Pittsburgh New Music Net

The Andy Warhol Museum
(Doors at 7:30)
Tickets $12 – call 412-237-8300 or visit www.ticketweb.com

The Warhol welcomes percussionist and composer Ravish Momin’s Trio Tarana, including Skye Steele (violin) and Greg Heffernan (cello and electronics). The trio’s latest release on Clean Fed Records, features a unique, genre-blending mix of live electronics, jazz and classical music (including Indian and Middle-eastern scales) with inspirations ranging from Flying Lotus to Penderecki to Sun Ra. Momin began his career performing with progressive jazz musicians from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), whose initial membership included the likes of Anthony Braxton and Lester Bowie. More recently his trio has been sharing festival stages with likes of Akron/Family, Xiu Xiu and Sufjan Stevens. Pittsburgh-based jazz aficionado DJ J. Malls opens the show.

On the Saturday morning that Snowmageddon unleashed its fury on the region I had the pleasure of video chatting with flutist extraordinaire Lindsey J. Goodman about her upcoming Music on the Edge recital at the Warhol. Well known to local new music audiences for her exquisite performances with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Lindsey will share a recital with Anthony Coleman on February 27. She’ll perform three pieces for flute and electroacoustics—by Mathew Rosenblum, Jacob Ter Veldhuis and Russell Pinkston—and the world premiere of a solo flute piece by Grant Cooper. In the following audio interview, Lindsey talks about the different pieces on the program, her love for electroacoustic elements, and what she looks for when she’s thinking about tackling a new piece. She also gives a little preview on the upcoming PNME season.

As always, I encourage you to listen to the whole interview.

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And here are some excerpts from the full interview. First of all, I asked Lindsey to describe what was on her program.

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When I asked Lindsey about how her affinity for electroacoustic elements developed, her thoughts ranged from being able to perform “chamber music for one person” to how this genre is particularly relevant to our technological society.

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Russell Pinkston’s Lizamander is for flute and MaxMSP and Lindsey discussed both the intense satisfaction and the risks of working with live signal processing.

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Finally, Lindesy gave us a preview of the upcoming PNME season as well as some her new projects which include concerto performances and (maybe, possibly) recording projects.

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For details about the concert visit Music on the Edge at www.music.pitt.edu/mote.

PSO bassonist David Sogg asked me to post the following announcement about the Music Narratives concert at the Warhol tonight, which I am more than happy to do.

The Concert is ON!

Tonight at 8:00 pm at The Andy Warhol Museum, members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra WILL present…

Musical Narratives

The music—Stravinsky & Kander—is hot. Kurt Vonnegut’s words are searing. Electrifying performances by Martin Giles and fellow actors bring you a hilarious black comedy that places Stravinsky’s music in an entirely new light.

The snow may go on, … the SHOW definitely WILL go on.

Tickets are $15 at the door, cash or check. To place your name on the reserved tickets list, send an email to sogg@duq.edu with the word “tickets” in the subject line. In the message text, specify number of tickets requested (limit 2, please), along with your name. They will be held for you at the door until 10 minutes before the concert. For further information, call 412-361-5704.

See you there!

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

Music on the Edge presents ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) this Saturday night at the Warhol and the crack new music group’s program has attracted a lot of attention from local media. You can see Mark Kanny’s preview in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune Review and another by Aaron Jentzen in this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper.

ICE performs on Saturday, January 9 at The Andy Warhol Museum at 8 p.m. Tickets are available through ProArts and at the door. Find out more about the concert here.

Cross-posted at music.pitt.edu.

Happy New Year to all of you who faithfully read this blog!

If it seems as though the new music scene has been a little feast or famine this season, well then prepare to feast! 2010 gets underway in grand style starting this Saturday night at the Warhol when Music on the Edge hosts ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble). And to make things just perfect, the high on Saturday is supposed to be a whopping 16º! (Is it too late for them to change their name to BALMY?)

The following week includes concerts by the Polish Cultural Council presenting Zygmunt Krauze at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (January 13), Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s winter chamber music concert at Chatham University (January 14), and on January 18, the Emerson Quartet performing music by Ives, Janacek, Barber, and Shostokovich. While the Emerson concert isn’t new music per se, it’s hard for me to imagine anyone appreciating this program more than the new music community.

That’s what I know of for January; you can find more details at the Events Calendar. I’ll begin posting events for the rest of the winter and spring soon, so as always, if you have info about an upcoming performance, do tell.

The Andy Warhol Museum
ProArts Tickets

Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum will continue their highly successful collaboration beginning this January with a concert by the New York/Chicago-based International Contemporary Ensemble. The concert will feature

Amy Williams’ Cineshape 1
Elliott Carter’s Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux
Philippe Manoury’s Last
Magnus Lindberg’s Linea d’Ombra
Reiko Fueting’s Infinite Spring

You can read the full press release here.

Usually I put up a “highlights of the week” type post on Thursday or Friday, but this week you want to know about Tuesday.  This Tuesday, October 6, you can start out downtown listening to  Thoth (comprising Ben Opie, Paul Thompson, and David Throckmorton) at the Backstage Bar beginning at 5 p.m. Then shoot over to the North Side Shore to catch Diamanda Galas at the New Hazlett Theater courtesy of The Warhol’s Off the Wall series. More details and links are on the Events Calendar.

For tickets call 412-237-8300 or visit www.ticketweb.com

The Andy Warhol Museum and the New Hazlett Theater present Diamanda Galas in concert. Find out more.

Andy Druckenbrod published this over at Classical Musings. Here’s a taste:

“And after playing some excerpts of The Beatle’s “Revolution 9″ during the show, the group ended the night with an amazing transcription of the famous experimental track from “the White Album.” Yes, they performed tape loops and all, in a totally live performance conducted expertly by Alan Pierson.”