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Murmurations for clarinet and wind orchestra by Edward Smaldone will receive its world premiere performance by the Idaho Civic Symphony, Nell Flanders, conductor, and featuring clarinet soloist Shandra Hellman. "Meet Me in New York" event also features music by Leonard Bernstein and Stravinsky. At Jensen Concert Hall in Pocatello, Idaho.

Celebration of Modernism - New York Composers Circle
Wednesday, May 18 @ 7:00 PM

A Celebration of Contemporary Music Masters featuring the music of Raoul Pleskow, John Eaton, as well as David Mecionis, Tamara Cashour, and Roger Blanc, with performances by Christopher Oldfather, Esther Lamneck, and Rolf Schulte.

New York Composers Circle will present a celebration of contemporary music with Masters
of Modernism concert on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:00 PM at Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church
Around the Corner), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan.

The program will feature violinist Rolf Schulte, who will perform solo works by 20th -century masters Stefan
Wolpe (Second Piece for Violin Alone) and Donald Martino (Fantasy-Variations) and will be joined by pianist
Christopher Oldfather for Wolpe-disciple Raoul Pleskows Contrasts for Violin and Piano. John Eaton's Tocotnwill be performed mezzo-soprano Jessica Boweres and guitarist Oren Fader. Performers will also include Lois Martin, viola, Linda Wetherill, flute and Esther Lamneck, clarinet.

Tickets for the May 18 concert are $20, available at this link, or at the door. Seniors are $15 and students are free.

REVERB II
Tito Muoz, conductor
Daniel Bernard Roumain, curator
Friday, April 8, 2022 7:30PM
Tickets $10

PROGRAM:
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Klap Ur Handz
Fernanda Aoki Navarro: Glottogony
Allison Loggins-Hull: The Inheritors Overture
Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegia Andina
Jody Rockmaker: A Desert Walk At Sunset
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Voodoo Violin Concerto

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST
1875 N CENTRAL AVE
PHOENIX, AZ 85004

VOICES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
A Tapestry of sound emerging from centuries of the Black Experience

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ART SONG COLORADO
Free and open to the public - Registration required

FEATURING
Stephanie Ann Ball, soprano
GeDeane Graham, mezzo-soprano
and Marcus King, baritone

This performance is presented in honor of Peggy Shivers. With music by H. Leslie Adams, including the orchestral arrangements of Nightsongs and Dunbar Songs, as well as music by George Walker, Undine Smith Moore, Jessie Montgomery, and much more.

In this concert, the Folger Consort traces the origins of Viennas history as an epicenter of musical activity with music from the earliest Viennese School the assembly of composers at the court of Emperor Maximilian I around the year 1500. The program celebrates one of Maximilian's brightest stars, the composer Ludwig Senfl. Although separated by centuries, connections between Senfl and later Viennese composers abound, as in the continuation of thetenorlied songwriting tradition by Franz Schubert, shared text settings by Johannes Brahms, and in the sparkling contrapuntal music of Anton Webern, who of all the later composers examined his Viennese musical heritage back to the 1500s most closely. These later Viennese works are performed in new arrangements for the Consorts early instruments by composer David Froom, and the concert will also include the world premiere of Frooms setting of "Lament for the City" with text by the poet Sue Standing.With Tenor voice (Mark Bleeke), Recorder (Alto/Tenor), Tenor Lute, 2 Bass Viols, And Dulcian.

Additional performances will be held Saturday March 5th, and Sunday, March 6th.

Vally Weigl was a pianist, composer and music therapist.She is the sister of Kthe Leichter, a Viennese women's rights activist.Vally Weigl was also the wife of Karl Weigl, an Austrian composer.After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, she had to flee Vienna with her family and built a new life for herself in New York.With this program, Ensemble Ultreia brings the music of Vally Weigl back to Vienna and presents it in sound and vision.

Natalie Weinberg Soprano
Hannah Eisendle Conductor
Ensemble Ultreia
Melanie Hollaus Film (~60 min)
Damaris Richerts Arrangements

DC-based music theatre company INSERIES.org strives to champion new music and marginalized voices. Inseries Artist Fellow, soprano Melissa Wimbish will be presented in recital February 27th at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington DC.

Music by Florence Price, Gilda Lyons, Tom Cipullo, andH. Leslie Adams, will be woven into a recital program that examines the life and legacy of Josephine Baker.

The Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival is a performing arts festival that presents work that impacts our society, culture, and world by informing, inspiring, educating, and entertaining. INTERSECTIONS is about presenting excellent art that inspires a connected community, engages artists and audiences alike, and creates a vibrant neighborhood, city, and world.

The Cassatt Quartet - Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower, violins; Rosemary Nelis, viola; and Gwen Krosnick, cello - will play, among other works, MODES for string quartet by Dorothy Rudd Moore on Saturday 11/5 in Briarcliff Manor, NY. Additional performances are planned for New York City and other touring dates/locations.

Hailed for its mighty rapport and relentless commitment, the Cassatt String Quartet has performed to critical acclaim across the world since its founding in 1985, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, the Kennedy Center, Thtre des Champs-lyses, Centro National de las Artes, Maeda Hall, and Beijings Central Conservatory. The groups discography includes over forty recordings, spanning the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels including three discs that have been named by Alex Ross to his 10 Best Classical Recordings feature in The New Yorker Magazine.

