Ensemble Ipse - Streaming Concert of Recent Pieces
2021-05-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Ensemble Ipse is pleased to present this streaming concert of recent pieces:
Evan Williams – “Cantigas” – Complete NY Premiere
Stephanie Griffin – “Four Bonangs”
Seong Ae Kim – “Garak”
Elizabeth Hoffman – “For Margaret: Bloom Back Brighter” – NY Premiere
Philip Schuessler – “Patchwork Vespers” – NY Premiere
Date & Time: Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 4 PM CT | 5 PM ET, streaming on Youtube. $20 Suggested Donation
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Ensemble Ipse is a 501(c)(3) contemporary music ensemble dedicated to showcasing the wide variety of practices in the current new music scene. The ensemble presents concerts of recent music that transcends aesthetic categorization and strives to create a forum for composers and sound artists on the edges of the mainstream of contemporary music. With this in mind, Ensemble Ipse is committed to performing and commissioning the music of emerging composers, as well as composers who have been traditionally under-represented in the larger new music community, including women, LGBTQ, and people of color. Since forming in 2016, Ipse has premiered 26 works, 9 of them commissions, held calls for scores for emerging composers which have received thousands of applications, received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, New Music USA, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and released an album on New World Records in May, 2019.

MENDI+KEITH OBADIKE | LULL: a sleep temple (2020)
2021-05-29 21:00 - 22:00, 2021-05-15 17:00 - 18:00
Lull, a sleep temple is an overnight musical work. In this project Mendi + Keith Obadike create a sonic environment for rest. The 8 hour livestream uses field recordings, analog synths, and slow-moving harmonies from pianos, guitars, banjos, bell plates, and elongated melodies to create a field of sound for dreaming. At the center of the work is Mendi’s voice incanting original texts, remixed mythologies, and found fragments from books about dreams.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 10 PM UTC & Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 9 PM CT | 10 PM ET
“Dream kits” are no longer available but you can still sign up for the live stream of your choice below.
If you live in the US, you will receive a copy of Audra Wolowiec’s print poster Semaphore in the mail.
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The Illustrated Pianist
2021-05-29 18:00 - 19:00
THE ILLUSTRATED PIANIST is an in-person multimedia concert of all new piano works inspired by Ray Bradbury‘s timeless book The Illustrated Man. In celebration of the American author’s 100th birthday, pianist and composer Nicole Brancato brings together 9 brilliant pianists who double as performers and composers, including Geoffrey Burleson, Anthony de Mare, Kathleen Supové, Jed Distler, Sarah Dutcher, Thomas Feng, Mariel Mayz, Adam Tendler, and herself, as well as visual designer Eve Nova. These artists come from different corners of New York City’s professional piano world, merging diverse styles in an immersive concert of all new compositions and light installation, in honor of the iconic stories in The Illustrated Man.
Through these unique sonic and visual collaborations, THE ILLUSTRATED PIANIST connects diverse perspectives to understand our past, speak to us about our present, and ponder the future. The themes in Bradbury’s work transcend age and time – and perhaps, in some ways, speak to us even more loudly now than in previous decade.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET
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Learn more on Culture Lab’s website.

SRS @ Home - Family Concert
2021-05-29 17:00 - 18:00
Santa Rosa Symphony (SRS) presents a virtual concert experience on Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 5 PM CST | 3 PM PST on YouTube. It will be accompanied by excerpts curated by Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong from the Symphony’s 2020-2021 SRS at home concerts. Prior to each piece, Lecce-Chong, joined each time by a different SRS musician, will describe the featured section of the orchestra and its instruments and provide an engaging introduction.
This free, virtual, family-friendly concert will include the second movement of Brahms’ Serenade No. 2 in A major for Orchestra and excerpts from: Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) Asclepius, Fanfare for Brass and Percussion; Arturo Márquez’ Danzón No. 4 for Chamber Orchestra; William Grant Still’s Serenade for String Orchestra; and Zwilich’s Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra. The concert will run for less than one hour. There will be no intermission.

