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Bodies Electric is an electric guitar quartet founded by John Chang, who assembled a group of players devoted to experimentation and improvisation. Charles Wuorinen's Electric Quartet (2015) was written for Chang and Bodies Electric, a psychedelic electronic medium with pungent rock overtones. Among the composers whose work they have performed: Frank Zappa.

In addition to Varèse and Zappa, featured composers in tonight’s concert include David Claman, Kanghee Choi, Frank Brickle, Terry Champlin, David Loeb , Kyle Miller, Paula Matthusen, Gillian Welch, John Chang and William Anderson.

Zappa was a self-taught composer whose work embraced rock, pop, jazz, chamber, orchestral, fusion, and musique concrète. He first heard about Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, in a Look magazine article and began to seek out his music, eventually spotting The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Volume One in a sale bin – it had been used, unsuccessfully, to demonstrate hi-fi. On his fifteenth birthday, Zappa used $5 from his mother to call the composer: “I figured Mr Varèse lived in New York because the record was made in New York (and because he was so weird, he would live in Greenwich Village). I got New York Information, and sure enough, he was in the phone book.” Zappa never did meet the man he described as “my idol” and treasured a letter he received from him in 1957, written in “very tiny scientific-looking script”.

Varèse died in 1965 and his house at 188 Sullivan Street is marked by a plaque. Not long after, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention began a residency at the Garrick Theater, 152 Bleecker Street, above the Café au Go-Go… opened to rival the Bitter End.

This event will also be livestreamed on Youtube. You will be able to watch this event live, or at any time after broadcast.

Harold Meltzer has been described as a composer of “scrupulous craft and exceptional freshness”, his style featuring “brightly contrasted colors that simultaneously aren’t flashy”. He has written for intimate chamber ensembles and full orchestra, and for everything in between, often scoring for unusual combinations of instruments. Brion (2008) for flute, oboe, guitar, mandolin, violin, and cello, earned him a nomination as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, one of many honors.

With sopranos Sharon Harms and Elizabeth Farnum, members of Cygnus – Calvin Wiersma, violin; Susannah Chapman, cello; and Oren Fader and William Anderson, guitars – and pianists Margaret Kampmeier and Joan Forsyth. The program includes the world premiere of Doria Pamphili, for solo guitar.

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Sameena Mitta choreographs a new dance piece

with new music for three sopranos by Stephanie Griffin

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A multidisciplinary project with Carmen Hélena Téllez

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Nouveau Classical Project and guests perform new works for voice and Pierrot ensemble by Maria Kaoutzani, Susanna Hancock, and Bouman Fellow Mason Bynes​

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Ms. Harms premieres a new work with text of Naomi Shihab Nye set by Adam Roberts

“On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close.”

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New works for voice by students of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

An evening of songs by William Anderson, Frank Brickle, Stephen Chatman, George Crumb, Jesse Jones, Jocelyn Morlock, and Rodney Sharman with pianist Joan Forsyth.

Selected songs by William Anderson, Frank Brickle, Stephen Chatman, George Crumb, Jocelyn Morlock, and Rodney Sharman with pianist Joan Forsyth.

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A recital of contemporary works by American and Canadian composers with pianist Joan Forsyth.

Third Street Music Settlement’s Piano department celebrates the music of Paul Hindemith and features Pulitzer Prize winner composer Yehudi Wyner in residency with Third Street students. The weekend will feature special music hours, master classes, performances, and conversations. Ms. Harms joins as a guest artist to sing songs by Yehudi Wyner.

Open G Records, founded by clarinetist Chris Grymes, is committed to producing music that is rooted in the classical tradition, but brings artists and their fans together in new and innovative ways.

Chris and Open G present a concert of mystical, celestial music by seminal American composer George Crumb, one of the most significant composers of the last half century, in honor of his 90th birthday. The program includes the classic Night of the Four Moons, a setting of dreamlike texts by Lorca for the intriguing combination of mezzo-soprano, flute, banjo, electric cello, and percussion. Written in 1969 as a response to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the piece unfolds in whispers and echoes, amid an enigmatic landscape peppered with the sounds of Tibetan prayer stones, Japanese Kabuki blocks, African thumb pianos, and Chinese temple gongs. The evening will also feature Sun and Shadow for voice and piano, and the premiere of a new short film about Crumb by Zac Nicholson, produced by Open G Records and National Sawdust. 

Don’t miss this celebration of this titan of contemporary music and some of his most enchanting work.

All performances include a 7pm pre-concert talk with the composers and music director, as well as a post-concert reception.

Four young and less-young classics of the twentieth century, works from startlingly divergent musical worlds, open Collage’s 2019-2020 season. Of his Okanagon, for three low-pitched and amplified instruments, Giacinto Scelsi, one of Italy’s most important if still obscure composers of the 20th century, said it was like “grasping the heartbeat of the Earth." From the other extreme from this eerie, ritualistic music is one of the most involving works by one of the most involving composers of our era, Elliott Carters’s grand setting of six poems by the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop, here sung by the luscious-toned and astute soprano Sharon Harms, who appears with Collage for the first time. 

In Tobias Picker’s early Octet, the lyrical and volatile crash into each other like tectonic plates. This unpredictable, single-movement work wears its serious humor in a most peculiar way, as does Steven Mackey’s Five Animated Shorts, in which playful and glittery music throws seven virtuosic soloists into a fantastical world of cimbalom-driven folk music and—somehow—imagined still-photographs of a running dog!

Hailed by BBC World News as “one of the most talented composers of his generation,” Fairouz composes in virtually every genre, including opera, symphonies, vocal and choral settings, and chamber and solo works. His program “Circles: A Recital of Song Cycles” showcases his engagement with American poets, each cycle representing a different aspect of recursive human experience. In these three song cycles, singers are complemented by chamber ensembles of bowed string instruments, winds, and piano.

