NYCC | In The Loop | Feb 27, 2010

Our February Salon meets today, February 27th at 2:30 p.m. (until 5:30 p.m.) at the rehearsal studio of Symphony Space 95th street and Broadway. As reminder, JOHN DE CLEF PIÑEIRO offers the following hints on finding the right room: (1) if the Symphony Space box office is open, you can enter the Symphony Space lobby, and ask the guard there how to get to the rehearsal studio from the lobby, or (2) you can enter the first glass door down from the south west corner of Broadway and 95th street (where Symphony Space is located), which will take you to the steel stairs leading down from the street level to the actual ticket entrance (not the box office) to the Thalia's hall. On a wall to the left of the entrance, you will see a yellow sign that says STUDIO, and just follow the signs from there.

All are invited; hope to see you in our new time and space!

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ROGER BLANC is performing an original piece for electric guitar and harp tomorrow, Sunday, February 28 at 1:00 PM at Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, NYC (between 1st and 2nd Avenues) as part of the "Composer's Voice" concert series (http://www.janhus.org/, http://www.voxnovus.com/). Also on the concert is new music by Douglas DaSilva, H. David Korenchendler, Liduino Pitombeira, Rafael dos Santos, Robert Voisey, and Kai Watanabe. Performers include Amy Berger, harp; Alex Stein, tenor sax; Roger Blanc and Kai Watanabe on guitar, and the Duo Barrenechea. 

Transportation - take the 6 train to 77th and Lexington, walk south and east. Please view the attachment for further details, and I hope to see you there!

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MARTIN HALPERN's two new one-act chamber operas will receive world premiere productions Thursday, March 4; Friday, March 5; and Saturday, March 6. The starting time for each performance is 8 PM. The two projects are The Enchanted Stone, freely based on W.B. Yeats's early play "The Pot of Broth" and The Hour Glass, freely based on images from Yeats's early play of the same name. The venue is St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street. Performed by JIM TRAINOR, baritone, YVONNE  BILL, soprano, and EARL BUYS, pianist. All three were featured in the October, 2009 production of Halpern's operas Purgatory and The Death of Oedipus at St. Gregory's Church, which reviewer Joel Benjamin called "an intensely satisfying evening of music and drama." Tickets:  $20; $10 for students and via TDF. Reservations: Online at www.theatermania.com or by telephone at 212-352-3101.

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Award-winning composer DEBRA KAYE will be featured on Manhattan Neighbor Network on Monday, March 8th, 8:30 pm on the show Minding Your Business, hosted by June Middleton. The Time Warner Channel is 57. The show also airs on RCN Ch 84, Verizon FIOS Ch 35, or Ch 69 without a cable box. If that's not handy, you can also view the show as a live stream on the internet at:  http://www.mnn.org (Select Ch 57/84/35 under "Watch MNN Live"). Debra's performing artists are Amy Kimball and Lynn Bechtold, violin; Whitney La Grange, viola; Frank Wagner, double bass; and Javier Oviedo, saxophone. Debra's music has been heard at many venues including Carnegie Hall, and Steinway Hall. This show features a preview of her most recent work, CHANGING FORMS.

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Speaking of DEBRA KAYE, she will present a concert of her recent music in a few weeks: Music of the Beehive will include the premiere of Changing Forms in its sextet version (classical string quartet, jazz bass & tenor sax). The concert will be I hope you can join us on Tuesday, March 16th, 8pm, at Saint Peter's Church at Citigroup. Debra states this will be a short, intermission-less concert; there will be a reception afterwards. The concert will also be given at the historic Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY, on Sunday, March 14th, 4pm. THE BEEHIVE is Lynn Bechtold and Amy Kimball, violin; Whitney La Grange, viola; Arthur Cook, cello; Frank Wagner, double bass; Javier Oviedo, saxophone; Marcia Eckert, piano; William Youmans, voice. For reservations call:  212-932-1376. Suggested Donation: $10.

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Our old friend SEAN HICKEY pointed me in the direction of InstantEncore.com, a social media website created specifically for classical music. It's another great resource for seeing what's going on in the music world today. Check it out!

NYCC | In The Loop | Feb 21, 2010

Our first NYCC CONCERT of the season is upon us! February 23, 2010 at Saint Peters Church at the Citigroup Center, 8pm. Suggested donation is $20.

When Time Is Over: Four Emily Dickinson Songs by Richard D. Russell; Sofia Dimitrova, soprano; Tamara Cashour, piano

Michael's Suite by Ezra Laderman; Michael Laderman, flute 

Vocalise by Cesar Vuksic; Sofia Dimitrova, soprano

Pollypiano, a Musical-Theatre Diorama by Tamara Cashour; Manhattan Saxophone Quartet: Dan Kochersberger, Wonki Lee, Jay Rattman, Jordan Smith; Tamara Cashour, piano

Three Nocturnes for Violin and Piano by Jacob E. Goodman; Stanichka Dimitrova, violin; Sookkyung Cho, piano

Three Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson by Martin Halpern; Dan Molkentin, tenor; Michael Laderman, flute, Cesar Vuksic, piano

Twister by Donald Hagar; Kevin Weng-Yew Mayner, double bass; Mia Elezovic, piano

The Players, four movements for violin and piano by Eugene W. McBride; Lori Miller, violin; Jim Abbott, piano

(The pieces by Mr. Goodman, Mr. Halpern, Mr. McBride, Mr. Vuksic, and Ms. Cashour are all world premieres.)

