Pittsburgh New Music Net

Carnegie Music Hall
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The Hagen Quartet will perform Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 along with works by Beethoven and Grieg.

The Andy Warhol Museum
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Philadelphia’s internationally acclaimed Relâche will perform works by Kyle Gann, Guy Klucevsek, David Mahler, Eric Moe, and a new commission from Paul Lansky.

Sadly, this concert has been postponed until the 2010–11 season.

WYEP Community Broadcast Center
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DJ and electronica artist Masonic has mixed his unique blend of jazzy hip-hop, trip-hop, French house, and funk at venues from San Francisco to Berlin to Rome.  Be a part of this incredible “sneak peek” event as he holds a private performance at WYEP’s studios before his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra the following weekend.

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
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Versatile cellist and Attack Theater music director Dave Eggar will give a free concert for Music on the Edge featuring a world premiere by Elliott Sharp along with music by Mathew Rosenblum, Alvin Lucier, Charles Wourinen, and others.

No surprise there as Pitt and CMU are both closed today. Stay tuned for information about when this concert will be rescheduled. With the premiere of a new work by Marilyn Taft Thomas, we’ll all be anxious to find out.

Assuming we thaw out eventually, there is a lot of new music on tap for the month of February and I’m still finding out about more events. I’ve also got some very cool interviews in the can that I’ll be posting imminently (i.e., as soon as I’ve finished editing them down): one with Emily Pinkerton and Patrick Burke about their collaborative composition for NOW and one with super flutist Lindsey J. Goodman about her upcoming recital with MOTE. So keep checking in right here and in the meantime, stay warm.

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
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UPDATE: Please note this concert is a 7 p.m., not 8 p.m. as originally listed.

Roger Zahab leads the MOTE Chamber Orchestra in works by Mauricio Kagel, Stefan Wolpe, and Roger Zahab with premieres by Anthony Coleman Amy Williams.

The Andy Warhol Museum
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Composer Pianist Anthony Coleman will perform his recent music including selections from his new release Freakish (on the Tzadik label) and Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble flutist Lindsey J. Goodman performs works with live electronics by Mathew Rosenblum, Jacob ter Veldhuis, and more.

Kresge Theatre

Director Denis Colwell leads the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble in a program that features Rorem’s Sinfornia (1957), Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) and Gordon Jacob’s Old Wine in New Bottles (1960). The concert begins at 8 pm. Monday, February 8 on CMU’s campus in the College of Fine Arts’ Kresge Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.

A highlight on the program is the world premiere of a newly transcribed Snapshots of a Great City (2008) by Marilyn Taft Thomas, a professor of composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon.

Soldiers and Sailors Hall

Featuring all Carnegie Mellon School of Music ensembles and select student and faculty soloists, the 2010 Collage Concert will be a feast for the senses! This 90-minute non-stop concert will keep audience members at the edge of their seats as performers appear and disappear from various positions within the concert hall. In one concert, experience the dazzling array of music produced at Carnegie Mellon, including Baroque, Classical, Contemporary, Vocal, Jazz and more in a single performance. Faculty soloists include violinist Cyrus Forough, soprano Laura Knoop Very, pianistEnrique Graf and PSO principal clarinet Michael Rusinek. You won’t want to miss this one-night-only extravaganza of sound produced by Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music and staged by acclaimed director and professor of drama, Gregory Lehane.

When:
8 p.m. Friday, February 12, 2010

Where:
Soldiers & Sailors Auditorium
4141 Fifth Avenue (in Oakland)
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Cost:
$15 general admission
$12 senior citizens
$10 students
Tickets can be purchased in advance via Web

Phone: 412.268.2383 (School of Music’s Concert Line)

Web: Buy tickets online with your credit card at http://music.cmu.edu. Click on ‘Box Office’ to start your order!

On-Site: Tickets will also be available (cash only) at Soldiers & Sailors one hour prior to the performance – at 7:00 p.m., February 12.

Questions? Contact Kristi Ries at kristi@cmu.edu.