SPRING SOUND GARDEN at HARBOR PARK, Grand Marais MN
2021-05-29 12:00 - 17:00
Album Release: Minneapolis-based Composer / Director JG Everest (a 2019 McKnight Composer Fellow) returns to Grand Marais, MN to present his site-specific “Spring Sound Garden” performance installation at Harbor Park on May 29 & 30 as part of the annual ART ALONG THE LAKE open gallery tour event. This self-guided, spatial “concert you can move through” was originally composed specifically for Harbor Park, and is being re-mounted to celebrate the 15-Year Anniversary of this special place with over 40 participating artists and collaborators.
The Spring Sound Garden is the second installment of Everest’s 4-part WATER SUITE: Four Seasonal Sound Gardens that first premiered in 2018, at four different outdoor locations around Minnesota. Each seasonal Sound Garden in the Water Suite was composed for one of the four seasons, and for a specific site that was on or adjacent to a significant body of water. As part of the SPRING Sound Garden event in 2021, Everest is also releasing a new album of the soundtrack, “Harbor Park: A Spring Sound Garden”, including site-specific stories and poems that were commissioned for the original event.
The Spring Sound Garden at Harbor Park is a family-friendly free outdoor event open to all ages and will take place from noon – 5pm on Memorial Day weekend both Saturday May 29 and Sunday May 30, 2021. The Spring Sound Garden celebrates the coming of spring, the sacredness of water, and the history, geography, and ecology of Harbor Park and Lake Superior, and includes oral histories and archival photos, spotlighting the community of local volunteers and community members who brought the park into being.
The Spring Sound Garden features a temporary sound installation of 40 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park, each playing a different part of the larger piece of music, creating a multi-layered, immersive experience. The sound installation is accompanied live by roving musicians and dancers, “The Free Range Orchestra & Choir”, including acclaimed music and dance artists from both the Twin Cities and Grand Marais.
The event will also feature visual art elements by local artists such as plein air oil painter Neil Sherman, muralist Mila Horak, and storyteller Staci Lola Drouillard. Presented by Wavelets Creative in partnership with the Cook County Historical Society, Grand Marais Park Board, and Art Along The Lake / Visit Cook County.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 12pm CT
For more information, click here.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

C4 Presents: Our Voices
2021-05-27 19:30 - 20:30
C4 presents their eighth #C4GoesRemote livestream concert: Our Voices. Hear the latest in choral music, performed LIVE by singers across the US!
Date & Time: Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT | 8:30 PM ET
Our program will include the following pieces:
Austrian Suite by David See – world premiere
My Voice by Anna Heflin – US premiere
Nemesis by Mario Gullo – world premiere
Isolation by Karen Siegel – live remote premiere
Get more information here.

