maryland under the direction of conductor Jeffrey Silberschlag. The concert starts at 7pm; admission and parking are free. Scheduled works include Down to a Sunless Sea for strings, and Serenade for Trumpet and Strings.

On July 22nd, New Focus Recordings plans to release an album of chamber music from the American Wild Ensemble including David Liptak's Two Nocturnes. The intrepid American Wild Ensemble was formed around a project to perform new works in national parks in the US, and has continued to create exciting events outdoors in unconventional spaces, from caves to mountaintops. Their recording,Duos and Trios, features four works for combinations of cello, clarinet, and flute by Aaron Travers, David Liptak, Margaret Brouwer, and David Clay Mettens that reflect the ensembles penchant for deriving inspiration from the natural world.

https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/american-wild-ensemble-duos-and-trios/