News about contemporary music in Pittsburgh
On Tuesday, March 30th, come see CAPA High School’s new music ensemble, Antithesis, perform alongside percussionist/composer Lukas Ligeti and Ben Opie (saxophonist of Opek and Thoth Trio) at Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave. The concert begins at 7:30 pm and admission is $10, open to all ages. Hope to see you there!
Andy Druckenbrod interviews Mason Bates in anticipation of this weekends PSO concerts.
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.
Mark Kanny of the Tribune Review sums it up nicely here.
Andy Druckenbrod reviews last night’s PNME opener in the Post-Gazette. The program repeats tonight at 8 at City Theatre.
This one got by me last week, but if you haven’t done so, stop by Andy Druckenbrod’s blog for coverage of NIME. The post includes an excellent video montage from the conference featuring CMU’s Roger Dannenberg.
Don’t miss this profile of Eric Moe from yesterday’s Post-Gazette.
David Bernabo – Improvisation 01 for solo acoustic guitar
If an effort to provide more audio and video media to this blog, here is an artifact from the first edition of the WHY ARE Music Series that was held every Saturday in March 2009. This happens to be me since I’ve been on a recent documenting kick. I’ll be soliciting records from other folks who played and post them if given. Hope you enjoy.
On Friday, April 3, 7 p.m. WQED will broadcast their concert recording of Imani Winds’ February performance for Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society. The concert includes works by Santamaria, Husa, Schifrin, Ligeti, Coleman, and Piazzolla. If you missed the Imani Winds live when they were in Pittsburgh, you’ll want to tune in. And don’t forget that PNMNet has an extensive interview with Imani bassoonist and Pittsburgh native Monica Ellis a few posts down.
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.”