NYCC Honors Elliott Carter at Next Concert

Celebrating the centenary of honorary composer member Elliott Carter, the NYCC is proud to announce details of our next concert. Click the image for a larger view.

NYCC | In The Loop | Nov 15, 2008

Reminder: Our November Salon will be held tomorrow, Sunday November 16, from 2-5pm. The location is the Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, 400 West 43 on the second floor.

 

Two upcoming concerts will take place in the same venue, Saint Peter's at Lexington and 54th Street, a venue well known to the NYCC… read on!

 

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WILLIAM VOLLINGER's "Whaddaya Want for Christmas?" will be premiered by the Gregg Smith Singers on November 22 at 8PM at St. Peter's Church Lexington Ave. at 54 St. Other composers on the evening include Schutz, Debussy, Edmund Najera, Jack Beeson, Michael Cohen, Dorothy Hindmann and others.

 

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ANNA TONNA writes: "I will perform as part of the Albéniz Trio a concert of music dedicated to Isaac Albéniz in honor of the centenary of his death." This chamber music concert is billed as "Albéniz: The Ultimate Romantic" and will be held on Tuesday December 2, 2008 at St. Peter's Church at at Lexington Avenue and 54th Street. Tickets are $15, sold at the door.

 

The Albéniz Trio is comprised of pianist Alexander Wu, guitarist Francisco Roldán and mezzo soprano Anna Tonna. Special guest performer on the evening is double bass player Hilliard Greene. Comprised of solo piano, solo guitar, the rarely performed songs for voice and piano, as well as two world premiere arrangements for piano/guitar and piano/double bass of Albéniz's Tango in D and Puerta de Tierra, Albéniz: The Ultimate Romantic celebrates the centenary of the death of the Spanish composer, Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909).

 

In The Loop | November 8, 2008

Now we know we are deep into our 2008-09 season: Our first concert is just a few short weeks away! Just so you have it in your calendar: December 6 at 8 pm at the beautiful Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch College. We have a special guest ensemble, the Sylvan Winds, who will perform all the music on the evening's program. This program will include the music of the prolific, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning centenarian, and NYCC 2008-2009 Honorary Member, ELLIOTT CARTER (his 1948 work "Woodwind Quintet") along with:

MARGARET FAIRLIE-KENNEDY's Woodwind Quintet

DON HAGAR's Little Suite for woodwind quintet

FEDOR KABALIN's Divertimento for woodwind septet

EUGENE MARLOW's Playtime for woodwind quartet and piano

JOSEPH PEHRSON's Windjammer for woodwind quintet

CESAR VUKSIC's Dialogues for woodwind quintet and piano

The Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch College is located at 55 Lexington Avenue (between 24th and 25th Streets). Tickets are a $20 suggested donation, payable at the door

 

The November Sunday Salon will be held Sunday November 16 from 2-5pm at the Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, 400 West 43 on the second floor. All are invited.

 

DEBRA KAYE is offering for sale: Sibelius 5.2 (the latest version) for $225, complete with original packaging and manual.

Contact Debra Kaye at dkaye1000@aol.com

 

On Sunday November 16th at 4pm CESAR VUKSIC will perform a piano recital of Tangos at the Brooklyn Public Library. The Program includes compositions by Piazzolla, Salgan, Troilo, Cobian, Gardel and Belisario Perez. The concert is at 4pm ant the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture Central Library

1 Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. For more info, call 718.230.2100

 

NANCY GARNIEZ is presenting a lecture "Alberti Bass is Boring: True or False?" this Wednesday November 12, 2008 noon to 2 pm at Mannes College of Music's Goldmark Hall. All are welcome, particularly those who wonder why you have to play (or listen to) Alberti Bass. Mannes is at 150 West 85th St. and Goldmark Hall is on the third floor. For more info, email Nancy at nancygarniez@tonalrefraction.com

 

Program for Oct 19 Salaon

Sunday, October 19, 2008, 2:00 PM
Manhattan Plaza Ellington Room
400 West 43rd Street

Program

1. Discussion of Organizational Matters and Reports
John de Clef Piñeiro, NYCC Executive Director, will bring us up to
date on administrative matters. (Approx. 30 minutes)

