First Annual New Music Bake Sale and Concert in Brooklyn

By -

Performances by So Percussion, Lisa Moore & Martin Bresnick, Lukas Ligeti, Newspeak, ACME, JACK Quartet, Dither, loadbang ensemble, & Ensemble de Sade

On Friday, April 17, 2009 from 7 pm to midnight, the First Annual New Music Bake Sale, presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, will take over the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights (124 Henry Street at Clark Street). This delicious event is a fundraiser and showcase for music organizations of all kinds, with each group supplying and staffing their own table of bountiful baked goods, CDs, buttons, T-shirts, bags, stickers, silent auction items, and other exclusive merchandise.

The evening will feature musical performances by So Percussion, Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick, Lukas Ligeti, Newspeak, ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), JACK Quartet, Dither, loadbang ensemble, and Ensemble de Sade. Other organizations participating in the Bake Sale but not performing include New Amsterdam Records, AME (American Modern Ensemble), TRANSIT, Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink, Hotel St. George Press, MATA Festival, and more.

This event is intended not only to raise funds, but to build community and camaraderie within the diverse New York new music culture, and is run by a committee of composers and performers from Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade.

Co-organizer Mellissa Hughes explains, “The New Music Bake Sale takes its inspiration from the days when every Rice Krispie treat sold in the high school cafeteria brought you one step closer to those über sexy marching band uniforms. We also recognize that in times like the present, profits are measured not only in monetary terms, but in the continual building of community. That is the spirit in which we seek to bring together what is an incredibly diverse new music culture in this city – from classical chamber ensemble to rock band.”

The New Music Bake Sale will include (in addition to plenty of revelry, plus a “New Music Purity Test” administered by Ensemble de Sade) the US premiere of Jeff Myers’ dopamine by the JACK Quartet; the world premieres of a new work by Alex Temple and Matt Marks’ The Exaltation of Grace Budd performed by Ensemble de Sade; So Percussion in selections from their ongoing project City Music, an exploration of urban environments and sonic meditations; selections from Kurt Schwitters’ Ur Sonate featuring Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick; the world premieres of Dmitri Tymoczko’s Let The Bodies Hit The Floor and William Brittelle’s Pegasis in Alcatraz performed by Newspeak; loadbang ensemble in David Lang’s Waitin’ for My Man and works by John Cage; Dither in Lainie Fefferman’s Tongue of Thorns, Jascha Narveson’s Vectors, and Mark Stewart’s Speedy Feety; and ACME in the New York premiere of Caleb Burhans’ Trio.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Role of Music in Opera

By -
There are numerous books on the topic, and every composer, librettist, director, singer and audience member has their opinion as to what role the music should play in an opera. In a play without music, the words ought to support the meaning behind a character's actions. However, in the case of action movies, often times the action is what tells the story and there aren't words, just images to forward the plot. We might hear music to accompany action, build tension, but the action tells the story. Musicals tend to speak until the emotion of the moment just "has" to break out in song - unless it's something like "Mama Mia" where the dialog is the rails we travel on between songs; the songs themselves, written before the concept of the musical, are the focus of the production, while the story is secondary. Operas are a different beast. The music provides emotion to the words spoken, but it also plays the role of ambience when there is only action. In ...
Read more

Episode 210b: Joyeuse le départ

By -
Image
Podcast:  Play in new window  |  Download Subscribe:  Apple Podcasts  |  Android  |  Google Play  |  Stitcher  |  TuneIn  |  RSS Provost Cunningham has Transmigrated, but to where! What is Dr Sage going to do with his body? And how can she bring home her friends, Abigail and Erasmus, without also bring home Cunningham? What are they going to say when they find the “skeleton” she’s hiding in her closet? Cast: Eddie Louise Clark  as Dr Sage Chip Clark  as Professor Savant Justin Bremer  as the Narrator Emily Riley Piatt  as Abigail Entwhistle, Calypso & Dean Stewart Written by  Eddie Louise Theme music by  Unwoman Sound Design by  Chip Michael
Read more

Teaching Composition – What are we trying to achieve

By -
In the process of learning composition I have spent time with a number of instructors who have encouraged me to write twelve-tone, pitch-class, electro-acoustic and other forms of experimental techniques. No matter how much I might understand and appreciate the work of other composers in the genres, these are not forms of music I resonate with. They are simply not forms of music I listen to and I struggle with the idea of writing them. However, in a Master Class by Libby Larsen she made the comment, “Learn them all, because all forms of music have something to offer.” This I very much agree. There are elements of each of the above mentioned forms (and others) that I do resonate with. Berg’s Violin Concerto is a beautiful twelve-tone work, although it is possible to look at numerous sections of the music with a “tonal” analysis. Another composer friend, Gary Bachlund commented that using these techniques can narrow the choices for how to compose a piece of work. If you look at ...
Read more