Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: Stephanie Griffin, viola; Ned Rothenberg, alto sax, bass clarinet and shakuhachi; Satoshi Takeishi, drums; Robert Dick, flutes. "A rich and varied improvisational banquet!"
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Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: Vince Bell, spoken word and song David Mansfield, guitars of all types Ratzo B. Harris, bass Robert Dick, flutes and voice
About the Show Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and all-star collection of musicians will perform the New York premiere of Harold’s complete song cycle Variations on a Summer Day, for voice and nine instruments, setting the twenty stanzas of the Wallace Stevens poem of the same name. The nonpareil Boston Chamber Music Society, with Max Levinson, piano, …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: celebrating the release of Robert Dick's solo contrabass flute CD on Tzadik. (PS: if you've never seen or heard a contrabass flute, you must check this out!)
The new collaborative project Sélébéyone takes the conversation between jazz and hip hop to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese Rap, French Spectral Music, Modern Jazz, Underground Hip-Hop, Interactive Electronic and beyond. Composer and saxophonist Steve Lehman leads the international ensemble, which features HPrizm (vocals, English), Gaston Bandimic (vocals, Wolof), Maciek Lasserre (sax/electronics), …
About the Show Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud with Aruan Ortiz (piano), Fay Victor (vocals), Tomeka Reid (cello), Nicole Mitchell (flutes, composition, electronics) “That warm dark realness was a doorway between worlds and she visited often. This is where all sound, dreams, and ideas lived. A cloudy dark purple space where forms emerged from formlessness, some …
Trina Basu (violin) Anjna Swaminathan (violin) Camila Celin (guitar, sarod) Tali Rubinstein (recorder) Amali Premawardhana (cello) Roshni Samlal (tabla) Lauren Crump (percussion) Morley (voice) Roopa Mahadevan (voice) Priya Darshini (voice) Pyeng Threadgill (voice) Haleh Gafori (voice) Featured Women’s Organization: Ms. Foundation Women's Raga Massive presents a Round Robin, bringing together 12 women who will perform …
About the Show Four Oceans explores ritualistic forms of interplay in an improvised context. A new group, it combines the talents of Old Time Relijun frontman Arrington De Dionyso, Rupert Huber of the famous Viennese trip-hop duo Tosca, and globetrotting drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti. De Dionyso, who is also a painter, performs on bass clarinet and …
Three Generations: John Adams and Terry Riley Zankel Hall Seating Chart (PDF) Part of the Steve Reich–curated Three Generations exploration of the changing direction of concert music, this evening focuses on the pioneering first generation of composers. In his revolutionary In C, Terry Riley took 53 phrases, or modules, and gave players the freedom to …