The Cassatt Quartets upcoming projects include major performances and recordings of works by Daniel S. Godfrey, Tania Len, and Shirish Korde; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area; and appearances at Music Mountain, Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Jordan Hall.

The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.

She is a dancer for SATB choir and piano will be presented by Tulane University at Dixon Hall on May 3rd. It is part of a comprehensive program of 19th C. songs with the Tulane-Newcomb choir, focused on women's history and suffrage. In July, Barbara's work Fantasy on Jazz will be recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow, with Samuel Marques as soloist.

A joint concert presentation from Kids 4 Harmony and Community Intergenerational Action Orchestra (CIAO) will include music by Vivaldi, Corelli, and an arrangement for string orchestra of Nobilis humilis magnus martir, a hymn to St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, written for CIAO by Gary Philo, among othe works.St. John's Epsicopal Church, Williamstown, MA.

The CIAO project includes classical repertoire from the 16th-19th centuries, ethnic music, and popular "sing-along" songs. In addition, the group performs new music written expressly for them that use avant-garde musical languages.

New York Composers Circle will premiere two pieces by David Mecionis April 21st and May 18th. Joining him on the latter will be an additional ACA premiere by Raoul Pleskow, and a performance of John Eaton's music. Tickets are available for the April concert here, and tickets for the May concert can be found on NYCC's website when available.

NYCC Presents: Concerts of New Music
April 21st & May 18th, 2022
7:00 p.m. ET
The Church of the Transfiguration: 1 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016

This Sunday, David Liptak premieres his Ballet "Pierrot in America" as part of"Tripping the Light Fantastic'' with Cordancia Chamber Orchestra and BIODANCE dance company, Rachel Lauber conducting. "Pierrot in America" is an orchestral migrant's tale that follows the mythical character, Pierrot, on his migration adventure from Europe to America in the early 20th century.

Sunday, March 6th, at 4:30 pm
Kodak Hall in the Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY

The concert is part of the year-long Eastman Centennial Celebration, and admission is free.

Concert Program:

Dsir-mile Inghelbrecht: "Metamorphose d'Eve"
David Liptak: "Pierrot in America" (premiere performance)
Jacques Ibert: Divertissement

The concert will also be presented as a live stream via the Eastman School of Music website:https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

A performance of Twelve Poems for violin and piano by composerRobert Gibson, as recorded by the 21st Century Consort, was broadcast on Front Row Washington on WETA radio on Monday, Jan. 31 at 9 PM EST.

Join the 21st Century Consort, Christopher Kendall, music director - at the Hirshhorn Museums Ring Auditorium - Oct. 1 featuring the event "Threnody" with music by women composers inspired by the Hirshhorn Museums exhibition of the same name featuring work from the collection by women artists, and a special work by David Froom (1951-2022).

Tatev Amiryan

Tristesse

Susan Kander

And Then Not

Elena Ruehr

Klein Suite

David Froom

Lamentations for the City

Stacey Garrop

Pieces of Sanity

Alexandra Gardner

The Way of Ideas

Tansy Davies

Dark Ground

Juri Seo

Respiri

Doors open at 3:30, all persons arriving before the 4:00 Pre-Concert Discussion will be guaranteed seating. Based on past concerts you will likely be able to get seats until the concert begins at 5:00.

Collage New Music will feature Fantasy Dances by David Froom at their concert October 16th, 8PM at MIT's Killian Hall. 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142.

Black History Month Celebration, I, Too, Sing America will be broadcaston WBNS-10-TV, February 27th at 7 P.M.
Recently recorded from The Lincoln Theatre in Colubmus, OH,this program features music of H. Leslie Adams and others,performed by Ohio-based artistsDione Parker Bennett, soprano, and Ed Bak, piano. Joining the performance are local community members and students. Opera Project Columbus is happy to bring this performance and these pieces to a wider audience.

Feb. 27, 2021 Broadcast was aired at 7:00 pm on Channel 10, WBNS (CBS), Columbus, OH
A recording on youtube is available here.

The program will include:
Sence You Went Away from Nightsongs by H. Leslie Adams
Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson.
Copyright 1976 H. Leslie Adams (BMI) All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy of American Composers Edition (BMI)

(Photo ofDione Parker Bennett, Soprano)

Daveda Karanas, mezzo-soprano
Karla Hamelin, cello
Michael Ippolito, piano

September 14, 2021 - 6PM
Recital Hall - Performing Arts Center
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

Full program:
Jules Massanet - lgie (1875)
Dorothy Rudd Moore - From the Dark Tower (1972)
(intermission)
Michael Ippolito - The Privilege of Witnessing the Last Breath (2020)
Walter Rabl - Four Songs, op. 5 (1899)

Ticket info here

August 21 at 2:00 PM

Aspen Music Festival and School 2021
Chamber Music | $45
Harris Concert Hall

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
Timothy Weiss conductor

John D. Rojak- bass trombone
Jacob Nissly - percussion
Austin Cantrell- percussion
Nancy Allen- harp

Program:

GEORGE LEWIS:
Mnemosis

WILSON:
A City Called Heaven

STEVEN CHRISTOPHER SACCO:
Quartet for BassTrombone, Vibraphone, Marimba, and Harp (World Premiere)