Neave Trio Performs Music by Clara Schumann and Astor Piazzolla on Virtual Concert Presented by The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN)
2021-05-26 16:00 - 17:00
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its series of Composer to Composer Talks, which features major American composers in conversation with each other about their work and leading a creative life. The intergenerational discussions will begin by exploring a single work with one composer interviewing the other. Attendees will gain insight to each work’s genesis, sound, influence on the American orchestral canon, and be invited to ask questions of the artists.
For this installment, Jonathan Bailey Holland talks with Alvin Singleton about his work BluesKonzert, a triple commission from 1995 by the Detroit, Houston and Kansas City symphony orchestras. The talk will be hosted by ACO’s Artistic Director Derek Bermel, live-streamed and available to watch for seven days after the event.
Of BluesKonzert, Michael Fleming writes in the program note, “Vernacular and classical traditions have often cross-pollinated in American music, both in performance and composition. A case in point is BluesKonzert, which mixes musical bloodlines as neatly as its title does language. Konzert is a German term that can mean either ‘concert,’ as in a musical program, or ‘concerto,’ as in a work for solo instrument and orchestra. Singleton, who trained in both classical music and jazz, is perfectly positioned to exploit such ambiguities and crossovers.”
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 4 PM CT | 5 PM ET
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Tate Meets Mozart
2021-05-25 08:00 - 17:00
DIGITAL PREMIERE! On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 4 PM MT, experience your Symphony musicians performing Mozart’s masterful Flute Quartet No. 1, Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate‘s (a ChoralQuest composer) Raccoon Talk for Solo Violin, Cherokee and Quapaw composer Louis Ballard’s Ritmo Indio, Francisco Braga’s A Sonorous Dialogue to the Moon, the world premiere of Alfredo Rolando Ortiz’s Habanera Gris, arranged by Tyler Emerson for Harp and Vocals, and more!
Beautifully filmed on the 15-acre residential campus of the School for Advanced Research—which sits on ancestral lands of the Tewa people—this colorful and rhythmic program celebrates the diverse culture and history of Santa Fe. Tickets are only $20 per household—with 30-day access!
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Candace Johnson’s Musical Series: The Art Songs of Black Composers
2021-05-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-22 21:30 - 22:30
In her new solo performance musical series, soprano and actress Candace Johnson shines a light on the art songs and lives of Black American composers. Much of the African American art song literature is not widely heard, though it has been a part of the classical music canon since the late 19th century. Through song and theatrical storytelling, Candace puts the life and music of Black composers on display.
The first installment, “Music to My Ears – Hearing Adolphus Hailstork” centers on the song cycle Ventriloquist Acts of God. As the songs are unpacked in a university music class, a professor and her students discuss how to hear the music – and each other – in a whole new way.
Date & Time: Saturday May 22, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT 7:30 PM PT and Sunday May 23, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 5 PM PT
Act I: Music to My Ears – Hearing by Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer) with Marc Shapiro, piano
A new solo performance musical series that shines a light on the art songs and lives of Black Composers
Immediately followed by a Q&A with
Founder/Artistic Director Stephanie Weisman
Find links to watch the live video here.

SFCMP in the COMMUNITY series. Sound Encounters
2021-05-23 17:00 - 18:00
This year’s in the COMMUNITY series concert features two works that are fully electronic and audio-visual in concept – a piece by Finnish composer Maija Hynninen, with a new video accompaniment by film artist Olivia Ting, and a newly expanded work by California-based composer Jon Kulpa, who’s developed both the audio and visual aspects of the piece. Joining to create a live performance element as counterpoint, is none other than the incomparable Andy Meyerson – artistic director, and one member of the powerhouse duo that is The Living Earth Show, based in San Francisco. Andy gives a highly personal stamp on two great works for single percussion instruments, James Tenney’s piece for solo tam-tam, on having never written a note for percussion, and Amadeus Regucera’s IMY/ILY for solo bass drum. This concert is the first in a collaborative effort that’s all about exploring and stretching the boundaries of sound creation.
Date & Time: Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT
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Telegraph Quartet Performs Virtual Concert Presented by Music in Corrales
2021-05-22 20:30 - 22:30
Beginning on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 8:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM MDT the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) is presented in a virtual performance by Music in Corrales.
Tickets to access the performance are $15, available here. Registrants will be sent a private YouTube link to watch the performance and the video will remain online to watch through Sunday, May 30, 2021. There will be a separate 1-hour Q&A session via Zoom for ticket holders on Saturday, May 22 at 7:30pm MDT with members of the quartet.
The quartet’s program includes Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 and Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51. Joseph Maile of the Telegraph Quartet says, “Both of these works represent each composer’s first public foray into the string quartet medium. Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 1 is his ambitious, if slightly delayed, entry into the quartet medium as the vanguard of his set of six quartets. And Brahms’ wistful second string quartet is one of his two final products, of numerous discarded attempts – most likely with Beethoven metaphorically looking over his shoulder.”

Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope
2021-05-22 20:00 - 21:00
Inspired by sacred music, this program looks toward a brighter tomorrow after a year filled with uncertainty. Stirring selections from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s piano compositions and George Walker’s First String Quartet lead the program, along with the world premiere performance of American Indian composer Brent Michael Davids’ (a BandQuest composer) new work for solo flute. We will conclude with Franz Joseph Haydn’s series of seven musical meditations on Christ’s final words.
We dedicate this program to the memory of George Floyd.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 8 PM CT
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A Brighter Tomorrow
2021-05-22 20:00 - 21:00
This is a Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra‘s Concert
Inspired by sacred music, this program looks toward a brighter tomorrow after a year filled with uncertainty. Stirring selections by Sergei Rachmaninoff lead the program, along with the world premiere of a new work for solo flute by American Indian composer Brent Michael Davids (a BandQuest composer).
Date & Time: Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 8pm CST
Livestream the event here.

Fac Favorites: Part Three
2021-05-22 18:00 - 19:00
Members of the Space Coast Symphony Youth Orchestras will perform side-by-side with their professional SCSO counterparts in an inspiring program that also includes the world premieres of Vero Beach resident Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) “Italian Sojourn” and of Thomas Joseph’s “Concerto Dystonia” for horn and orchestra, which chronicles the composer’s own battle with task-specific focal dystonia.. Featuring orchestral favorites and more, this is a concert just for you with wall-to-wall classics. Celebrated pianist, Jacob Craig will join the orchestra and perform works by Debussy, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff. The concert will also highlight the two winners of the Concerto Competition, Ethan Hahn and Payton Brown. Featuring popular works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Verdi and more, this concert of wall-to-wall classics is just for you.
Jacob Craig, piano
Ethan Hahn, french horn
Payton Brown, oboe
Date & Time: Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET
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Look + Listen – VIOLA YIP + KEN UENO | Forms of Erasure (premiere)
2021-05-22 15:00 - 16:00
Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 3 PM CT | 4 PM EST/UTC-4 (1pm PST | 10pm CET/UTC+2)
Viola Yip + Ken Ueno will present an hour-long live telematic multimedia performance. In this new piece for the Look + Listen Festival, they ask: How can we reclaim time from the COVID-19 malaise of non-time? What are ways in which geographically-distanced performance can point to the limits of what we feel as the “now”? Their piece will instrumentalize the streaming network, expressively coaxing affordances of failure, sonic artifacts which serve as evidence of life being lived in the present.
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ACF Artist Equity Summit: Twin Cities Arts Leaders
2021-05-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:00
As we have reached out to artists and leaders in our community, we hear a consistent need and desire to connect with one another and support each other in these times. ACF seeks to share our platform to bring our circles together and build relationships, share experiences, and strengthen our work through dialogue and art-making.
In May 2021 ACF will convene culturally specific organizations that have been a physical space and nexus for their artistic communities to exchange experiences, share ideas, and find support, as a follow-up to the conversations that we have had this spring with leaders from organizations like Black Table Arts, Cedar Cultural Center, Free Black Dirt, Indigenous Roots, Tru Ruts, and Root Springs. The conversation will be moderated by ACF Director of Community and Belonging, Dameun Strange.
Join us for two days of conversation on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 4pm CT & Friday, May 21, 2021 at 3pm CT
Register for part one here.
Register for part two here.
ADA language: If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact Laura Krider (lkrider@composersforum, 612.314.9228) at least 48 hours before the event.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