2. Audition of Members' Works
Hubert Howe - "Timbre Study No. 7" for electronic sounds. Hubert will
give a 15-minute presentation illustrating the sounds used in the
piece and how he created them, followed by the playback of the 10-
minute piece. (Approx. 25 minutes)

Gene McBride - Prelude and Act 1, Scene 1 from his opera "On Burning
Ground." This recording features singers Demetra Adams, Beverly Myers,
Seth Gilman and Ricardo Rivera with a Sibelius orchestra. (Approx. 20
minutes)

Cesar Vuksic - "Vocalise" for unaccompanied soprano, Arlene Travis
performing. (Approx. 3 minutes)

Debra Kaye - "Chain Reaction" for Soprano and Piano. Arlene Travis
and Cesar Vuksic performing. (Approx. 4 minutes)

Christopher Montgomery - "Four Bagpipe Tunes" MIDI rendition.
(Approx. 7 minutes)

Roger Blanc - "Movement for String Quartet" (Approx. 8 minutes)

3. Conclusion and Refreshments

In The Loop | Oct 5, 2008

If you like your new music to be presented in a theatrical style, you'll love this edition of In The Loop! Lots of opera going on this month, read on:

 

MARTIN HALPERN is the resident composer of the Brooklyn Music School Playhouse, which will present the world premiere of his The Siege of Syracuse. Set in Athens, Greece, in 413 BC, the opera dramatizes the tragic fall of the once glorious Athenian empire as a result of disastrous policies which may call to mind American policies in Vietnam and Iraq. The cast includes actual historical figures like the hawkish Cleophon, head of the Athenian council, and his antagonist, the philosopher Socrates, as well as fictional characters including a four-person chorus representing the city's populace.

 

The Brooklyn Music School Playhouse is at 126 St. Felix Street, around the corner from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and from the Atlantic Avenue stop of the 2, 3, 4, 5, R and Q trains and the Long Island Railroad. There is also parking at the lot across from BAM.

 

The dates are:

Friday, October 31 at 8 PM

Saturday, November 1 at 8 PM

Sunday, November 2 at 4 PM

Tickets $20; student tickets $10

Buy tickets online at http://www.brooklynmusicschool.org

or make reservations by calling 718-638-5660, Ext. 10

 

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Soprano MELISSA FOGARTY is involved in several  projects throughout October. First, she is participating in the American Opera Projects "Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes," a presentation of new opera scenes from emerging composers. Melissa will be playing the English Teacher in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" by Gregory Spears, libretto by Kathryn Walat.

Fri Oct 3 & Sat Oct 4, 8 PM, South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St., Brooklyn NY

For tickets and more information, visit the American Opera Projects.

 

She is also in Three, Two, One- BANG! Composers Collaborative Serial Underground

A reading of an opera by Justine F. Chen, which was commissioned by Long Leaf Opera for their youth program. It is a clever re-telling of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Monday, Oct 13, 8:30 PM, The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Friday, Oct 24, Time TBA, The Zipper Factory, 336 W. 37th Street, NYC

 

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PETER DIZOZZA's new musical mystery play Paradise Found, with 9 songs and full piano score, presented in conjunction with Milton's 400th Birthday Art Exhibition at The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, 135 Broadway at Bedford  Avenue.  October 3, 4, 10 and 11.  Admission $15; more info at (718) 486-7372  and www.wahcenter.net/

 

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Mezzo ANNA TONNA is in the cast of the opera Costanza. The opera is about the medieval Sicilian Queen Costanza, daughter of the Golden Age of Sicily brought about during the Reign of her father, King Roggiero II. Music by John Marino, libretto by Florence Bocarius.

 

Featuring an 11-piece professional orchestra and chorus conducted by the composer

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 2008

@ 4:00PM

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL CHURCH

627 East 187th Street and Belmont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458.

(Located 1 Block from Arthur Avenue; 3 blocks from Fordham University)

Tickets: At the door or for more information please contact the

Rectory at: (718) 295-3770

http://www.ourladymtcarmelbx.org/opera.htm

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TAMARA CASHOUR and RICHARD RUSSELL are both winners of a 2008-09 ASCAPlus award.

NYCC | In The Loop | Sep. 20, 2008

We hope to see everyone at our first meeting of the year tomorrow, Sep 21, as we kick off our seventh season! We are meeting from 2-5pm, at the Ellington Room at the Manhattan Plaza. The address is 400 West 43, enter at Ninth Avenue, and head up to the second floor. We'll be hearing two special presentations, one from GENE MARLOW and another from ADAM BERKOWITZ. Also, GENE MCBRIDE will be presenting music from his opera,  On Burning Ground.

