This looks super-cool: a day-long retrospective of the films of Lee Breuer, including a showing of Dollhouse (for which I wrote the music) at 6:30 pm.
Upcoming Events | The Films of Lee Breuer. Mabou Mines Dollhouse & Others.
Category: performances
Play Like a Girl in NYC!
Play Like a Girl will receive its New York premiere on Sunday 8 February at the DiMenna Center. Salome Scheidegger will play three variations of the 8 factorial possibilities, and I can’t wait to hear her do it.
See you there, I hope!
I’m heading to San Francisco tomorrow where I will meet up with Giacomo Fiore and Mary Rowell to put together a bit of RiverProject music for the New Music Gathering, Thursday evening at 7 pm. really looking forward to seeing old and new friends!
Nicholas Horvath premieres Enough Holes
The French pianist Nicholas Horvath is performing the complete Piano Etudes of Philip Glass at Weill Hall on 9 January, alongside a selection of homages. I wrote Enough Holes for the project, and it will be premiered on this concert. Should be a very cool evening of piano music!
Vermont Symphony Orchestra/Beglarian/Rimsky-Korsakoff/Tchaikovsky
Vermont Symphony Orchestra/Beglarian/Rimsky-Korsakoff/Tchaikovsky.
You can hear the premiere of No Delight in Sacrifice, a small piece responding to The Rite of Spring, at the above link.
A Monthly Series of New Music From Avant Media – NYTimes.com
A Monthly Series of New Music From Avant Media – NYTimes.com.
A commemoration of what would have been John Cage’s 102nd birthday will open the season, with a roster of new-music stars (among them Eve Beglarian, Vicky Chow, Nick Hallett, John King and Mr. Gibson) performing Cage’s 1970 “Song Books†(Sept. 5).Â
Hermitage presents reading of developing new musical | May 15, 2014 | Jay Handelman | Arts Sarasota
Waiting for Billy Floyd @ Miller Theater
The League-ISCM is playing Waiting for Billy Floyd on Monday 17 June up at Miller Theater, which should be very cool. They’re doing the images as well, so that’ll be a nice thing. Mississippi in upper Manhattan!
perpetual happiness
Tony de Mare will be playing some of the Sondheim reworkings he’s commissioned on a concert in NYC on Sunday 12 May at 3 pm. It’s also being streamed, so you can check it out from wherever you are. My piece is a response to Happiness from Passion. It’s part of the WONDERFUL Tribeca New Music Festival: check out the whole series of concerts!
totally lesbo songs…
this Friday at 7:30, the excellent Mary Mackenzie will be singing three songs from the song cycle I wrote a few years ago with the composer Phil Kline called The Story of B. Click the image below for more info and tickets:
Firehouse Festival
Mary Rowell and I will be participating in the Firehouse Festival at Sandra Sprecher’s amazing space on Saturday night 27 April. We’ll be doing some stuff you’ve never heard, along with some favorites. The whole lineup looks like big fun! Click the poster for more info and tickets.
Building the Bird Mound premieres Thursday
On Thursday 18 April, the Voices of Ascension under the direction of Dennis Keene will be premiering a new commission for chorus and organ called Building the Bird Mound. Click the photo for tickets and more information:
Building the Bird Mound was inspired by a visit I made to Poverty Point, a pre-historic mound complex in Northeast Louisiana, while traveling down the length of the Mississippi River by kayak and bicycle in the fall of 2009. Poverty Point, which was built sometime between 3500 and 1500 B.C. is structured as a series of long concentric half-circles that radiate from a center mound which is in the shape of a winged bird. When I stood in the center of the mound that November afternoon, I had a glimpse of something very powerful, a sense of being sheltered — held — in the body of this giant effigy bird, and close to the ghosts of all the people who had scrabbled in the dirt to pile up and carry soil, basket by basket, to build this sacred place. I knew then that I wanted to write a piece of music about this place and the people who built it, and Building the Bird Mound is the result of that afternoon’s inspiration.
24 Jan at the Old Stone House
on the road again
Mary Rowell and I as BRIM are doing a show at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS on 11 October as part of a little mini-tour we’ve set up. More info here. We’ll be traveling along the Ohio River to join the Mississippi, really looking forward to getting out on the road again!
Archives of Exile
If you happen to be in Yorkshire in July, definitely check this out, should be very fun!
Village Voice talks of Book of Days
from The Village Voice, 1 June 2011
Wednesday, June 1 (tonight!); 8 p.m.
Eve Beglarian: Songs from A Book of DaysFor over a decade, Beglarian has been working on this song cycle, which she describes “‘mulling over’ pieces, made in the spirit of commonplace books, collections of found thought that please me, and of medieval books of days.”
Whether she’s pivoting off Plato to create some early electro-percussive damage (circa 1985) that could’ve schooled Reznor, or turning Whitman’s “We Two” into a lovely duo for herself and Corey Dargel, she’s as intellectually erudite as she is deeply intuitive.
(Where else to hear Beglarian: On the New World-issued Tell the Birds CD, as well as the compilation Lesbian American Composers.)
eve at the stone 6/1
then, next Wednesday 1 June, again at the Stone, I myself will be performing with fabulous guests Lydia Van Dreel, Mary Rowell, and Megan Schubert. works include the first performance of EinHorn for horn and electronics, and lots of other good stuff. Hope to see you there!
ana at the stone 5/25
this coming Wednesday, 25 May, Ana Milosavljevic is doing a show at the Stone which will include a couple of pieces from me, including I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long. Go here for more details.
Two Nights on the River
Here‘s a happy-making preview of the two pieces I’ve written for the Sarasota Orchestra players as part of the Greenfield Prize.
my feelings now: miami or nyc?
take your pick!
if you’re in Miami Friday night 2/25, you can hear My Feelings Now on this show:
and/or if you’re in NYC Saturday night 2/26, you can hear it on this one:
Worried Now with Ana at LPR
Ana and I will be playing I’m Worried Now, But I Won’t Be Worried Long this coming Wednesday at 6:30 pm, on a show that will also include music by Ana herself, with choreography by Takehiro Ueyama. Should be a fun show; here’s a link:
Musiqa plays Not Sad
In and Out of the Game
I have a new piece for multiple trombones up here, it’s called In and Out of the Game, and it’s another piece for the River Project. You can watch and listen to the video version (click for fullscreen):
Dither at Abrons
Dither is playing The Garden of Cyrus Saturday night at Abrons Arts Center, along with music by Nick Didkovsky, Ted Hearne, and Tristan Perich, and sponsorship by the Brooklyn Brewery. Should be a great way to spend one of these short dark holy evenings, no?!
BRIM debut at Roulette
We’re doing a first public showing of some of the River Project music at Roulette on 19 October 2010, joined by guest pianist Lara Downes and the fabulous trombone quartet, Guidonian Hand. Should be a festive event!