AACM Conversation with Rudresh Mahanthappa
2021-05-19 15:00 - 16:00
AACM in Conversation with Rudresh Mahanthappa Moderated by Dameun Strange on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 3PM CT
Join artist and AACM member Renee Baker and artist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s discussion of the work Rudresh has developed for AACM through our ACF l connect program. We’ll learn about Rudresh’s inspiration for the improvisation-driven piece and the process of creating music for the iconic Chicago-based ensemble that has worldwide reach – moderated by Dameun Strange.
Learn about our ACF | connect program here.
Register to this event here.
Possible ADA language: If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact Laura Krider (lkrider@composersforum, 612.314.9228) at least 48 hours before the event.
American Composers Forum’s ACF | connect program is made possible with the outstanding generosity of the following individuals: Jane Anfinson, Thomas Arneson, Suzanne Asher, Carol Barnett, Pearl and Bob Bergad, Margee and Will Bracken, Karen Brooks, Richard Cisek and Kay Fredericks, Dee Ann and Kent Crossley, Julia W. Dayton, C. Lee Essrig, Rosemary & David Good Family Foundation, Katherine Goodale, Jeff and Hyun Mee Graves, Mike and Kay McCarthy, Carol Heen, Steve Heitzeg and Gwen Pappas, Kathleen Henschel and John Dewes, Linda and Jack Hoeschler, Leaetta Hough and Bob Muschewske, Sam Hsu and Sally Cheng, Hella Mears Hueg Estate Gift, Thelma Hunter Estate Gift, John and Ruth Huss, George Frederick Jewett Foundation East, Art and Martha Kaemmer, Jon Lewis and Lisa Merklin, Greg McNeely, Alfred and Ann Moore, Louis and Gloria Nuechterlein, John Nuechterlein and Dan Monson, John and Debbie Orenstein, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation in memory of Thelma Hunter, David and Judy Ranheim, Denice Rippentrop, Vanessa Rose, Bill and Susan Sands, Gale Sharpe, Doug and Kathy Skor, Dan and Ellie Thomas, Stephen and Jayne Usery, Kathleen van Bergen, Janika Vandervelde, Jim Wafler, and Margaret and Angus Wurtele.

Professional Development Panel: Programming & Digital Curation
2021-05-19 14:00 - 15:15
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
How does traditional programming change when it’s focused online? Where is classical music headed in the digital age? American Composers Orchestra Artistic Director Derek Bermel moderates a panel of experts, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Panelists:
Keith Obadike, maker of music, art, and literature
Mendi Obadike, maker of music, art, and literature
Paola Prestini, composer, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of National Sawdust
Kamala Sankaram, composer, performer
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 2pm CT | 3pm ET
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If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact ACF’s Laura Krider within 48 hours of the webinar (lkrider@composersforum.org or 612.314.9228).

Giving Voice: A Place in the Choir
2021-05-18 19:00 - 20:00
Join this event for an uplifting and joyful virtual concert featuring our three Twin Cities based choruses.
Take “your special place” for this second virtual concert performance by Giving Voice Chorus!
The St. Paul, Minneapolis AM, and Minneapolis PM choruses are each featured singing a favorite song. And all three choruses
Join together to sing their opening and closing songs. Your “special place” is reserved just for you, right in the front row!
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 7 PM CT
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Gala 2021 Celebrating 60 Years of Theatre Communications Group: Our Stories
2021-05-18 18:30 - 19:30
This Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will be honoring the Performing Arts Alliance at their 60th Anniversary Gala: Our Stories.
Celebrate the theatre field’s legacy and future! You’re invited to celebrate this year’s honorees: Ricardo Khan and the Performing Arts Alliance. The Gala and virtual LIVE afterparty will be hosted by drag superstar Shequida. As TCG’s most important annual fundraiser, the Our Stories Gala also raises essential funds for the next 60 years and beyond – thank you!
ACF is a member of the Performing Arts Alliance (PAA) which is being honored for its extraordinary advocacy and leadership at the Theatre Communications Group Gala this month! ACF’s President and CEO, Vanessa Rose, is the PAA’s Board Secretary.
For more information and to get tickets, please visit TCG’s website.
Questions about TCG’s Gala? Please contact Natalie Smith, Development Manager, at nsmith@tcg.org.

