Music and Dance – How to Find Your Creative Partner and Make New Collaborations Happen
2021-10-28 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
New Music USA and Dance/USA are thrilled to team up to present an exciting roundtable discussion exploring the collaboration possibilities between music creators and choreographers. This free, online panel is titled Music and Dance – How to Find Your Creative Partner and Make New Collaborations Happen. The event will feature Emmy® Award-nominated choreographer/director and The Black Iris Project founder Jeremy McQueen in conversation with dancer and Juilliard dean & director of dance Alicia Graf Mack, as well as McQueen’s collaborators on his acclaimed dance film series WILD: Composer and vocalist Chari Glogovac-Smith; singer-songwriter Morgxn, and composer and musician Amina Scott.

The artists will share their experiences, insights, and unique perspectives on working in the collaborative world of dance and music, and provide advice for those excited to explore this intersection of creative work. The event will also feature video excerpts from WILD, McQueen’s groundbreaking four-part dance film documenting and amplifying the voices of system-involved young men of color. WILD is supported by New Music USA.

Date & Time: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET
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Contemporary Narratives: New Works for the Zodiac Trio
2021-10-27 18:30 - 20:00
The NYC Contemporary Music Symposium presents the Zodiac Trio in a musical journey through six bold, contemporary works for clarinet, violin, and piano. Heralded by Radio France as “A breathtaking ensemble of virtuosity and sensitivity,” the Zodiac Trio has established itself as the leading international trio of its kind.
Join for an evening of fresh and exciting takes on the timeless tradition of musical storytelling, featuring five world premieres written for the Zodiac Trio.
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Tickets are available here.
PROGRAM:
You. Just a Person Made of Plastic (2020) – María del Pilar Miralles Castillo (World Premiere, Written for the Zodiac Trio) 1st Prize Winner of the 2020 Zodiac International Music Competition (Composition Category)
Shocked Quartz (2021) – Greg Simon (World Premiere, Written for the Zodiac Trio) 1st Prize Winner of the 2021 Zodiac International Music Composition (Composition Category)
Rive (2002) – Douglas Keenans
Dance Mix (2020) – Chiayu Hsu (World Premiere, Written for the Zodiac Trio)
Unfurl (2021) – Zach Gulaboff Davis (World Premiere, Written for the Zodiac Trio)
The Thread You Follow (2021) – Patrick Andrew Thompson (World Premiere, Written for the Zodiac Trio)

Music Monday LIVE!
2021-10-25 17:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-18 17:00 - 18:00
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT
Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry professionals, ask questions, and share ideas. This event is open to the public and hosted on INSTAGRAM LIVE.
This 10-week series kicks off with Songwriter and Photographer Teron Beal (@teronbeal) and Xavier Washington (@zaytheartist), youth leader and Development Coordinator at Save The Music Foundation.
If you want to join the conversation, don’t be shy! You’re welcome you to hop on the Live during the Q&A. Next week’s Instagram Live will be hosted on the Save The Music Instagram (@savethemusic).

Pilgrim Journey: Songs of Faith and Courage
2021-10-24 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-10-23 18:30 - 19:30
Co-Artistic Directors William B. Richter and Elizabeth Chapman Reilly will lead the ensemble in the premiere of “Arrived in Good Harbor,” a commissioned work by composer Clifton J. Noble Jr., of Amherst. The work incorporates texts written by William Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth Colony.
Also on the program is Boston composer Alice Parker‘s (a ChoralQuest composer) “Melodious Accord,” a collection of “shape note” hymns with instrumental accompaniment. The work reflects the strong faith of the pilgrims.
Dates & Times:

Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET

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Beethoven, Hailstork and Montgomery
2021-10-23 20:30 - 21:30, 2021-10-22 11:00 - 12:00
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra announces its 2021/22 Ordway season — the 63rd concert season for the organization. The SPCO will perform music by numerous living composers and will present the premieres of six newly commissioned works, including Jessie Montgomery: Shift, Change, Turn and Variations (Midwest premiere, SPCO co-commission).
Date & Time:

Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11 AM CT
Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 8 PM CT

Location: Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul
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Program:
Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer): Saint Paul’s Blues (SPCO commission)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet
Led by SPCO Musicians
Alicia McQuerrey, flute

