Music

NEW YORK, NY October 11, 2007 —
The 21st annual New Sounds Live concert series this fall of 2007 at the World Financial Center is full of several US and world premiere works. The first is Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, making its US debut on November 12 & 13. Conducted by Judith Clurman,the work is an a capella song cycle in four movements drawing inspiration from the ancient pilgrimage to the grave of St James at Santiago di Compostella in north-west Spain. Later that month, the New York City-based quartet So Percussion, performs three more premieres - works by Martin Bresnick, Arvo Pärt, and Paul Lansky -on November 20.

On February 13, 2008, hear some works by the people, for the people, at the annual Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund concert at Merkin Hall, the next in the New Sounds Live concert series. The All-Stars premiere work by two up-and-coming New York composers Tristan Perich and Ken Thomson and one by Turkish electroacoustic composer Erdem Helvacioglu; then welcome avant-gypsy-folk singer-violinist Iva Bittová from the Czech Republic for a rare NY performance of their riveting live collaboration. Also, the New Sounds Live silent film music series returns to the World Financial Center's Winter Garden on February 20-21, 2008, with a new score to the classic Battleship Potemkin, by klezmer clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer and DJ Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, the Montreal DJ who hip-hopified klezmer with some gleefully demented beat science.

On March 20, 2008, experience New York City trumpeter and Klezmer specialist (and Klezmatics member) Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace, based on the 1907 Yiddish play by I.L. Peretz at Merkin Hall. London's original score mixes folk, jazz, classical, rock and world beats with a dose of Kurt Weill and Tom Waits. Then, the final New Sounds Live concert of the season is on May 8, 2008 at Merkin Hall - a double bill where Nico Muhly promises to bring "Twitchy Minimalism Meets 16th-Century Austerity with Electronics" and the Curiously Strong Winds perform "Casino" by composer/politician/environmentalist Phillip Bimstein, incorporating found sounds on tape.

All of the concerts, hosted by John Schaefer, will be taped for future broadcast on WNYC.

Schedule of Events

		Monday, November 12 and Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7PM World Financial Center "Path of Miracles" Joby Talbot's new vocal expedition inspired by the Santiago pilgrimage in northwestern Spain.
		Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 7PM World Financial Center So Percussion The revolutionary drummers of this percussion quartet present a world premiere by Martin Bresnick, the US premiere of Arvo Part's "Fratres for Percussion," and the NY premiere of an acoustic work by Paul Lansky.
		Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008 at 8PM Merkin Hall Bang on a Can PCF Concert Three new commissions - works by two up-and-coming New York composers Tristan Perich and Ken Thomson and one by Turkish electroacoustic composer Erdem Helvacioglu; plus avant-gypsy-folk singer-violinist Iva Bittová; and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
		Feb. 20 and Feb 21, 2008, at 7PM World Financial Center New Music for Silent Film The world premiere of a new score to the classic Battleship Potemkin by clarinet powerhouse David Krakauer and Montreal beat scientist DJ Socalled.
		Thurs., March 20, 2008 at 8PM Merkin Hall "A Night in the Old Marketplace" Frank London presents his new folk opera with wicked funny lyrics by Glen Berger. The music wanders from Klezmer (with electric guitar and banjo) to Latin jazz to the cabaret of Kurt Weill, and produces an amalgam of folk, jazz, classical, rock, and world beats.
		Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 8PM Merkin Hall Nico Muhly / Phillip Bimstein Muhly is difficult to pin down, but he promises a work in which "Twitchy Minimalism Meets 16th-Century Austerity with Electronics." Plus, the Curiously Strong Winds perform "Casino" by Phillip Bimstein, incorporating found sounds on tape.