John Adams: Attacca String Quartet

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

“Recently Added” is a 3 concert arc. It is an exploration of the complete works of living composers who have made significant additions to the string quartet repertoire. This is a follow-up to our project called “the 68” where we played the complete string quartets of Haydn. This installment will feature the works of John Adams. …

$29

The Music of Composer Lisa Bielawa

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show A concert of the music of composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa, performed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) with Bielawa as vocal soloist. The program, part of National Sawdust’s series curated by composer Theo Bleckmann, will feature Bielawa’s A Collective Cleansing (2000) for solo voice and digital audio, Graffiti Dell’amante (2010) for string …

$29

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

Free: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

Jason Treuting + JACK Quartet

Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

So Percussion founding member Jason Treuting takes the spotlight as composer and performer in his New York solo recital debut.

FREE

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

Spektral Quartet: Playing Out

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Playing Out is a showcase of liberated creativity, defying definition and building new musical lexicons through the intersection of experimental jazz, improvisation, and electroacoustic music. The program features the New York premiere of an ecstatic new quartet by George Lewis (Fromm Foundation commission), as well as mesmeric numbers by Katherine Young and …

$35

Chaos Theory

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Podcast and live radio collide in an evening of music inspired by fractals, dynamic systems, feedback loops and nature.  Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music present Caroline Mallonee’s Butterfly Effect, a string quartet inspired by the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in Australia could cause a tornado in Texas, …

$29