New Canons
2021-10-23 13:15 - 14:30
We usually try to ignore latency (the delay between live sound and transmitted sound) in virtual concerts…but what if it’s an integral part of the music?
Join American Composers Orchestra and Groupmuse Foundation for a hybrid in-person and virtual concert featuring works by two composers who experiment with latency and technology in their music, and three interactive works through which we welcome one another into a collective landscape in which all sounds become music.
Ray Lustig‘s Latency Canons calls for multiple string quartets and an orchestra to perform together while spread out across the world. Trevor New uses technology to manipulate latency for remote musicians in his newly commissioned work, Cohere. Pauline Oliveros‘ Environmental Dialogue invites us to hear and respond to sounds both within our own space and in those shared by participants near and far. All Possible Music by Chris Kallmyer is a collection of speculative scores that describe all of the music that could ever happen. A symphonious, surround-sound performance, Polyphonic Interlace by Raquel Acevedo Klein invites participants to travel amidst a sea of voices, emerging from several directions, as attendees are invited to play the piece’s musical tracks from their smartphones.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 1:15 PM CT | 2:15 PM ET
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Crocus Hill Ghost Story in New York Mills
2021-10-22 19:30 - 20:30
A collaboration between Zeitgeist, composer/flutist Julie Johnson and writer Cheri Johnson, Crocus Hill Ghost Story is a macabre tale of a house possessed, accompanied by a wildly evocative and colorful score performed live by Zeitgeist, Johnson, and KrisAnne Weiss, narrator. Inspired by the author’s experiences living in a St. Paul mansion during the 1980s, the work explores the complex relationship between two longtime friends and the evolution of their relationship as they experience a haunting. Suitable for teenagers through adult.
Tickets $10 adults, $5 students. Please pay at the door. Show begins 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7:00. COVID safety guidelines observed. Call 218-385-3339 with questions.
Date & Time: Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
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Danielle Eva Schwob - Out of the Tunnel at Fotografiska
2021-10-22 19:00
Friday, October 22nd 7:00 PM
“Out of the Tunnel,” is a live performance of works from composer Danielle Eva Schwob’s recently acclaimed album of the same name, featuring performances by Grammy-nominated ensemble PUBLIQuartet, harpist Ashley Jackson, cellist Laura Metcalf and more, set to cinematic visuals by acclaimed director and photographer James Mountford (BANKS, Ciara, Chance the Rapper).

Emerald City Music presents What You Are To Me
2021-10-22 08:00 - 17:00
After twenty months sharing chamber music on digital platforms, Emerald City Music, the Pacific Northwest home for eclectic, intimate, and vibrant classical chamber music experiences. presents What You Are To Me, the first Mainstage program in its sixth season. The program includes Martinu’s Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290 for Cello and Piano (1942) and Korngold’s Suite for Two Violins, Cello, and Left Hand Piano (1930) that was written for Paul Wittgenstein—a virtuoso pianist who lost his right arm during World War I. This work embodies the perseverance of the arts, similar to what the world has dealt with this past year, and coming back with live concerts.
Dedicated to its innovative programming that both honors the tradition of chamber music while expanding the genre’s boundary past common limits, ECM is proud to present the Seattle premiere of Patrick Castillo’s Winter Light (2020) for two violins, cello, and piano, co-commissioned by ECM.
Date & Time: Friday, October 22, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT
Program at a glance:
Martinu: Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290 for Cello and Piano (1942)
Patrick Castillo: Winter Light (2020) Seattle Premiere
Korngold: Suite for Two Violins, Cello, and Left Hand Piano, Op. 23 (1930)
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Robert Ashley's eL/Aficionado
2021-10-21 19:00 - 19:30
IN-PERSON PERFORMANCES (post-performance videos)
Dates & Times: Thursday – Saturday, October 21-23, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Written in 1987 and last performed in 1995, Robert Ashley’s eL/Aficionado (72 minutes) is an opera scored for four voices and a pre-recorded electronic orchestra. It is the trial of a mind or an imagination, of “every person” coming in contact with something foreign — the unknown. Mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Butcher will sing the lead role of the Agent, a part originally written for baritone Thomas Buckner. The other vocalists are Bonnie Lander, Paul Pinto, and Brian McCorkle. Music direction and sound design are by Tom Hamilton, and lighting and stage design are by David Moodey.
Although the opera’s mysterious mood owes much to John LeCarré’s world of espionage, it is not a spy story. The four scenes of the narrative are progressively concerned with events of an otherworldly nature while delving into the Agent’s different life stages, from the present time to her earliest memories. Unique to the opera is a vocal technique, in which Ashley assigns a defining pitch to each character. Guided by a harmony or specific set of alternate pitches, the singers are asked to improvise around the pitch and invent vocal inflections that express the intent or meaning of the text. The result is a hyper-dense score propelled by lush live voices, at times tense and suspenseful, at other times deeply lyrical and moving.
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Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space
2021-10-21 18:30 - 21:45
A newly commissioned work of music, voice, and video by women composers, with a libretto drawn from the words of the women who have traveled in outer space and seen our world from a dramatic new perspective, Astronautica will be performed by the women of Trio Triumphatrix with stunning NASA footage at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nemoy Thalia.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
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FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Twin Cities Hot Club
2021-10-21 12:00 - 13:00
The Twin Cities Hot Club (TCHC) represents Minnesota in the burgeoning revival of gypsy jazz originally popularized by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France. They recreate not only the famous la pompe that distinguishes this romantic brand of acoustic jazz but also gypsy bossanova, musette, bolero, and swing. TCHC perform this timeless deep-rooted music that is physical, alive and speaks directly to the heart. Composed by Abbie Betinis (a McKnight fellow and a ChoralQuest composer).
Date & Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 12 PM CT
Location: Landmark Center, Saint Paul, MN
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LECTURE II: THE HERITAGE OF THE SOCIALIST CITY: THE SPOILED SPLENDID
2021-10-21 11:00 - 13:00
Aida Miron & Sven Eggers
Second one of the two talks about entering the continuous foyer of architecture cosmos connecting urban fabric and landscapes, highwalks and underground, east and west, megastructures, cafes, socialist housing complexes and public thresholds.

Date & Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET
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Pacifica Quartet
2021-10-20 21:00 - 22:00
Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style and often-daring repertory choices, over the past twenty-five years the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Their program of thoughtfully selected works features string quartets written by American female composers during the ratification of the 19th Amendment, a masterpiece written by a pioneering female composer during the height of the pro-suffrage sentiment and a new work commissioned by the quartet from one of the most prominent female composers of our time. These works – representing women across continents and eras – cover a vast territory of different thoughts, styles, and perspectives.
Program

AMY BEACH: String Quartet, Op. 89 (1929)
SHULAMIT RAN: Quartet No. 3, “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory”
JENNIFER HIGDON (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) : Voices (1993) commissioned by the Pacifica Quartet
Intermission
FLORENCE PRICE: Quartet in G major, II. Andante moderato
FANNY MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in E-flat major, I. Adagio ma non trope, II. Sherzo. Allegretto, III. Romanze, IV. Allegro molto vivace

Date & Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 9 PM CT | 7 PM PT
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Todd Rewoldt & Lesi Mei
2021-10-20 18:00 - 19:00
Composers Concordance presents a concert event at Kostabi World featuring virtuosos Todd Rewoldt (alto saxophone) and Lesi Mei (piano) on a program including music by Lili Boulanger, Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, Carter Pann, Gene Pritsker, and Faye-Ellen Silverman.
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET
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Ariel’s Light
2021-10-19 18:30 - 19:30
Composed by native Clevelander Katia Bolotin, Ariel’s Light evokes the mystical beauty of the ancient city of Jerusalem. Its intermingling musical themes express humanity’s hope and yearning to actualize an era of peace, according to a news release.
The evening includes other original musical ensemble works by Chris Neiner, Alex Shapiro (a BandQuest composer) and Bolotin, and will be performed by musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music and vocalist Shawn Fink.
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Location: Acacia ballroom at Acacia Reservation at 26899 Cedar Road in Lyndhurst
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OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL 25: Moment’s Notice October 14-17, 2021 @ Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater, SF CA
2021-10-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-10-16 22:00 - 23:00, 2021-10-15 22:00 - 23:00
Heralded by NPR as a “Who’s Who of the avant-garde” and The Wire as “a forum for forward-thinking composers and an opportunity to hear performances of a uniformly challenging and rigorous nature,” San Francisco’s only international festival of avant-garde music returns to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary!
Other Minds Festival 25: “Moment’s Notice” will bring to the stage twenty-six of the greatest living artists working in the field of improvised music. Across four nights, OM 25 features a rare convergence of pioneering icons of free improvised music side-by-side with the emerging artists whose work is at once a continuance and an expansion of the jazz avant-garde.
Date & Time:

Thursday – Saturday, October 14-16, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT
Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT

