Louis Andriessen performs at Carnegie Hall - New York, NY (April 19 - May 10, 2010)

April 9 - May 10, 2010

The maximalist Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen, creates works drawn from his background in both jazz and avant-garde composition. These works can be “narrative … anecdotes … [or] sound hallucinations,” according to the composer. Andriessen has curated eight performances as the 2009-2010 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair including the New York premieres of Symphony of Open Strings and Andriessen’s opera La Commedia, performed in concert; the US premiere of Life (with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam); performances of De Staat, Zilver, and Dances; and Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls, a series of late-night improvisatory concerts.

Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM

American Composers Orchestra

Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor

William Anderson, Electric Guitar

John Korsrud, Trumpet

LOUIS & THE YOUNG AMERICANS

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Symphony for Open Strings (NY Premiere)

MISSY MAZZOLI These Worlds in Us (World Premiere, new orchestration)

MICHAEL FIDAY Gonzo Variations – Hunter S. Thompson in memoriam (World Premiere)

JOHN KORSRUD Come to the Dark Side (World Premiere)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM

Maurice Chestnut, Tap Dancer

Iva Bittová, Violin/Vocals

Programmed by Louis Andriessen, this double bill offers high-voltage tapping and singing—all improvised, first by star American tap dancer Maurice Chestnut, followed by Czech singer-violinist Iva Bittová, whose unique vocal and instrumental technique have gained her international recognition.

Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Asko Schoenberg

Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor

Claron McFadden, Voice

Jeroen Willems, Voice

Marcel Beekman, Voice

Cristina Zavalloni, Voice

Synergy Vocals

The Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Dianne Berkun, Director

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN La Commedia (concert version, NY Premiere)

Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Commedia combines “complexity, intellectualism, horror, beauty, multi-layering, allusions, historical and mythological references, and, above all, irony,” says Andriessen.

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with Louis Andriessen in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.

Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM

Asko Schoenberg

Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor

Barbara Sukowa, Voice

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Zilver

MARTIJN PADDING First Harmonium Concerto

REINBERT DE LEEUW Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (In the Lovely Month of May)

Friday, April 16, 2010 at 9:30 PM

Greetje Bijma, Voice

Louis Andriessen, Piano

Evan Parker, Saxophone

A feast of surprises, as Louis Andriessen continues his series of unpredictable improvisatory concerts. This double bill features two striking performers who both exploit every possibility of their instruments: British saxophonist Evan Parker and Dutch singer Greetje Bijma, who performs with Andriessen on piano.

Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM

Commentary by Louis Andriessen

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano

Heleen Hulst, Violin

Gerard Bouwhuis, Piano

Bang on a Can All-Stars

The Zankel Band

•• Anna Elashvili, Violin

•• Yonah Zur, Violin

•• Meena Bhasin, Viola

•• Claire Bryant, Cello

•• Kristoffer Saebo, Bass

•• Molly Morkoski, Piano

•• Bridget Kibbey, Harp

•• Eric Poland, Percussion

Alan Pierson, Conductor

Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator

MAKING MUSIC: LOUIS ANDRIESSEN

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Dances

MARTIJN PADDING Mordants

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Life (with video by Marijke van Warmerdam) (US Premiere)

Some particularly imaginative musicians gather to perform works by Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair, as well as music by one of his pupils. Andriessen’s Dances are rapt and radiant, and his new work—with video—promises to be both a musical and theatrical treat.

Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM

Ernst Reijseger, Cello

Cristina Zavalloni, Voice

Andrea Rebaudengo, Piano

This double bill features a versatile cellist "who can play anything," according to director Werner Herzog, for whom Reijseger has composed four film scores. On the program’s second half, a wildly theatrical singer who is also featured in Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia at Carnegie Hall on April 15.

Monday, May 10, 2010 at 6:00 PM

Ensemble ACJW

John Adams, Conductor

Jeremy Denk, Piano

JOHN ADAMS Son of Chamber Symphony

IGOR STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN De Staat

Tickets

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
P: 212-247-7800
http://www.carnegiehall.org/

The Music of Louis Andriessen at Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY (April 18, 2010)

April 18, 2010

Doors open: 6:30 PM
Show time: 7 PM


ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, will perform a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge entitled The Music of Louis Andriessen, presented by (Le) Poisson Rouge and Carnegie Hall as part of a month-long celebration of the eminent Dutch composer’s music and his 70th birthday. The concert will be preceded by a discussion with the composer and Robert Hurwitz, president of Andriessen's longtime U.S. record label, Nonesuch Records.


The program will include a screening of Peter Greenaway’s 1991 30-minute video film, M is for Man, Music, Mozart with a live performance of Andriessen’s score, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky and featuring soprano soloist Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie. In addition, pianist Eric Huebner will perform three solo works, Image de Moreau, Trois Pieces, and Trepidus. Andriessen’s Facing Death, for amplified string quartet, completes the program.


