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[Wombat in Combat]
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[Field Theory]
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[Chocolateboy!]
www.myspace.com/chocolateboynyc

MIVOS Quartet explores divergent paths toward beauty and narrative: the aggressive passionate neoromanticism of Rihm and the gentle, austere language of Cage. Anna Clyne's powerful Roulette brings elements of both aesthetics together to find a unique path.

Program:

· Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952): String Quartet No. 4 (1981)

· John Cage (1912-1992): String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)

· Anna Clyne (b. 1980): Roulette for string quartet & electronics (2007)

However one chooses to describe such terms, beauty and narrative are deeply embedded into the forms of instrumental music. The works by Rihm and Cage on this program represent two radically different approaches to expression, even different ideas about what expression is.

The language of Rihm's String Quartet No. 4 is immediately striking. Aggressive, intense phrases, drastic dynamic fluctuations, extreme register changes, even silence - all of these elements are put together in an intuitive way to convey a highly subjective piece of vivid emotional power.

Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts deliberately attempts to avoid subjectivity. Using his gamut technique, where each sonority is treated as an instrument and is never changed or developed, Cage systematically creates a language and form free of self-reference. While their aesthetics could not be more different, both pieces elicit an immediate strong responses. Under the guidance of a skilled composer, music communicates powerful emotions regardless of intentions.

Anna Clyne's Roulette is a great example of a synthesis and expansion of both approaches, juxtaposing serene modality with noise elements and chaotic atonal phrases. The addition of electronics and her use of harmony combine to create a work that is unique, aggressive & beautiful all at once.

MIVOS Quartet is devoted to performing contemporary music. It was founded in 2008 by violinists Olivia De Prato and Joshua Modney, violist Victor Lowrie, and cellist Isabel Castellvi. They have performed and premiered works by Anna Clyne, Wolfgang Rihm, Juan Calderon, Luke DuBois, Huang Ruo, Tony Conrad and Kirsten Broberg. They have appeared at venues including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Galapagos Art Space and the Brecht Forum, and were featured performers for the 2008 American Music Center Annual Meeting at the Chelsea Art Museum.

http://www.mivosquartet.com

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Before it was Rock 'n' Roll it was Rhythm and Blues. At a time when music was segregated, African American songwriters had to turn to white outlets if they wanted their music heard on the radio or sold in record stores. The daughter of a poor Arkansas farmer, Rose Marie McCoy started out performing in Harlem clubs before writing songs for such luminaries as Ike & Tina Turner, Nat King Cole and Elvis Presley. In Rose "The Real" McCoy: A Musical Tribute to a Living Legend of Soul, acclaimed singer/actress Sandra Reaves-Phillips pays tribute to the great rhythm and blues legends of the 1950's and early 60's. Culled from over twenty hours of interviews, Rose tells the story of one independent, determined songwriter's climb to fame, the legends she met along the way, and features live performances by eighty-seven-year old Ms. McCoy herself!

Performed by Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Featuring Rose Marie McCoy

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Perez met Bobo and Ziemniak during the summer of 2009 in Germany. They learned much about life and the power of freedom and interplay while filling the beautiful Berlin streets with the sounds of their instincts.

Inside their space-bubble the land is Free and Happy... they'd like nothing more than to share it with you.

Free jazz rocks.

www.myspace.com/thyrse

www.myspace.com/utonamreh

MISTY ROSES:
An exploration of the black shadows that fall across pop music's middle of the road.

A transatlantic combo based in London and New York City, their sound is darkly glamorous and melodramatic, turbulent and opulent.

www.mistyroses.com

www.myspace.com/mistyroses

www.facebook.com/mistyrosesmusic

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CRASH&BURN:

we are two people
we are not afraid
we want to know you
we will entertain you
we want to make sure
you never forget
the way you need
to feel

www.myspace.com/thecrashburn

Debut LP out in June
www.sojournrecords.com

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SUGARLIFE:

A sonic shaman whose only constant is change.

“It’s like watching a cheap live daytime soap where the main female character unravels on stage . There is usually some sort of molting which follows….Imagine if the United States became a third world country and people had to resort to living room theater or decrepit mall theater for entertainment ...I’m trying to make manifest the subconscious imagery that inhabits the world of dreams and film."

Neo-Fluxus freak out? Absurdist action art? The ghost of a soft G.G. Allin as a drag queen from a distant planet?

MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/sugarlif

Performances:
http://www.youtube.com/ZMCeTlefI4M
http://www.youtube.com/user/chalbeda#p/a/u/2/fXKx40QjWzc

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble, dedicated to music composed of 100 notes or fewer, will present a series of works for violin duo by composers from around the world. The program will include classic works from the great masters alongside world premieres.

Violinists Christopher Otto and Erik Carlson will be performing.

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble has performed hundreds of new works by composers from around the world. Over 200 composers have written works for the Ensemble, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, Michael Finnissy, Charles Wuorinen, Georges Aperghis, Alvin Lucier, and Jandek. In addition to their regular live performances, the NYME recently recorded for Albany Records, and has been featured on radio in Chicago and New York. Formed in 2004 by graduates of the Juilliard School, the Ensemble has been praised for their virtuosic performances and innovative programming.

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Jacquelyn Adams, bass guitar/horn
Mike McCurdy, percussion/drum set
Sheryl Lee, piano/keyboard
Yoon Kwon, acoustic/electric violin

Pillaging the back-catalogs of rock and classical alike, New York-based electro-chamber band Vintage Fire is on the cutting edge of genre-bending music and multimedia performance.

