current season
Chamber Players of the League/ISCM
From Barber to Berger
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 3 p.m.,
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street New York, NY
Tickets: $10 gen. adm., $5 for students + seniors
The Chamber Players of the League/ISCM perform at New York’s intimate Tenri Cultural Institute. The inimitable ensemble of New York freelancers present a program featuring Mark Berger’s 2009 League of Composers/ISCM prize-winning string trio alongside Samuel Barber’s Sonata for Cello & Piano (premiered by the League in 1933), Ben Johnston’s Amazing Grace, and Eric Moe’s Strange Exclaiming Music.
Music of Bartók and Crumb
March 23rd, 2010, 8 p.m.,
Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, Goodman House, 129 W 67th Street NYC
Tickets: $20 gen. adm. $10 for students + seniors
Pianists Eliza Garth and Brian Gan with percussionists Jonathan Haas and Sean Statser present Béla Bartók’s ferocious and transcendent Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion (premiered by the ISCM in Basel, Switzerland in 1938) and George Crumb’s luminous Music for a Summer Evening.
Residency
April 2010, Cleveland State University
Members of the Orchestra of the League of Composers will be in residence at Cleveland State University. The Players will read student works and select one piece to perform on its concert the following evening. Also on the concert will be new works by David Glaser and Stephen Dembski, Hector Villa-Lobos’ Choros (premiered by the League in 1932), and Joan Tower’s Petroushkates.
Contemporary Music For Violin, Percussion + Piano
Wednesday, May 26, 8 PM,
Roulette, 20 Greene Street, NYC>
Tickets $10 general admission, available at the door
Violinist Esther Noh, percussionist Alex Lipowski, and pianist Jacob Rhodebeck present a dynamic program that includes Sebastian Armoza’s Triggers (NY Premiere), Lou Harrison’s Varied Trio, Dary John Mizelle’s Lemma (World Premiere), David Schober’s Empty Shells, John Zorn’s Music For Children, and a new work by John Arrigo-Nelson.
Orchestra of the League of Composers
Season Finale
Monday, June 7, 2010, 8 p.m.,
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Tickets: $20 gen. adm., $10 for students - available at the door.
**Advanced ticket holders’ names will be on a list at the box office - no paper tickets will be mailed.**
John Schaefer of WNYC hosts the League’s season finale featuring the Orchestra of the League of Composers, conducted by Louis Karchin, on Monday, June 7, 2010 at Miller Theatre (8 PM). Mr. Schaefer interviews the evening’s composers, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, D.J. Sparr, Joan Tower, and Jason Treuting, throughout the concert.
On the program will be Babbitt’s Transfigured Notes (NY Premiere), Carter’s On Conversing with Paradise (NY Premiere - composed at age 99!), Tower’s Purple Rhapsody (NY Premiere), the League’s 2009 competition winning piece by D.J. Sparr, DACCA:DECCA:GaFfa, and Treuting’s oblique music for 4 plus (blank) (World Premiere and League commission with So Percussion and the League orchestra). Concert presented with the assistance of Manhattan New Music Project.
SEASON PASS $50 GENERAL ADMISSION TO ALL 4 NY CONCERTS
To order tickets, call 718.622.3005, send check payable to League of Composers (attn: David Gordon, 609 Warren St, Brooklyn, NY 11217), or purchase at the door.
Special Thanks
This season would not be possible without the generous support of the Argosy Contemporary Music Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the Amphion Foundation, the Barlow Fund for New Music, the Reed Foundation, NYSCA, League Board Members + Pinnacle Prep.