Neave Trio Performs Virtual Concert Presented by Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society
2021-05-16 18:00 - 20:00
The Boston-based Neave Trio returns – virtually – to the Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society for an online concert, marking the trio’s seventh appearance on the series. The performance was recorded in Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where the trio is on faculty.
Date & Time: Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 4 PM PST
Tickets are available for purchase through Brown Paper Tickets here, and instructions to watch the stream will be sent to registrants via email.
Neave Trio’s program includes Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17; Glinka’s Trio Pathètique in D minor; Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8; and Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps. The Schumann and Boulanger are part of a collection of works by women composers, spanning the Romantic era through the modern day, that Neave Trio has been performing around the U.S and worldwide.
Anna Williams, Neave Trio violinist, says, “There is so much great repertoire that is under-performed, especially from women composers, and we feel it is essential to program and record these masterworks alongside the more well- known catalogue of piano trio repertoire. These women really broke down barriers and paved the way for future generations and we are excited to honor their unique contributions and voices.”
Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 is widely regarded as one of her best-known compositions. It was written after she endured a great personal loss and is full of heartfelt melodies and beautiful harmonies. You can hear her brilliant pianism, and arguably, musical inspiration that she provided to some of her famous male composer contemporaries. Lili Boulanger, noted by Gabriel Fauré as an incredible prodigy, was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome (1913). D’un matin de printemps is full of character and joy, though it was the last work she wrote before her death at the very young age of 24.
Originally titled Poème and dedicated to Shostakovich’s love interest, his first trio was written when he was only sixteen. It is full of beautiful, sincere and heartfelt melodies, but Shostakovich’s sonority, harmonies and textures are unmistakably recognizable even at this tender age. Known as the father of the Russian classical music tradition, Glinka wrote his Trio Pathètique in D minor while in Italy. It is unapologetically romantic, lush, and operatic. Inspired by heartbreak, Glinka wrote on the score, “The only way I know love, is by the pain it causes.”

Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert presented by Chamber Music at the Clark at UCLA
2021-05-16 15:00 - 17:00
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 3pm CT | 1:00pm PT, the Jupiter Quartet will perform a virtual concert presented by Chamber Music at the Clark at UCLA. The program features Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s String Quartet in E-flat Major; and Judd Greenstein’s Four on the Floor. Of his piece, written in 2006, Greenstein writes, “I wanted to write a piece that really rocked, not in the easy sense of writing out rock chords, but in the energy and vibe that would be conveyed in the music. To get this effect, I took advantage of the precise playing of a good string quartet, as well as the dramatic sounds of strings moving with and against each other.”

Learn more here.

NEW VOICES II
2021-05-15 18:30 - 19:30
Each work in the second New Voices program takes a text from the past and gives it a new perspective, including words by Anna Akhmatova, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, and more. Featuring four world premiere works as well as classic Russian poetry newly translated by Jody McAuliffe (3 Russian Nocturnes).
Date & Time: Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET
Program:

Tom Cipullo: Rapture
Daron Hagen: To a Street Person (World Premiere)
Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer): Lilacs
James Kallembach: Autumn Violets (World Premiere)
Libby Larsen (a BandQuest composer and ACF’s co-founder): The Other Side of Silence (World Premiere)
James Primosch: 2 Whitman Love Songs
Scott Wheeler: 3 Russian Nocturnes (World Premiere)
MARY BONHAG | ELISABETH MARSHALL
LAURA STRICKLING soprano
ANDREW FUCHS tenor
GREGORY FELDMANN baritone
MICHAEL BROFMAN | DANNY ZELIBOR piano

