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September 30. Upcoming concert.
The world premeire of “Night Music” for violin and cello will take place Thursday, October 6, at 7:30pm. Random Access Music presents “Discreet Encounters” at the Gershwin hotel. Go to www.ram-nyc.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
June 5, 2011. Announcements.
Manly Romero is now the Artistic Director for Random Access Music composers’ collective (RAM). www.ram-nyc.org.
April 24, 2011. Concert Announcements.
Saturday, May 14, 4:30pm, at the Rose Studio, The Rose Building, 10th floor, West 65th Street at Amsterdam, New York. Lauren Blackerby, with Jason Smoller, premieres “El jardin del Eden,” a short double concerto for oboe, English horn and string quintet. Also on the program, Mozart’s oboe quartet.
Saturday, May 21, 8:30pm, Ann Goodman Recital Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street at Broadway. Ursula premieres “Attachment,” a setting of Matthew Yeager’s “A large ball of foil in my small New York apartment,” for vocal quartet, electric guitar and percussion. Also on the program, 5 world premieres by member composers of Random Access Music, and by Ursula guitarist David Nadal.
March 21, 2011. In the press! Reviews for world premiere of Doppelganger.
www.examiner.com/classical-music-in-san-francisco/a-competition-winning-world-premiere-from-blueprint-review
www.sfcv.org/reviews/blueprint-new-music-series/blueprint-offers-doppelgangers-drums-and-songs
February 1, 2011. Press release for March 4-5 performance.
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January 27, 2011. Recent and upcoming performances.
October 27, 2010. “El barrio,” for horn and piano, was performed twice at Indiana State University by Nathaniel Rainey and Logan Lundstrom. The first performance was part of ISU’s 44th annual Contemporary Music Festival.
December 7, 2010. “Miniaturizations,” for clarinet and large drum, was performed at Manhattan School of Music by members of Tactus (Felix Behringer and Yumi Ito) on a program featuring music music by composers of Latin American descent. Manly Romero participated in a pre-concert conversation with MSM President Robert Sirota, and composer Gabriella Frank.
February 25, 2011. The world premiere of “Hate Song,” a setting of a poem by Julie Sheehan, will be performed on thingNY’s SPAM v.2.0: the second-annual avant-garde variety marathon of new music and performance art. LaGuardia performing arts center, Queens. Tickets are available at www.thingNY.com or by calling LPAC at718-482-5151. For more information go laguardiaperformingartscenter.org or visit us at the LPAC blog (www.laguardiaperformingartscenter.blogspot.com/).
March 12, 2011. World Premiere of Doppelganger, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Nicole Paiement, conductor (see below for more information).
late March, 2011 . World premiere of “El jardin del Eden (The Garden of Eden)” for oboe, English horn and string quintet by Lauren Blackerby (more information to come).
May 20 & 21, 2011. World premiere of “Attachment,” a setting of Matthew Yeager’s “A Large Ball of Aluminum Foil in my Small NY Apartment,” by Ursula ensemble, in collaboration with Random Access Music composers’ collective. (more information to come).
October 8, 2010. Residency and world premiere commission by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Doppelganger, Romero’s new work for 2 solo violins, 2 solo trumpets and double ensemble, will premiere March 12, 2011 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), Nicole Paiement, conducting. SFCM is hosting Mr Romero for a week-long residency during which he will give a composition masterclass, and following which Doppelganger will be recorded for future release. The commission and residency result from Mr Romero’s award of the Hoefer Prize, a newly endowed annual award for a SFCM alum.
The composing of Doppelganger was inspired by a recent performance of Bach’s St Matthew passion with it’s split orchestra and chorus, and famous solo violin movements, one for each orchestra. Doppelganger, a 25-minute concerto in two movements, is about pairs of things: pairs of instruments, ensembles, soloists, pitches, formal sections, etc. “What’s interesting,” says Romero, “is that one partner in the pair is always a shadow of the other in some way. They are never equal. The hierarchy seems obvious at first, but as time passes, one begins to question which partner really is the original, which is the copy.”
The work was almost entirely composed on the subway, with pencil on manuscript paper clipped to a bright orange board, over a period of six months in 2010.