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Percussionist STEPHEN SOLOOK is offering a course in "Writing for Percussion." He writes: "This Fall composers will have an opportunity to finally understand and collaborate with a percussionist about what is possible and what is not to a point that they will feel functional.  This 14 week course is dedicated to understanding the fundamentals of writing percussion. The class is geared towards composers of the college level and beyond, and was started because of how often myself and peers were approached about what is possible and what is logical. The class will be held in the centrally located area of Mid-town Manhattan at the French American School of Music."

 

Highlights include:

- Small Classes

- Weekly Assignments

- A Focus on Fundamentals

- All Standard Classical Percussion Instruments

- Drumset

- World Instruments

- Solo, Chamber, and Orchestral Settings

- Commissioning Project

- Possible Guest Lectures

 

Seating is limited! Call the French American School of Music at (212) 246-7378 for more information.

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MADELEINE SHAPIRO cellist and director of ModernWorks, writes in with a concert of interest to the NYCC: An evening of Interactive Cello and Dance Performance, in collaboration with the PalindromePerformanceGruppe, Robert Weschler, director and Dan Hosken, music and sound design

 

"View a sneak preview of what PalindromePerformance Gruppe is taking to

Istanbul, Turkey in November. Cello, dance, electronics and eye-poping technology combine for an informal evening, with a Q and A included. This demonstration and public showing of a new work-in-progress features ModernWorks' cellist/director MadeleineShapiro, and dancers of the PalindromePerformance Gruppe from Stuttgart, Germany. Composition and interactive music programming is by Dan Hosken. Using infrared technology, motion tracking technology and real-time digital signal processing the stage environment is influenced by the performers. Stage lighting and music are controlled by the movements of musicians and dancers in seldom-seen ways."

 

Tuesday, September 23 at 8pm at The Construction Company

10 East 18th Street, third floor buzzer

(Between 5th Avenue and Broadway)

Admission: $15.00, $10.00 students/seniors (tickets at the door)

212 924-7882

 

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Violinist MIRANDA CUCKSON writes: "I'd like to let you know about my upcoming Transit Circle concert on September 21 at Mannes College (150 W 85th street). I hope you can come! This is the second TC concert that I am directing- a contemporary music concert in which I and colleagues of mine will perform recent works by living composers. I'll be joined on the 21st by pianist Blair McMillen, flutist Christoph Bösch, violist Daniel Panner and cellist Sophie Shao. Admission is FREE and it's at 7:30pm."

 

The program:

Stefano Gervasoni:  Due Voci for violin and flute

Beat Furrer:  Presto for flute and piano

Michael Hersch: the wreckage of flowers  for violin and piano

Robert Cuckson:  String Trio

Mario Davidovsky:  Quartetto for flute and strings

Program for Sep 21 Salon

New York Composers Circle

First Salon of the Season.

Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2 p.m.
Manhattan Plaza Ellington Room
400 West 43rd Street

Program

1. Discussion of Organizational Matters and Reports
John de Clef Piñeiro, NYCC Executive Director, will bring us up to date
on administrative matters. (Approx. 1/2 hour.)

2. Special Presentations
Clarinetist Adam Berkowitz will give a special presentation on extended clarinet techniques. He will demonstrate circular breathing, multiphonics, vocalization, double tonguing and other techniques on clarinet and bass clarinet. He will discuss this from both the perspective of a clarinetist and of a composer.
(Approx. 1 & 1/2 hours)

Gene Marlow, NYCC Director of Media Relations, will give a talk entitled "Two Conventions: One a Microcosm of the Other." Marlow attended the National Performing Arts Convention, and the Jazz Radio Programmers Annual Conference. He will recommend that what was learned at these conferences can be and should be applied to the NYCC.
(Approx. 1/2 hour.)

3. Audition of Members's Works
[Due to the length of the presentations at this Salon, our customary music portion of the Salon must be abbreviated.]

Gene McBride -- Act 1, Scene 1, No. 4, from his opera "On Burning Ground." This recording features live singers with a Sibelius orchestra.
(Approx. 10 minutes.)

4. Conclusion and Refreshments