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Leo Brouwer, Lennon McCartney, Morton Feldman, and Stefan Wolpe

3 September 2025
—->The Village Trip’s Wolpe-Albers-Brouwer-Feldman Weekend<—- With Thomas Flippin, David Glaser, Ben Verdery, Kentner Anderson, Robert Morris and much more. The performance will feature Leo Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape With …
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Homegrown American Expressionism

16 June 2025
The work discussed here will be released in a matter of months. Here’s the story of a brilliant, talented composer with a heavy metal background tasked with writing an Agnus Dei for some group of amiable, good natured vocalists. The work turned …
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Spectral Resources

8 November 2024
Jonathan Cross: ‘The spectral adventure has allowed the renovation, without imitation of the foundations of occidental music, because it is not a closed technique but an attitude.’11 Subsequent composers such as Marc-Andre ́ Dalbavie and Philippe …
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Music and Oulipo

17 May 2024
October 10 7:30 at Loft393 there will a preview of Trevor Bača-Paul Griffiths’ when the time comes featuring actress Nancy Robinette, director Joy Zinoman and Cygnus. This project is a first in theater, where the musicians as musicians are …
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Joel Suben Where All the Waters Meet

22 April 2024
Suben Memorial Scorca Hall starting at 11 AM on May 4 330 7th Ave 7th Floor New York, NY 10001 When I was studying composition with Joel Suben, he avowed a deep love of Carter. And he expressed a reservation. Sometimes Carter “hangs his …
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Lachenmann

20 April 2024
Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt presents 21st-Century Wanderers: Jonathan HARVEY / Helmut LACHENMANN Manuel LAUFER, piano Dorothea HAYLEY, soprano Friday, December 13 (2021? during Covid?) at 8 pm Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East I …
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De Staat; A Tale of Two Synecdoches

16 March 2024
depicted: Adalbert Stifter Intro to Stifter’s *Many Colored Stones* A Tale of Two Synecdoches I met Louis Andriessen when I played De Staadt with NY Phil under Gunther Schuller. David Starobin was the other guitarist and Scott Kuney played bass. …
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Emil Awad: Cognitive and Behaviorist in Music

11 February 2024
The brilliant and enterprising composer Emil Awad is the founder and director of the Festival Camarata 21 at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many of us have participated – Mario Davidovsky, Robert Pollock, Suzanne Farrin, …
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