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Reviews
Cage, Unlocked reviewed by Chris McGovern in Sequenza21
Cage, Unlocked and Randy Gibson's Circular Trance... reviewed by Bruce Hodges of Seen and Heard International
Johnson's An After School Vespers & Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire reviewed by Brian M. Rosen
Beglarian's Songs from the River and Elsewhere reviewed by Lucid Culture
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Music by
Eve Beglarian
John Cage
Randy Gibson
Jenny Olivia Johnson
Arnold Schoenberg
Performances:
Friday 2/10/2012 - 8pm
Randy Gibson: Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar...
Saturday 2/11/2012
Celebrating John Cage at 100:
· Sonatas & Interludes - 4pm
· Composer Roundtable - 5.30pm
· Cage, Unlocked - 8pm
Wednesday 2/15/2012 - 8pm
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Jenny Olivia Johnson: An After School Vespers
Friday 2/17/2012 - 8pm
Eve Beglarian: Songs from The River and Elsewhere
Monday 2/27/2012 - 8pm
Randy Gibson: The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome...
Avant Media: concept, production
Randy Gibson: curator
Megan Schubert: curator
Kryssy Wright: stage manager / lighting
Ben Manley: sound
Joy Hazleton: ticketing
Oscar Henriquez: graphic design
The Avant Music Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The Avant Music Festival Composer Roundtable is funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program.
Productions
Anger
Aqua Madora
Avant Music Festival 2010
Avant Music Festival 2011
Avant Music Festival 2012
Doleo Æternus
John Cage at 95
Mémoire-en-Ciel
Permanent Wilting
Triplicate
Voices + Sine Waves
Five nights of music from the evolving Avant-Garde
Curated by Randy Gibson and Megan Schubert
February 10-18, 2012
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, New York City
The third annual Avant Music Festival celebrates the 100th birthday of John Cage, the centennial of the premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and contemporary experimental works by Randy Gibson, Eve Beglarian, and Jenny Olivia Johnson.
Schedule of Events:
All concerts begin at 8pm, except where noted
Friday, February 10, 2012
Randy Gibson's Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars
Video by Oscar Henriquez. Commissioned and Performed by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble - Mellissa Hughes, soprano; Mary Mackenzie, soprano; Eric S. Brenner, soprano/countertenor; Patrick Fennig, countertenor; Matthew Hensrud, tenor; Michael Weyandt, baritone; Jeffrey Gavett, baritone and director with sine wave drones.
This piece is an Avant-Premiere, an updated and expanded version from the November, 2011 World Premiere at Music At First.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Celebrating John Cage at 100
4pm: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes
Vicky Chow, piano.
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5.30pm: Composer Roundtable moderated by Megan Schubert
Eve Beglarian, Randy Gibson, and Jenny Olivia Johnson discuss John Cage, Contemporary Music, and the working life of a Composer. This is a free event. It will also be livestreamed.
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8pm: Cage, Unlocked
· John Cage: Living Room Music
loadbang - Alejandro T. Acierto, Andrew Kozar, William Lang, Jeffrey Gavett.
· John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Vicky Chow, piano - with: loadbang, Gelsey Bell, Drew Blumberg, Nicole Camacho, and Victor Lowrie, orchestra.
· John Cage: Ryoanji
William Lang, trombone; Megan Schubert, voice; Randy Gibson, percussion.
· John Cage: Nocturne
Vicky Chow, piano; Drew Blumberg, violin.
· John Cage: Four3 performed as live musical accompaniment to the Merce Cunningham dance film Beach Birds for Camera
for rainsticks, piano, sine wave, silence - performed by Drew Blumberg, Vicky Chow, Randy Gibson, and William Lang.
This evening's program, celebrating John Cage's 100th birthday, was co-curated with Festival composers: Living Room Music (Johnson), Ryoanji (Gibson), Nocturne (Beglarian).
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
The Pierrot Project: Megan Schubert, Sprechstimme; Nicole Camacho, flutes; Alejandro T. Acierto, clarinets; Josh Modney, violin and viola; Mariel Roberts, cello; Chris Goddard, piano.
2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the World Premiere of Pierrot Lunaire.
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Jenny Olivia Johnson: An After School Vespers: 4 Songs on Youth/Sex/Death
Includes the works: Cutter, Dollar Beers (Redondo Beach '96), After School Vespers (Solemn), Starling.
The Pierrot Project with Megan Schubert and Lucy McVeigh, sopranos; Jude Traxler, percussion; Jeffrey Gavett, conductor; Jenny Olivia Johnson, electronics.
After School Vespers (Solemn) is a World Premiere, and was written for the festival performance.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Eve Beglarian's Songs from The River and Elsewhere
Eve Beglarian, voice; Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble - Megan Schubert, soprano; Rachel Calloway, mezzo soprano; Eric S. Brenner, soprano/countertenor; Jeffrey Gavett, baritone and director; Vicky Chow, piano; Ana Milosavljevic, violin.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012*
Randy Gibson's The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions of the Four Pillars
Video by Oscar Henriquez. William Lang, trombone with sine wave drones and digital delay.
*Rescheduled due to technical difficulties
Monday, February 27, 2012
Randy Gibson's The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions of the Four Pillars
Full World Premiere. Video by Oscar Henriquez. William Lang, trombone with sine wave drones and digital delay.
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