Pittsburgh New Music Net

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

Carnegie Music Hall
$5 for general admission and can be purchased in advance online at music.cmu.edu. College students w/valid ID receive FREE admission!

Carnegie Mellon’s Wind Ensemble presents a lively program featuring two world premieres: Professor Marilyn Taft Thomas’ Snapshots of a Great City (transcription by director Denis Colwell), and Scatterbrain by composition student Alex Weston (BFA ‘11). Other contemporary works will include Ticheli’s Blue Shades, Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Whitacre’s October, and High Flight, a high energy piece commissioned by the U.S. Air Force Band. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 in Oakland’s Carnegie Music Hall.

Tickets are $5 for general admission and can be purchased in advance online at http://music.cmu.edu. College students w/valid ID receive FREE admission!

Synod Hall

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G. F. Handel:  Royal Fireworks (arr)

Kerrith Livengood: twelve ball bearings

Matthew Heap: Unravelling conversations

Nathan Hall: On the troposphere

Rob Frankenberry: Indianisches Tagebuch (Busoni)

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.

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
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IonSound Project will perform new music by Pitt’s grad student composers as part of their ongoing residency with the Pitt’s Department of Music.

Synod Hall

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Mark Fromm: Harmonices Mundi

Ivan Jimenez: Luces incandescentes…

Jong Hee Kang: 4:30am, Prague

Federico Garcia: Endecaphony

Matthew Gillespie: Ineffable dissolutions

Bellefield Hall Auditorium
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IonSound Project completes their Reduce-Renew-Recycle season with a music by Joan Tower, Daron Hagen, and Francis Poulenc. Featuring guest pianist Amy Williams in Lukas Foss’ mesmerizing Solo Observed.  This concert will be paired with a unique installation project aimed at promoting recycling in the city of Pittsburgh.

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.

Heinz Hall
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The PSO pairs Richard Danielpour’s Rocking the Cradle with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.