ANNIVERSARIES FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 2014
1. WINGJAMMER
Composers-Play-Composers Marathon - Wingjammer
A musical feast for the 50th anniversary of Buffalo Wings.
26 composer-performers:
Amigo, Arnold, Babin, Balliett, Bechtold, Brashear, Butler, Cooper, Drew, Getter, Grant, Hackl, Kampela, Llinas, Meyer, Nazaykinskaya, Nechushtan, Palkowski, Paranosic, Pritsker, Rauh, Salles, Seely, Sussman, Voisey, Wallace
Saturday, Nov. 29th at 8pm
121 Ludlow St., 2nd floor
4. SWEET CONCORDANT STRINGS
• voice of Edward Simpson, R.I.P.
(May 4, 1927 - May 25, 2014)
Sweet Concordant Strings
with the CompCord String Orchestra
In observance of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, The CCCO will present a concert of music inspired by writings of the great poet.
Composers:: Cooper, Gotay, Hakobyan, Luening, Paranosic, Pehrson, Pritsker, Soldier/Cortes.
Soloists:
Margaret Lancaster - flute
Franz Hackl - trumpet
Karen Hakobyan - piano
Eleanor Taylor - soprano
Charles Coleman - baritone
Pedro Cortes - flamenco guitar
Conductors: Thomas Carlo Bo & Arkady Leytush
Saturday, Dec. 6th at 8pm
West-Park Presbyterian Church
165 W 86th St
2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. WEBERN
(3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945)
'Happy Birthday Mr. Webern'
(3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945)
Pianists: Vicky Chow, Julia Den Boer & Derin Oge
Composers: Andy Akiho, Necil Kazim Akses, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Henri Dutilleux, Aaron Helgeson, Egemen Kesikli, Lukas Ligeti, Alon Nechushtan, Gene Pritsker, Anton Webern
On Wednesday Dec. 3rd, in honor of Anton Webern's 131st birthday, we present a concert with three spectacular pianists, each performing a twenty-minute solo program that will feature a Webern composition. The three pianists will join for the finale to perform the Composers Concordance 'Webern Suite' for three pianos.
Wednesday, Dec. 3rd at 8pm
Klavierhaus
119 W 56th Street
3. SAXTRAVAGANZA
Saxtravaganza
Celebrating Adolphe Sax (1814-1894)
inventor of the saxophone
Saxophonists: Nick Biello and Snap Saxophone Quartet, Paul Carlon, Erin Rogers, Daniel Schnyder, Eric Neveloff, Roxy Coss, Andrew Hadro, Hernan Jay Rodriguez, James Stewart . With special guest, body percussionist Max Pollak
Composers: Patrick Hardish, Nick Biello, Daniel Schnyder, Paul Carlon, Dan Cooper,Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker.
Thursday, Dec. 4th at 8pm
Goddard Riverside - Bernie Wohl Center
647 Columbus Avenue, NYC
Equal Temperament - The Headphones Concerts
Piano tuner: Daniel Levitan
Composers/performers:
Cooper, Paranosic, Pritsker
Imagine a piano tuner, 30 headphones, three composers with various computers and electronic effects, and you will begin to get an idea of this event is about.
Saluting the 430th anniversary of Equal Temperament.
"I have founded a new system. I establish one foot as the number from which the others are to be extracted, and using proportions I extract them. Altogether one has to find the exact figures for the pitch-pipers in twelve operations."
- Zhu Zaiyu, 1584
Sunday, Dec. 7th at 7pm
Gallery MC
549 W 52nd St
5. EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
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