Classically trained but raised on a diet of rock, pop, and electronica, the musicians of Vintage Fire are equally at home on a concert stage, in an art gallery, or in the basement of some rock and roll dive bar. The Vintage Fire sound shares the stage with an international roster of artists from across disciplines, creating a unique staging that integrates music, video, theatre, poetry, dance, and artifacts from pop culture.

http://www.Vintage-fire.com

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Violinist and composer TODD REYNOLDS (Bang on a Can/Steve Reich Ensemble) and composer and electronic performer RYAN INGEBRITSEN (We Can and We Must) come together for the first time to perform new works for various combinations of interactive and reactive media.

Reynolds and Ingebritsen's performance promises a forward-looking infusion of 21st century tech tools with a sensibility from older art forms and traditional pop idioms. Both artists have re-invigorated their musical careers in recent years by engaging in collaborations and projects outside their home territories of Bang on a Can and We Can and We Must. This new project represents a fresh departure for both artists.

THE DAN PECK TRIO consists of Dan Peck (tuba), Tom Blancarte (bass) and Brian Osborne (percussion). The group plays a mix of freely improvised music and Peck's compositions. They recently recorded their first album, partially influenced by music from the Doom Metal genre.

http://toddreynolds.wordpress.com/
http://www.ryaningebritsen.com/
http://www.wcawm.com/
http://www.myspace.com/danjpeck/

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The INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE's horn virtuoso DAVID BYRD-MARROW presents this concert of rarely-heard music for this most euphonious of instruments. Featuring music for solo french horn by Oliver Messiaen, duos by Gérard Grisey and Michael Atkinson, and more.

Program:

Naulais - Miroir
Xenakis - Mnamas Xapin Witoldowi Lutoslavskiemu (In Memory of Witold Lutosławski)
Grisey - Cinq miniatures pour deux cors en Fa
Atkinson - Duets for Horns #1-6
Messiaen - Le tombeau de Jean-Pierre Guezec (Appel Interstellaire) from Des canyons aux étoiles
Flowers - What he does

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” said 20th Century comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Taking this advice literally (and as a challenge) a four-piece ensemble of clarinetists intend to do just that. For one night, to the backdrop of some of Chaplin’s best works, they will improvise musical melodrama to accompany all the pain and pantomime on screen.

Nuno Antunes, Marissa Byers, David Sapadin and Boris Shpitalnik are successful musicians, having performed all over the world, and now combine forces to reduce their art to the interpretation of slapstick. Chaplin’s cane swinging, hat tipping, dame-conquering, thug-outsmarting routines will each be given new life by the ensemble as they attempt to keep up with the action.

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New Music For Guitar and Cello!

After meeting this summer at the Orford Sound Art workshop in Canada, cellist EMILIE GIRARD-CHAREST and guitarist KOBE VAN CAUWENBERGHE decided to join forces and put together an exciting and challenging program of contemporary works for guitar and cello. Not to be missed!

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann, 'Pression'
Brian Ferneyhough, 'Kurze Schatten II' (mvts 2,3 and 5)
José Maria Sanchez-Verdu, 'Nada'
André Hamel, 'Interférence sur le Crin'
Simon Steen-Andersen, 'In-Side-Out-side-In'

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Cellist Emilie Girard-Charest stands out for her eclecticism. She is as involved with traditional classical music as she is with contemporary repertoires and interdisciplinary projects. She has been able to work with artists of every stripe, for example, with choreographer Andrew Tay, as well as the Instant, Éponyme and Émergence theatre companies, interdisciplinary artist Vicky Tansey, and publishers Poètes de Brousse. With flautist Yuki Isami and harpsichordist Jean-Willy Kunz, in 2004 she founded the Allogène ensemble, a group with varying forces dedicated to mainly Baroque and contemporary music, as well as improvisation. Girard-Charest is continuing her education at the Montreal Conservatory under the supervision of Denis Brott.

Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (Antwerp, Belgium) started his guitar studies at the conservatory of Antwerp and recieved his master degree at the conservatory of Ghent where he studied with Tom Pauwels. He currently lives in New York City, persuing a masterdegree in contemporary music performance at the Manhattan School of Music. He performed both in Europe and the US, as solist and in several chambermusic formations and ensembles such as Champ d’Action, Nadar, ZWERM, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Either/Or Ensemble, Signal, Callithumpian Consort, a.o. He has worked with such composers as Vinko Globokar, Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin and Brian Ferneyhough. Mr. Van Cauwenberghe is winner of the 2008 Fuchs chamber music competition and a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

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Four famous arias which address the theme of love in different stages, coupled with dramatized scenes in Gothic flair.

LUSTFUL LOVE in Don Giovanni

PURE LOVE in La Boheme

SACRIFICIAL LOVE in La Traviata

UNREQUITED LOVE in Andre Chenier

This playful surreal look at opera will give the younger generation a chance to see classical music in a venue to which they would not ordinarily be exposed.

LOVE THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS makes opera hip.

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ANGELO GALLO has been singing opera professionally around the world for forty years, working with such greats as Delia Rigal, Tito Schipa’s protégé, Mario Rossi, and Lina Pagliughi’s, Helen Greco.

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Produced by:

VOICES FROM THE FIVE (sponsored by The Field)

http://www.bronxvoices.org

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The Aeros Quintet, an imaginative and dynamic all female wind quintet, performs a wide range of chamber music including classical, contemporary, jazz-inspired and music from around the world. Formed in 2005 at the Manhattan School of Music, the quintet combines expert musicianship with intelligence and a keen sense of humor to delight and inspire their audiences.

This program will include works by Ligeti, Maslanka, Ginastera, Mackey and more.

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