Due East: 7:00pm
Soap & Skin: 8:30pm
Fennesz:10pm

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PROGRAM:
Dylan Glatthorn: Joy, (Piano, 3 Voices)

Eric Lemmon: Little Respite for flute and (lightly) Prepared Piano (Flute, Prepared Piano)

Conrad Winslow: Nearly Resolved Chords, (String Quintet & Electronics)

Pedro da Silva: Concertino Bulería, (Guitar and Strings)

Noam Faingold: A Knife in the Water, (Cello, Violin)

Angélica Negrón: "Drawings for Meyoko", (alto flute, viola/banjo, harp & electronics)

Lucía Caruso: Canção de Sintra, (4 Voices & Chamber Orchestra)

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Innovative and versatile violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs selections from her newest release for E1 Records, “Seasons…dreams…” (out on September 28, 2010). Anchored by Beethoven’s “Spring” Violin Sonata, the album journeys through the seasons into reverie, and includes works by Debussy, Wagner, Fauré, Schnittke, and arrangements of standards such as Autumn in New York and Tenderly. Anne is joined on both the album and this performance by long-time collaborator, pianist Reiko Uchida.

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Internationally renowned pianist Marc-André Hamelin offers an intimate concert celebrating his newest Hyperion Records release – an album of his own compositions, “Marc-André Hamelin: Études.”

The evening also previews Hamelin’s stellar New York concert season, including December 2010 Carnegie Hall performances with Leif Ove Andsnes and the Risør Chamber Music Festival and his May 11, 2011 Piano Virtuoso Series recital in Zankel Hall.

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with
Theo Bleckmann [voice, arrangements & live electronic processing]
John Hollenbeck [percussion, crotales]
Skuli Sverrisson [bass]
Henry Hey [piano, keyboard and voice]
Caleb Burhans [electric violin, guitar and back-up vocals]

After tackling American maverick composer Charles Ives and being rewarded with a Grammy nomination for it, vocalist Theo Bleckmann now takes on the mysterious songbook of British pop recluse Kate Bush. This project goes beyond merely re-creating Kate's Bush music but taking it to even further realms of sound and interpretation. Joining him in this venture will be long-time collaborator percussionist John Hollenbeck, bassist Skuli Sverrisson and keyboardist Henry Hey and special guest, mult-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans on viola, guitar and back-up vocals.

“Refurbishing Kate Bush’s music can prove as intimidating as deconstructing Thelonious Monk, because there’s so much to wrap heart and head around. Her lyrics lean toward the esoteric and epigrammatic; she writes diaphanous arrangements and luring melodies that require octave leaps and her songs are often specific to their relative song-cycle albums. Vocalist Theo Bleckmann not only exhibits the necessary musicality to give Bush’s material meaningful makeovers, he shows the moxie to pull it off in a manner that doesn’t devolve in hagiography […] rendering songs with unalloyed sound matched with smartness [...] From start to finish, Bleckmann's explorations of his cult hero in the pop world provide the ideal vehicle for him to rise above his own cult status in modern jazz" - John Murph, DOWNBEAT

Theo Bleckmann. A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, GRAMMY NOMINATED and ECHO award recipient Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful, leading his work to be described as “from another planet” (New York Times), as “magical, futuristic,” (AllAboutJazz), “limitless” (Citypaper, Philadelphia) “transcendent” (Village Voice) and “brilliant” (New York Magazine).Bleckmann has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas standards, of Berlin Kabarett, and of popular “bar songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles Ives (with jazz/rock collective Kneebody), and his new acoustic Solos for Voice “I dwell in possibility”.Bleckmann has additionally collaborated with musicians and composers, including Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, John Hollenbeck, Sheila Jordan, Phil Kline, David Lang, Kirk Nurock, Ben Monder, Michael Tilson Thomas, Julia Wolfe, John Zorn, the Bang on a Can All-stars, and, most prominently, Meredith Monk, with whom Bleckmann worked as a core ensemble member for fifteen years. He has been interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and recently performed with Laurie Anderson on The David Letterman show. TheoBleckmann.com

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Program:
Stronghold, for 8 double basses (performed by Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band)

LAD, for 9 bagpipes (performed solo with accompanying pre-recorded bagpipes by Matthew Welch)

Dig Deep, for string quartet (performed by the JACK Quartet)


Description:

The Music of Julia Wolfe
with Jack Quartet, Hartt Bass Band, and Matthew Welch (bagpipes)

Julia Wolfe, cofounder of Bang on a Can, comes to LPR with three passionate works for 8 double basses, string quartet, and bagpipes. Wolfe's music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, Wolfe has "long inhabited a terrain of [her] own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock."

With Stronghold, for 8 double basses, Bang on a Can All-Star Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band become a mega bass with wild harmonic rolls, soaring tunes, and an earthquake of low strings. In the relentless and breathless Dig Deep the ferocious JACK Quartet whip all 16 strings up to a frenzy, and in LAD, for multiple bagpipes, piper Matthew Welch builds dense walls of reedy sound that turn to a cacophony of gigs and reels.


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Program:

music of:
Michael Gordon: new work with the Young People's Chorus of New York City(world premiere)

Maria Schneider: String Quartet No. 1 (New York premiere)

Bryce Dessner

Missy Mazzoli

Aleksandra Vrebalov (world premiere)

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Program

music of:
Michael Gordon: new work (New York premiere)

Clint Mansell

J.G. Thirlwell

Dan Visconti


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