Festival artists include MacArthur Genius Award winners Mary Halvorson and Tyshawn Sorey; Guggenheim Fellows Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer), Wadada Leo Smith, and Zeena Parkins; Doris Duke Performing Artist Award winners William Parker and Myra Melford; NEA Jazz Masters Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell; Berlin Prize Awardee Elliott Sharp; and several additional performers whose music is a vital expression of the traditions of improvisation.
Performances will cross disciplines to include dance, theater, and video including pianist/composer Myra Melford who will partner with Butoh dancer Oguri; William Parker’s dance/theater work, The Sky is Trembling featuring dancer Patricia Nicholson; Wadada Leo Smith’s Reflections and Meditations on Monk in collaboration with live video artist Jesse Gilbert; and Jen Shyu’s luminous Nine Doors, a theatrical work heralded by the New York Times as a “dizzying,” “imaginative ritual” sung in multiple languages and performed by Shyu on a variety of instruments.
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Celebrating the Friendship Between the Daytons and the Skrowaczewskis
2021-10-17 16:00 - 17:00
The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota will present Maestro Stan’s Fanfare for Ken, For Krystyna, and Bach Suite arrangement all for string quintet.
In addition, the artists of the CMSM will perform a work especially written for Judy Dayton by composer Steve Heitzeg (a McKnight fellow & past Continental Harmony composer) and the first grand String Sextet by Brahms.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 4 PM CT
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Celebrating Judy Dayton
2021-10-17 16:00 - 17:00
Chamber Music Society of Minnesota welcomes back in a program honoring the late Judy Dayton with works by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, a premiere by Steve Heitzeg (a Continental Harmony composer and McKnight fellow), and Brahms‘ Op. 18 sextet.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 4 PM CT
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American Indian Expressions
2021-10-16 19:30 - 20:30
Signature Symphony welcomes Oklahoma composer, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer) to the stage! Mr. Tate will discuss his composition style and Signature Symphony musicians will perform several of his pieces for the second Chamber Music Concert of the season.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
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Literature In Music
2021-10-16 18:00 - 19:00
This concert opens with the intoxicating, whirling Ascending Bird, co-written by American composer Colin Jacobsen and Persian composer Siamak Aghaei with Andrea Drury in Soprano. It is based on an ancient Persian parable of spiritual transcendence.
Mrs. Drury has performed as soloist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus as well as the Evansville Bach Singers. She has had a strong choral tradition and has had the privilege to sing under such renowned conductors as Robert Shaw, Paul Salamunovich, Rene Clausen (a ChoralQuest composer), Elmer Isler, Donald Bailey, Robert Young and Hillary Appfelstadt. She is also the conductor of the Trinity United Methodist Chancel Choir.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET
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HOPE LIVES HERE
2021-10-16 16:00 - 17:15
Join the VocalEssence Chorus, Ensemble Singers, and Singers Of This Age, Minnesota Dance Theatre, and a chamber instrumental ensemble in an exuberant return to Orchestra Hall. Reflect on our journey through the pandemic and be reassured in the promise of hope for the future as we experience a fresh interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” juxtaposed with Astor Piazzolla’s tango-infused tribute to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, “Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas” (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires). Traverse a range of emotions as you witness movement including original choreography featuring the Company of Minnesota Dance Theatre and VocalEssence Singers Of This Age. VocalEssence will also present the world premieres of Gabriel Kahane’s “We are the Saints,” a meditation on the natural world and our relationship to it commissioned by VocalEssence and Kyle Pederson’s “The Other Side.” Kahane and Pederson are exciting voices in classical composition.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 4 PM CT
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VÄNSKÄ AND BATIASHVILI
2021-10-15 20:00 - 22:30
What happens when the roles are swapped, and wild animals attend their hunter’s funeral? Find out in the first-ever Minnesota Orchestra performance of music by composer Donghoon Shin. Georgian-born German violinist Lisa Batiashvili brings Karol Szymanowki’s brilliant Violin Concerto to life and the Minnesota Orchestra revisits the Fourth Symphony by Carl Nielsen, a work that captures the essence of the human spirit.
Date & Time:

Thursday, October 14 at 11 AM CT
Friday, October 14, 2021 at 8 PM CT

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MN Sinfonia’s Thirty-Third Winter Concert Series
2021-10-15 19:00 - 20:00
Concert Program

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to the Italian in Algiers
Gao Hong (an ACF board member): Celebration

Note: World Premier and Recipient of the Minnesota Sinfonia Call for Scores with Support from the McKnight Foundation

Dmitry Shostakovich: The Little Ballerina
Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in c minor

Date & Time: Friday, October 15, 2021 at 7 PM CT
Location: First Covenant Church,1280 Arcade Street, St. Paul, 55106
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Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall
2021-10-15 17:00 - 18:00
Sphinx Organization invites you to attend the Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall Concert and Gala. This unique event combines a world-class performance with an exclusive Gala benefiting the Sphinx Organization’s transformative programs at the intersection of the arts and social justice. Consider making a gift today.
Sphinx Organization is working alongside Carnegie Hall to examine all aspects of the event experience. The health and safety of our audiences, artists, and staff remain our top priorities. To support this goal, and per Carnegie Hall’s rules: everyone coming to Carnegie Hall will be required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 with a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization in order to enter the building.
Date & Time: Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 6 PM ET
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