Spring Has Sprung for Music
Spring Has Sprung for Music
We present Shakespeare songs to celebrate the quadricentennial of the bard's birth, as well as a portrait of eccentric Canadian composer Claude Vivier, and we celebrate Brazilian composer Felipe Lara with a portrait concert.
Québecois composer Claude Vivier remains one of the most enigmatic and little-performed composers of his generation. He studied with Stockhausen before traveling east to Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand, where he became immersed in the rhythms and traditional culture. New York City-based ensemble mise-en presents a portrait of the Canadian enigma, including several of his chamber works from the 1970s and 1980s.
Rebekah Heller performs Metafagote at Abrons Arts Center, New York.
New York New Music Ensemble returns to Americas Society for a program of new music from the hemisphere, including Diego Tedesco (Argentina), Javier Álvarez (Mexico), and Chilean composers Juan Manuel Quintero Saavedra, Pablo Galaz, and Miguel Chuaqui. Brazilian percussionist Eduardo Leandro will conduct.
NYNME performs Morton Feldman at Tenri Cultural Institute, 2014.
Music of Americas returns to Dixon Place in collaboration with Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón and SuperUber for the U.S. premiere of multimedia monodrama Inteligencia Artificial, which juxtaposes man's temporality with the simultaneous universes of memory, data processing, and the enduring legacy of artificial intelligence, effectively establishing a distance between between the organic and artificial.
