October - 21st Century Music

Kathleen Supové and Jed Distler. Jazz Gallery, New York, NY.October 15Works of JJ Hollingsworth, Max Simoncic, Thomas Goss, and AlexisAlrich, performed by Bay Brass. Old First, San Francisco, CA.October 16Left Coast Ensemble in Zhou Long's Spirit of the Chimes and ChenYi's Sound of the Five. Veterans Building, San Francisco, CA.John Zorn presents Music of Masada. Merkin Hall, New York, NY.October 17Cygnus Ensemble in Scelsi's Rucke di Gucke, L'Ame Ailée, Sori, andViolin and Cello Duo, Donatoni's Guitar Solo, and Morris's GuitarDuo. Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY.October 18Alea II presents champd, action. Stanford University, CA.Cogan's Aflame in Flight and Eight Poems of William Bronco:"Beyond" Version, Crawford's Diaphonic Suites No. 2 and No. 4, andEscot's Visione87. New England Conservatory, Boston, MA.October 19San Francisco Symphony in Britten's Four Sea Interludes from PeterGrimes and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10. Davies SymphonyHall, San Francisco, CA.NEC Wind Ensemble in Ligeti's Sechs Miniaturen für Blaser,Grainger's arrangements of Debussy's Bruyères and Pagodas, andSchoenberg's Theme and Variations. Jordan Hall, New EnglandConservatory, Boston, MA.October 20Throatsinging Competition Festival. First Congregational Church,Berkeley, CA. Through October 21.Musicians and Politics: Cultural Revolutions of the 20th Century.Williams Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA.Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark. BAM, New York, NY.October 21Hamza El Din, W.A. Mathieu, Joan Jeanrenaud, Terry Riley, andDevi Mathieu. Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA.Ursula Oppens and Aki Takahashi in Richard Teitelbaum's ...dalNiente..., Ligeti's Three Pieces, and Lutoslawski's Variations on aTheme by Paganini. Mills College, Oakland, CA.Eugene Kim in Ligeti's Sonata for Solo Cello. Williams Hall, NewEngland Conservatory, Boston, MAOctober 22José Maceda. Mills College, Oakland, CA.October 2377th birthday of Ned Rorem.Earplay performs Torakai's Fuse VII, Blumberg's Daedalus andIcarus, Mamlok's Polarities, Berger's in this month are simplesgathered, Dugger's On Spring's Eve, and Eckardt's Echoes' WhiteVeil. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.October 24Patti Monson in Bresnick's Conspiracies, Dick's Afterlight, Higdon'sRapid Fire, Meltzer's Rumors, and Reich's Vermont Counterpoint.Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY.October 25San Francisco Symphony in Holst's The Planets and Messiaen's LesOffrandes Oubliées. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.NEC Chorus in Orff's Carmina Burana. Jordan Hall, New EnglandConservatory, Boston, MA.October 26Core Ensemble in Kernis's Air for Cello and Piano and the premiereof Baley's New Trio. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.All-Copland Piano Recital. Williams Hall, New EnglandConservatory of Music, Boston, MA.NEC Jordan Winds in Jones's Sketches from Middle Earth, and theStucky arrangement of Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary.Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA.October 2773rd birthday of Dominick Argento.New Music 101 presents Stockhausen's Lucifer's Dream and Kagel'sOral Treason: A History of the Devil. College of Marin, Kentfield,CA.Aaron Kernis's Symphony No. 2 performed by the LouisvilleOrchestra. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.Absolute Ensemble in Scratchband, music of The Beatles, JimiHendrix, John Adams, Miles Davis, Steve Reich, and Marc AnthonyTurnage. Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, NY.October 28The American Chamber Ensemble in Krein's Esquisses Hebraique,Engel's First Suite, Weinberg's Grandmother's Stories and TheMaypole, Schiff's Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool, Shostakovich'sTrio in E Minor, and Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes. WeillRecital Hall, New York, NY.28