Concerts take place on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. and Monday at 8:00 p.m.

Hailed by BBC World News as “one of the most talented composers of his generation,” Fairouz composes in virtually every genre, including opera, symphonies, vocal and choral settings, and chamber and solo works. His program “Circles: A Recital of Song Cycles” showcases his engagement with American poets, each cycle representing a different aspect of recursive human experience. In these three song cycles, singers are complemented by chamber ensembles of bowed string instruments, winds, and piano.

Concerts take place on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. and Monday at 8:00 p.m.

Music by Ileana Perez-Velazquez, Stephanie Griffin, David Glaser, and Aaron Copland

The University of Northern Colorado Open Space Festival of New Music features guest artists in concerts with UNC faculty, students, and the UNC Symphony, lectures, and roundtable discussions.  Open Space is an annual event that brings significant composers and performers of contemporary music to our campus.  Now in its tenth year, the Festival enables faculty, students, and the community to be exposed to ideas and currents in new music; students in particular are able to work with and speak directly with some of its foremost practitioners. Concerts, master classes, roundtables, and workshops, all open to the public, are a hallmark of this weeklong festival.  Since 2009, featured composers have been Gabriela Ortiz, Kyle Gann, Christian Wolff, Augusta Read Thomas, Sean Friar, experimental legend Alvin Lucier, French electronic pioneer Jean-Claude Risset, sound artist and sonic healer Paul Rudy, and the Jake Schepps Quintet, a bluegrass ensemble that performs new art music.  Interpreters featured on the Festival include the Callithumpian Consort, pianists Stephen Drury, Mari Kawamura, and Mireia Frutos, guitarist Nathan Fischer, bassist Matt Smiley, the UNC Symphony, and students and faculty of UNC.

Sharon joins the festival to sing a new multimedia work by Paul Elwood on the life of Louise Brooks.

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ICE performs the music of Columbia University undergraduates

Sharon joins the Long Island Symphonic Choral Association as a guest soloist for Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 and Vivaldi’s Magnificat. Led by Eric Stewart since 2017, the LISCA repertory ranges from the Renaissance masters to the avant-garde, and includes premiers of many works of contemporary composers. The chorus has toured in France and England (1997,) Iceland (2000,) Ireland (2003,) Argentina (2010,) Italy (2013,) and the Baltic States (2016.) 

Alice Shields' new opera about taking down the patriarchy and forcing the patriarchs to practice compassion.

Zhaojun: soprano Sharon Harms
The Emperor: baritone Jeremy Huw Williams

Carl Bettendorf, conductor
Ashley Tata, director
and the musicians of Ensemble Pi

Concert premiere presented by The Association for the Promotion of New Music and Ensemble Pi

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Sharon and Emily bring a program of works by Claudio Monteverdi, Samuel Barber, Claude Debussy, Hoagy Carmichael, Jason Robert Brown, and John Harbison to the Englewood Arts Chamber Music Series

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Ms. Zehner will join a number of extraordinary New York City-based guitarists for an evening of music at Symphony Space. Her collaborators include Yunxiang Fan playing Paul Lansky, Daniel Conant and Tom Torrissi performing Chester Biscardi’s exquise *Resisting Stillness*; Kyle Miller will perform music by Kyle Miller; John Bogan & Yerin Kim, offer music by David Leisner; Samuel Rubinstein performs Bartosz Lasecki; Yvonne Zehner & William Anderson collaborate with soprano Sharon Harms for the premiere of Frank Brickle’s setting of Catallus 101.

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Mahler and Space - CONCERTS AT 1PM AND 7:30PM

Oliver Schneller - Clair/Obscur (2006) for ensemble and surround sound electronics
Argento gave its U.S. premiere on January 15, 2015

Gustav Mahler- Rückert Lieder for voice and piano (selections)
[1:00] Gerhard Krammer - Rückert Lieder for voice and piano
Sharon Harms, soprano

[7:30] Matthew Ricketts - After Nine (2014/2016) 
Argento gave its New York premiere on September 15, 2014

[7:30] Elisabeth Harnik - New Work
World premiere. Elsabeth Harnik, piano ; Jane Rigler, flute

Emerging Austrians

Elisabeth Harnik - Kugelstein II (2006) for voice and bass clarinet
Sharon Harms, soprano ; Carol McGonnell, bass clarinet
U.S. premiere

Bernd Klug and Meaghan Burke - New Work
World premiere

Manuela Meier - What you see, is it (2016) for two trombones
New York premiere

Gustav Mahler - Trinklied from Das Lied von der Erde (1908/2018) for tenor and ensemble
Chamber arrangement by Michel Galante ; Virgil Hartinger, tenor
Argento gave its world premiere on January 15, 2015

Taylor Brook - Arrhythmia (2012/2017) expanded version for string ensemble and percussion
Argento gave its world premiere in December 2017

Jesse Jones - Threshold (2012) for tenor and ensemble
Argento gave its U.S. premiere on January 15, 2015

Alma Mahler - Drei Lieder (1899) for tenor and piano

Patricia Alessandrini - Alma (2018) for soprano and ensemble (preview performance) 
Sharon Harms, soprano

Gustav Mahler - Adagio and Scherzo-Finale from Symphony No. 10 (1910/2018)
Chamber arrangement by Michel Galante
Argento gave its world premiere on August 28, 2015

TALEA IN NEW YORK

COURTNEY BRYAN new work (2018)  *world premiere
MAX DULANEY new work (2018)  *world premiere
REBECCA SAUNDERS murmurs (2009)