There will be a reception after the concert! Please come, join us, and say hello! 

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A reminder about the scheduling change regarding our Sunday Salons! Our next meeting will be on a Saturday (not Sunday) and in a new location…Mark your calendars: Saturday, February 27th at 2:30 p.m. (until 5:30 p.m.) at the rehearsal studio of Symphony Space 95th street and Broadway. 

JOHN DE CLEF PIÑEIRO offers the following hints on finding the right room: (1) if the Symphony Space box office is open (and I presume that it would be), you can enter the Symphony Space lobby, and ask the guard there how to get to the rehearsal studio from the lobby, or (2) you can enter the first glass door down from the south west corner of Broadway and 95th street (where Symphony Space is located), which will take you to the steel stairs leading down from the street level to the actual ticket entrance (not the box office) to the Thalia's hall. On a wall to the left of the entrance, you will see a yellow sign that says STUDIO, and just follow the signs from there.

All are invited; hope to see you in our new time and space!

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If you are in Boston this week, take note: On Thursday, February 25, Charles Peltz will lead the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble in the premiere of BRIAN FENNELLY's The Other Side of Time, written for the ensemble last year. The approximately 13-minute single-movement piece is scored for 30 woodwind, brass, and percussion players. The free concert will be at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, and will also include music by Christian Wolf, David Noon, and Richard Strauss. The full score with program notes is posted on Brian's American Music Center webpage: 

https://www.amc.net/files/13991/THE%20OTHER%20SIDE%20OF%20TIME%20final%20score.1.29.10%20pdf1.pdf

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RICHARD BROOKS's Sonata for Solo Guitar will be premiered March 5 at Adelphi University (8 pm) by William Zito to whom it is dedicated.

February 23 Concert Program

Here's an early look at the concert program for the New York Composers Circle's February 23 concert. The venue is Saint Peter's Church at the Citigroup Center, and the concert starts at 8pm. Suggested donation is $20.

NYCC | In the Loop | Feb 7, 2010

Our first NYCC CONCERT of the season is almost upon us! February 23, 2010 at Saint Peters Church at the Citigroup Center, 8pm. The concert features new music by Tamara Cashour, Jacob E. Goodman, Don Hagar, Martin Halpern, Ezra Laderman, Eugene McBride, Richard Russell, and Cesar Vuksic. A rich line up of performers includes the Manhattan Saxophone Quartet: Dan Kochersberger, Wonki Lee, Jay Rattman, Jordan Smith. Also: Sofia Dimitrova, soprano; Daniel Molkentin, tenor; Tamara Cashour, piano; Michael Laderman, flute; Stanichka Dimitrova, violin; Sookkyung Cho, piano; Cesar Vuksic, piano; Lori Miller, violin; Jim Abbott, piano. Suggested donation is $20, and you can sneak a peak at the program by going to nycomposerscircle.blogspot.com

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An important scheduling change regarding our Sunday Salons! Our next meeting will be on a Saturday and in a new location…Mark your calendars: Saturday, February 27th at 2:30 p.m. (until 5:30 p.m.) at the rehearsal studio of Symphony Space 95th street and Broadway. All are invited; hope to see you in our new time and space!

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JOHN EATON writes: "Please come to hear what some consider my most moving chamber work, Lettere, on Monday, Feb. 8th at 8PM in the Rose Studio, 10th floor of the Rose Building at Lincoln Center. It will be performed by Jennifer Roderer, the mezzo-soprano soloist with the Pocket Opera Players, and the American Modern Ensemble conducted by Robert Paterson. The instrumentation is flute, harp and string quartet, in addition to the mezzo-soprano.  It was written in memory of my father."

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MARTIN HALPERN 's two new one-act chamber operas will receive world premiere productions Thursday, March 4; Friday, March 5; and Saturday, March 6. The starting time for each performance is 8 PM. The two projects are The Enchanted Stone, freely based on W.B. Yeats's early play "The Pot of Broth" and The Hour Glass, freely based on images from Yeats's early play of the same name. The venue is St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street. Performed by JIM TRAINOR, baritone, YVONNE  BILL, soprano, and EARL BUYS, pianist. All three were featured in the October, 2009 production of Halpern's operas Purgatory and The Death of Oedipus at St. Gregory's Church, which reviewer Joel Benjamin called "an intensely satisfying evening of music and drama." Tickets:  $20; $10 for students and via TDF. Reservations: Online at www.theatermania.com or by telephone at 212-352-3101.

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