Monday, April 26 2010, 8 pm

** Note: this program has been changed due to complications arising from the recent flight delays.

Collide-o-Scope Music Concert I
Natural Selection (1996-present), (piano), Edmund Campion
Chez Monk (2008), (piano), Stephen Gorbos
On the Whiteness of the Whale (2006/9), (bass clarinet), Stephen Gorbos
Sorrows with the Moon (2002), (clarinet), Stephen Gorbos
Christopher Bailey: Harvest Kitchen IIA (2010)
Milton Babbitt: The Old Order Changeth (1998)
Sonorous Body (2008), (clarinet), Liza Lim
Music of Changes (Books I and II) (1951), (piano) John Cage
Roulette (Concert Space), 20 Greene St., New York

This concert will feature video projections of dynamically assembled video and text montages

Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 8 PM

Collide-o-scope Music Concert II
Etudes Australes Bk I, nos. I-IV(1974-75, (piano), John Cage
Dual (1980), (piano, cello), Milton Babbitt
Four Lauds (1984-2001) (selections), (violin), Elliot Carter
Sonorous Body (2008), (clarinet), Liza Lim
SLIII Part II (1999/2008) (clarinet, cello, piano), Christopher Bailey
Two6 (1992), (violin and piano) John Cage
The Player's Theater, 115 MacDougal St. New York

This concert will feature video projections of a new digital photo exhibition curated by Michael Mazzeo, director of the Michael Mazzeo Gallery


Past Programs

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Children's Concert
JS Bach — French Suite no. 6
Debussy — Children's Corner
Debussy — Etudes
Stephen Gorbos — Chez Monk(2008) **premiere
Christopher Bailey — Meditation 3(2007) **premiere
Ravel — Gaspard de la Nuit
Monmouth Conservatory, 50 White St., Red Bank, NJ 4 pm

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Japan US Music Perspectives
New ensemble works by Christopher Bailey, Ron Smith, Hiroya Miura, and Miyuki Ito
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St Manhattan 4:00 pm

Wednesday April 15, 2009

Solo Recital
Stephen Gorbos, Chez Monk
Christopher Bailey, Meditation 3
Jason Eckardt, Tango Clandestino
Milton Babbitt, Allegro Penseroso
Babbitt, About Time
Babbitt, The Old Order Changeth
Babbitt, My Complements to Roger
Babbitt, Canonical Form

Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., Washington, DC 8:00 pm

Wedenesday, April 22, 2009

"Ours is a brand new world of allatonceness": Milton Babbitt and music in the electronic age
Lecture/demonstration
The Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA 5:00 pm

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Piano Music of Milton Babbitt
Allegro Penseroso
Semi-Simple Variations
Minute Waltz
About Time
The Old Order Changeth
My Complements to Roger
Canonical Form

3 Compositions for Piano
The Church of St. John The Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin St., Boston, MA 8:00 pm

Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Complete Piano Music of Milton Babbitt, Concert I
Allegro Penseroso
It Takes 12 to Tango
Partitions
Post-Partitions
Tableaux
Preludes, Interludes, and Postlude
Minute Waltz
Semi-Simple Variations
Tutte Le Corde

Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., Manhattan 8:00 pm

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Complete Piano Music of Milton Babbitt, Concert II
Canonical Form
My Complements to Roger
("time series")
Playing for Time
Overtime
About Time
Emblems
Lagniappe
The Old Order Changeth
3 Compositions for Piano

Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., Manhattan 8:00 pm

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

"ours is a brand new world of allatonceness" — psychedelics, media theory, and music in the electronic age.
Performance and Lecture
Donald Martino — Fantasies & Impromptus (selections)
Yotam Haber — Etudes
Milton Babbitt — Overtime
Milton Babbitt — Tableaux
Milton Babbitt — Post-Partitions
Mannes School of Music, 150 West 85th St, Manhattan 5 pm

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Brahms in the Contemporary Landscape — Concert I
"From the Notebooks of the Young Kreisler"
Johannes Brahms — Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Opus 9
Brahms, Ballades — Opus 10
Brahms — Klavierstücke, Opus 119
Milton Babbitt —Tutte Le Corde (1994)
Frederic Rzewski — 4 Piano Pieces (1977)
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., Manhattan 8:00 pm
pre-concert discussion with Styra Avins at 7 pm

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Brahms in the Contemporary Landscape — Concert II
"Musical Ambiguities"
Johannes Brahms — Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel , Opus 24
Brahms — Klavierstücke , Opus 116
David Rakowski — from Etudes vol. 6 (2003)
Zipper Tango
Eight Misbehavin'
Cell Division
Donald Martino — Fantasies and Impromptus (1978)
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., Manhattan 8:00 pm
pre-concert discussion with Walter Frisch at 7 pm

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Brahms in the Contemporary Landscape — Concert III
"Contemporary Directions"
Johannes Brahms — Variations on an Original Theme , Opus 21, no.1
Brahms — Klavierstücke , Opus 76
Michael Klingbeil — Monoliths and Interludes (2003)
Yotam Haber — New Works TBA (*World Premieres)
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., Manhattan 8:00 pm
pre-concert discussion with Michael Klingbeil and Yotam Haber at 7 pm