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New Voice Festival - Past/Present/Future
2021-05-15 18:30 - 19:30
BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY’S inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This first festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look toward the future
SATURDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
The idiosyncratic Balliett Brothers re-set Schubert’s final masterpiece Schwanengsesang in their own musical voices. After intermission, Katherine Balch‘s (a MN Orchestra Composer Institute participant) latest work takes a new look at Schumann’s masterful Dichterliebe from the female’s perspective, with newly commissioned poetry by Katie Ford. I. Katherine Balch: New Work* Brad and Doug Balliett: Swan Song * Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe Op. 48
SATURDAY, MAY 15TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
Each work in the second New Voices program takes a text from the past and gives it a new perspective, including words by Anna Akhmatova, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, and more. II. Tom Cipullo: Rapture Daron Hagen: To a Street Person* Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer): Lilacs James Kallembach: Autumn Violets* Libby Larsen (ACF’s co-founder and a BandQuest composer): New Work* James Primosch: 2 Whitman Love Songs Scott Wheeler: 3 Russian Nocturnes*
SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
The New Voices finale looks back at BASS’s commissioned works from the last five years, celebrating its impressive past as it looks forward to its exciting future. III. Daniel Felsenfeld: For Clara James Matheson: Pessoa Songs Harold Meltzer: From a Book of Beautiful Monsters II Kurt Rohde: It Wasn’t a Dream
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In Search of Peace - LIVESTREAM
2021-05-15 18:00 - 19:00
This program will be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook.
Minju Kim, violin; Keith Robinson, cello; Daniel Gilbert, clarinet; Donna Lee, piano
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 11, Ludwig van Beethoven
Andante un poco mosso from Trio, Op. 99, Franz Schubert
Lucas’s Garden, Amanda Harberg
Song Without Words, Libby Larsen
Date & Time: Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET

Tin Pan Allegiances, Featuring Music Inspired by NYC's Tin Pan Alley
2021-05-15 17:00 - 18:00
Composers Concordance presents Tin Pan Allegiances on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 6 PM ET at Michiko Studios in New York City. The concert commemorates and pays tribute to NYC’s Tin Pan Alley, where publishers of zillions of popular songs had their offices. Songwriters associated with Tin Pan Alley included George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern, among many others.
New chamber music compositions that pay tribute to this essential chapter in NYC’s music history include Gene Pritsker’s TINPANAPNIT, Frank J. Oteri’s TakeMe-2Stretch, and Dan Cooper’s Dub Alexander. These will be performed alongside several standard songs from yesteryear.
As part of this live-streamed concert with a limited, in-person audience, composer George Boziwick, retired Chief of the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will virtually lead a sing-along performance of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, composed in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilze.
Composers featured on the concert include Irving Berlin, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Burton Lane, Frank J. Oteri, Cole Porter, Gene Pritsker, Daniel Schnyder, Richard Sussman, David Taylor, and Vincent Youmans / Gus Kahn / Edward Eliscu.
Performers featured include Scot Albertson – voice, Trudy Chan – piano, Charles Coleman – voice, Dan Cooper – bass guitar, Beth Holub – viola, Gene Pritsker – guitar and piano, Daniel Schnyder – soprano sax, Richard Sussman – piano, David Taylor – bass trombone, and Michael C. Vetter Jr. – drum set.
Tickets are $30. Get them here.
If you cannot make this event in person, please watch the live-stream of it here.

After Hours: Latina Composers
2021-05-14 19:00 - 20:00
The second edition of the much-beloved After Hours program is back, and this time, it is celebrating 11 astounding Latina composers. Russell Thomas, Artist in Residence-turned-host, curated this spectacular special to transport you right to Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba and Peru (without ever leaving your home).
Presented in collaboration with Opera San José and filmed in their new digital media studio, this recital will feature songs by Modesta Bor (1926-1998), María Luisa Escobar (1903-1985), Chabuca Granda (1920-1983), María Grever (1885-1951), Ernestina Lecuona (1882-1951), Ángela Peralta (1845-1883) and Consuelo Velázquez (1916-2005). You’ll also hear works by four contemporary composers: Gabriela Lena Frank (The Five Moons of Lorca, anyone?), Tania León (a BandQuest composer) and Mariela Rodríguez and Irma Urteaga.
Watch, listen, and be amazed by soprano Vanessa Becerra and tenor Carlos Enrique Santelli (who are both alumni of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program), baritones Luis Alejandro Orozco and Efraín Solís, pianists César Cancino and Bryndon Hassman, and guitarist Jose Chuy Hernandez as they take our virtual stage for this can’t-miss performance.
Date & Time: Friday, May 14th at 7 PM CT | 5 PM PT
Learn more on how to watch here.
