Due to inclement weather, this concert has been postponed to a date yet undecided.
CAPA Cabaret Theater
111 9th St
Free Admission
CAPA High School’s Antithesis Ensemble, directed by Greg Davis and Lenny Young, presents an evening of “non-traditional” music focusing on the theme of graphic notation. The program includes major works by composers such as Kagel and Cardew in addition to compositions by CAPA Students.
A force to be reckoned with, famed percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie unleashes her notable musicality and virtuosity in Steven Stucky’s Spirit Voices, described by the composer as an “inspiration from the diversity of spirits and other supernatural forces from cultures around the world who manifest their presence through sound.” Glennie seamlessly moves across the stage while performing on an impressive array of percussion instruments.
I feel fine! Yeah, I know I disappeared for a while after the IonSound Project. I was really tired, OK? And new music stuff tends to slow down a bit in December when presenters work more holiday fare into their programs anyway. But, good news! You can go to a holiday concert this weekend and hear new music. Oakland Girls Choir is performing in Pittsburgh on Friday and Saturday night and those programs will include the premiere of a new song cycle by Andy Kohn, composer, bassist with the Opera/Ballet Orchestra, and Professor of Music at WVU. Andy’s new work will feature Laura Knoop Very, soprano, and Raymond Very, tenor.
As a proud papa of an Oakland Girls Training Choir member, I know first hand what a treasure OGC is for our city, and it’s great that they are celebrating the season by unveiling a new composition by a Pittsburgh composer. Here’s more information about the concert.
On another subject, I just find out that a film I scored for Will Zavala is screening at the Melwood Screening Room this Tuesday night for this month’s Film Kitchen. It’s called Virgil Cantini: The Artist in Public and features lots of Cantini’s public art that you have probably seen around town without necessarily knowing who made it. Check it out if you can.
Oakland Girls Choirs will give two concerts this weekend, at Third Presbyterian Church on Friday night and Church of the Ascension on Saturday. The concert features the Oakland Girls Tour Choir, Chamber Choir, and the premiere of Dr. Andrew Kohn’s song cycle Love Came Down at Christmas, with soloists Laura Knoop Very, soprano, and Raymond Very, tenor. Saturday’s concert also includes performances by the Oakland Girls Training Choirs.
Cellist extraordinaire Elisa Kohanski will be one of two soloists in Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Come Up from the Fields, Father. It’s a one night only Veteran’s Day celebration which you can find out more about here.
I’m also grateful to Michael Ceurvorst for sending me information about the CMU student composers concert this Saturday, Nov. 12 , 6 p.m. at Alumni Hall. It’s a free concert and open to the public and features all new works. Here’s more info about that event on FB. Check it out, if you can.
So confusing to see tiny Elisa standing next to the life-size picture of Elisa.
Elisa Kohanski, well-known to Pittsburgh new music fans as the cellist in IonSound Project, has a few other gigs keeping her busy. Like opera and ballet orchestra at the Benedum and being principal cello in Wheeling Symphony. For instance. This week part of her work at Wheeling includes premiering a work by Richard Danielpour for solo cello and baritone voice and orchestra called Come Up from the Fields, Father. Her performance is part of a Veteran’s Day celebration concert by the WSO that will include Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from Westside Story and Copland’s Third Symphony. Cruise on down to Wheeling this Friday and give Elisa and the rest of the orchestra a listen.
Composer Jeffrey Nytch sat down with Pittsburgh New Music Net to talk about his new commission for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
PNME premieres Nytch’s new commission on Friday, July 29 & Saturday, July 30 at City Theatre (1300 Bingham, the South Side). Both concerts start at 8PM. Complete details are at www.pnme.org.
Composer Mathew Rosenblum sat down with Pittsburgh New Music Net to talk about his new commission for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
PNME premieres Rosenblum’s new commission on Friday, July 22 & Saturday, July 23 at City Theatre (1300 Bingham, the South Side). Both concerts start at 8PM. Complete details are at www.pnme.org.
The PSO’s principal bassoonist Nancy Goeres will premiere a new concert by Alan Fletcher (former head of CMU’s School of Music). In a program that also includes Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin, Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin, and Ravel’s La Valse.