M is for Man, Music, Mozart was made for television by Greenaway and Andriessen (who would later collaborate on the operas Writing to Vermeer and ROSA, The death of a composer), in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death. It features four nude dancers representing the Gods, and a singer who sings a list of objects starting with each letter of the alphabet. When the letter “M” is reached, the Gods choose to create Man, then Music – and in order to have Perfect Music – Mozart.


Originally written for the Kronos Quartet in 1990, Facing Death for amplified string quartet is based on the music of Charlie Parker. The composer writes, “Be-bop had been an important influence on my musical development when I was young, and I decided to do something with this music from my youth . . . I literally quote fragments of Charlie Parker improvisations. I also quote one original melody: Orinthology (which is based on How High the Moon). The 7th and 8th bar of Orinthology became an important motif in the piece.”


ACME players for April 18 include Yuki Numata, violin; Ben Russell, violin; Caitlin Lynch, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello; Kelli Kathman, flute and piccolo; Patrick Posey, soprano saxophone; Luke Gay, tenor saxophone; Matt Marks, horn; Gareth Flowers, trumpet; Nathan Botts, trumpet; Jeff Missal, trumpet; John Vera; trombone; Michael Engstrom, trombone; Will Lang, bass trombone; and Logan Coale, bass.


This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.


Artists


The Music of Louis Andriessen


Born the Netherlands in 1939, Louis Andriessen grew up in a musical family – his father, uncle, and brother were all composers – and studied with Luciano Berio, drawing from a diverse range of influences from Stravinsky to jazz, funk, and rhythm and blues. Through his varied background in both jazz and avant-garde composition, as well as his rejection of traditional musical forms, Andriessen’s music has often been viewed to be a revolt against the legacy of German Romanticism. He has developed a style employing elemental harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic materials, as well as distinctive – if not idiosyncratic – instrumentation (having never written a work for a traditional symphony orchestra). Through music Andriessen has explored such seemingly disparate subjects as politics, time, velocity, matter, and mortality. It is this openness and willingness to reach beyond the traditionally accepted range of music that has made Andriessen a catalyst and provocateur in the Dutch contemporary arts scene. Andriessen’s work as a composer, author, pianist, firebrand, and teacher over the past 40 years has established him as a central figure in the international new music scene and as the most significant composer working in the Netherlands today. He was named Musical America’s Composer of the Year for 2010. Louis Andriessen is published by Boosey & Hawkes.


pre-concert discussion with Louis Andriessen and Robert Hurwitz of Nonesuch Records
musical accompaniment of Peter Greenaway's film "M is for Man, Music Mozart"


Tickets
General admission $ 15


Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
P: 212-505-3474
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/

STEIM performs at the Japan Society - New York, NY (May 7-8, 2010)

© Christine Sehnaoui.


May 7-8, 2010


STEIM, the Amsterdam-based music laboratory of experiments in electronic sound and instruments, lands in New Amsterdam! For 40 years now, STEIM (Studio of Electro-Instrumental Music) has fostered international collaborations between composers, musicians, engineers, installation artists, DJs and VJs and has been a breeding ground for the creation of high- and low-tech musical tools for live performance.


For this performance, STEIM’s Artistic Director, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, has assembled a lineup of groundbreaking international artists from STEIM’s roster, including:


• Yutaka Makino (Japan/Netherlands): A composer and technical wizard who has pioneered the blending of music, sculpture and architecture
• ABATTOIR: A duo comprised of Audrey Chen (U.S.)—vocalist, cellist and analog electronics musician/composer and Robert van Heumen (Netherlands)—a composer and tinkerer equally at home with a keyboard or a joystick
• A collaboration between digital media composer Yannis Kyriakides (Netherlands) and guitarist Andy Moor (U.K./ Netherlands) of the legendary Dutch punk band The Ex
• dj sniff (Japan/Netherlands), a.k.a. Takuro Mizuta Lippit—turntable musician and Artistic Director of STEIM


Tickets
$18/$15 Japan Society Members
2-day pass (includes STEIM artist talk and demo)
$25/$20 Japan Society Members


Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
P: 212-832-1155


http://www.japansociety.org/

Robert Steijn performs at Danspace Project - New York, NY (April 15-17, 2010)

April 15-17, 2010 at 8PM

In April, Danspace Project return for the final performance of Ralph Lemon' s i get lost Platform, Robert and Maria, created and performed by Maria Hassabi and Robert Steijn. "You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes, I do, and this sight makes our dance."

Maria Hassabi has been performing shows since childhood, and Robert Steijn began dancing rituals at forty-five. In this first duet they dance together, they ask themselves where outside differences meet inside similarities. They desperately want to know when opposites become the two sides of the same coin, called love.

PLATFORMS 2010 is a component of Danspace Project's Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW2), a multi-year commissioning and presentation research and development project which has received major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of Platforms 2010, Robert and Maria is made possible with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Tickets

$18/$12 for members

Danspace Project

131 East 10th Street

New York, NY 10003

http://www.danspaceproject.org/