Kronos Presents: Kronos Festival 2016 Explorer Series - Opening Night!
The Kronos Festival launches with OPENING NIGHT!, featuring a kaleidoscope of music inspired by world events and culture.
The Kronos Festival launches with OPENING NIGHT!, featuring a kaleidoscope of music inspired by world events and culture.
Kronos Quartet presents My Lai (music by Jonathan Berger, libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman) in Chicago
WNMF 2016 opens with major works by American composers David Lang and Joan Tower, plus a special commission from festival co-founder Glenn Buhr.
Julia Wolfe's percussion concerto riSE and fLY with Colin Currie and the Cincinatti Symphony.
eighth blackbird gives the full NY premiere of Sleeping Giant's 'Hand Eye' at Carnegie Hall.
eighth blackbird performs 'Hand Eye' at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia.
Lorelei premieres the new “choral” version of pulitzer-prize winning composer David Lang's Love Fail, a meditation on the timelessness of love that weaves together retellings of the ancient story of Tristan and Isolde, with stories from modern sources.
David Lang's Pulitzer-Prize winning 'the little match girl passion' performed by Figures of Speech Theatre.
Julian Wachner, Director of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street, presents a Twelfth Night Festival of concerts, services and lectures featuring Early Music written for Christmastide, performed by some of the most acclaimed artists in the field. Featuring David Lang's "the national anthems."
Le Train Bleu features Adams’s The Light Within as part of their first concert at National Sawdust.
A new holiday tradition: experience the "tender and mysterious atmosphere" (New York Times) of David Lang's Pulitzer Prize–winning choral parable, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the powerful eponymous story by Hans Christian Andersen. Conductor Julian Wachner leads the Grammy–nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in a performance that also includes Benjamin Britten's popular A Ceremony of Carols, a euphoric welcome for "this little Babe" of Christmas.
Charles Michiels performs David Lang's 'press release' for solo bass clarinet.
The Orchestra of the National Theatre Opera of Prague presents David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe's "Lost Objects".
Turkish contemporary percussion ensemble Sa.Ne.Na. performs the Turkish premiere of Michael Gordon's "Timber."
John Luther Adams’s Ilimaq (version for four percussionists and electronics)
And Bells Remembered (2005)
Florent Ghys joins Cimbalom Ensemble for the premiere of a new work at Princeton University
Canticles of the Sky for string quartet (world premiere, LA Phil commission) performed by the Calder Quartet.
NYU Percussion ensemble presents a special concert featuring Glenn Kotche, conducted by Jonathan Haas.
Jeffrey Milarsky—NWS alumnus and esteemed conductor of contemporary music—returns to NWS for a night of modern blockbusters. John Luther Adams has had a rippling success with Become Ocean. As winner of both the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and a 2015 Grammy Award, the work has been hailed “the loveliest apocalypse in musical history.” Though not inspired by Miami’s waters, it speaks timely of rising sea levels as “we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” Charles Wuorinen, the youngest composer at the time to win a Pulitzer Prize, dazzles with his piece for orchestra and electronics, while Milton Babbitt’s All Set fuses easy jazz with strict serialism.
David Lang's Pulitzer-Prize winning 'the little match girl passion' performed by the University of Maryland Chamber Singers.
In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.
Acclaimed percussion quartet So Percussion perform three major works for unconventional instruments including Steve Reich’s 20th century masterwork Drumming Part 1, David Lang’s The So-Called Laws of Nature, for which So Percussion built their own instruments, and Bryce Dessner of The National’s Music for Wood and Strings.
The Holst Sinfonietta performs David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe's oratorio 'Shelter'.
Studio Percussion performs Michael Gordon's percussion sextet 'Timber'.
In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.
Now Hear This performs works Julia Wolfe's chamber piece "Lick" at Peabody along with works by Dennehy and Grisey.
In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.
Exploring the close connections between traditional classical and contemporary music, the professional vocal ensemble Third Practice bridges the gap between past and present in a performance of the motet Komm, Jesu, Kommby J. S. Bach, the exquisite Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, and the little match girl passion by David Lang, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe returns to Pennsylvania coal country on Saturday, Nov. 14 with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Choir of Trinity Wall Street to share her oratorio “Anthracite Fields” with the community that inspired it.
Los Angeles Philharmonic perform's John Luther Adams's Grammy Award-winning orchestral piece Become Ocean with guest conductor Ludovic Morlot.
Anonymous 4 performs David Lang's 'head heart' at the First Presbyterian Church in Austin.
eighth blackbird performs Bryce Dessner's 'Murder Ballades' as a part of Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin's McCullough Theatre.
John Luther Adams’s Become River will be presented as part of a new Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert series that brings together the classical world and the rock scene on one stage–in this case pairing Adams with the folk-influenced indie duo Wye Oak.
The Opera Factory performs Julia Wolfe's "The Carbon Copy Building"
eighth blackbird performs at the Winspear Performance Hall at The University of North Texas as a part of the Rawlins Fine Arts Series.
Emporia State University performs Michael Gordon's percussion sextet 'Timber'.
In CONCRETE, the research focuses on the relation between music, movement and light. Based on “Trance”, the inaugural piece by the composer Michael Gordon, CONCRETE is a collaboration between choreographer Maud Le Pladec and scenographer Sylvie Mélis who will create the light design for the project. At the crossroads of choreography, "light show", contemporary music concert and installation, CONCRETE questions the status of the “fictional” world created by a work of art and its relation to the real world.
In an exuberant ode to life filled with live music, Epiphany sends its audience roaming through labyrinthine tunnels of video, light, and reflection to celebrate the ecstasies of existence. Around a monolithic installation, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City—joined by soulful Zimbabwean singer Netsayi—and a string quartet perform music by Paola Prestini, Netsayi, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, backing surreal eight-channel video by Ali Hossaini. As 3D imagery pulsates with epic chronologies, Aztec, Zoroastrian, and Tibetan texts whirl in ritualistic constellations, merging with musical epiphanies that reveal the epic connectedness of all things.
NEC Philharmonia + Loebel performs David Lang's "international business machine"
LA Dance performs to works by David Lang. Works being performed: memory pieces, this was written by hand.
The London Symphony Chorus performs the U.K premiere of David Lang's 'the national anthems.'
Maya Beiser performs a solo concert at the Barbican Centre "Sound Unbound" Festival in London.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra performs Derek Bermel's 'A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace'.
Mantra Percussion gives the Korean premiere of Michael Gordon's percussion sextet 'Timber' at the Tongyeong International Music Festival.
Seattle Symphony performs Derek Bermel's Migration Series at Benaroya Hall.
Eighth Blackbird performs 'Hand Eye' as a part of the Page Series at the University of Minnesota Winona.
eighth blackbird presents "Contempo: Shulamit Ran Portrait Concert" with Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano.