A Great Weekend of New Music, March 20–22
Unless your transportation comes equipped with an alternate reality drive it’s going to be tough to get to all the great contemporary music happening in the Burgh this weekend.
Music on the Edge and the Warhol kick things off on Friday night with a performance by Alarm Will Sound at The New Hazlett. On Saturday, Walter Morales leads the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble in the Pittsburgh premiere of John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music (featuring piainsts Jack Kurutz and Robert Frankenberry) and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Sunday is when you will need to spin up the alternate reality drive so that you can see the Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra and flutist Alberto Almarza premiere David Stock’s new Flute Concerto (see below), then hop over to the Brew House on the South Side where Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra will feature the premiere of i meet you. i remember you. by Pittsburgh composer David Gerard Matthews, featuring the intrepid Roger Zahab as violin soloist. Speaking of which, I’m delighted to welcome ELCO to the links section of the blog.