Pittsburgh New Music Net

MOTE’s next concert takes place on Friday night at Bellefield when Cellist Dave Eggar takes the stage with Chuck Palmer (percussion), Mary Moser (violin), Rob Frankenberry (piano), and Attack Theatre Dancers. Here’s the complete program:

Seize Seas Seeth Seen (2003), Elliott Sharp

Trapped (2008), Somei Satoh

commissioned by and featuring Attack Theatre dancers

Switches, for Dave Eggar (2007), Sam Pluta

Child’s Song (1983) arr. Deoro, Fred Hersch

INTERMISSION

Durations (1953), Morton Feldman

Evocations no. 3, Ralph Shapey

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Circadian Rhythms (1989), Mathew Rosenblum

Sweet! Be there!

NOTE: In case you didn’t see it, CAPA’s Antithesis program has been rescheduled for February 18.

PNC Bank Recital Hall
Admission is free.

Flutist Lindsey Goodman, pianist Robert Frankenberry, and vocalist Eva Rainforth will perform chamber music by living American composers during a Common Hour recital at Duquesne University. Goodman and Frankenberry will play and sing the world premiere of a new work by Gilda Lyons and play the American premiere of Eli Tamar’s Vicious Circles. Eva Rainforth will join to sing Jeff Nytch’s From the Soul of Silence, and Pittsburgh composers Amy Williams and Roger Zahab will also be featured.

Eli Tamar Vicious Circles (American premiere)
Amy Williams First Lines
Roger Zahab … some measures for living …
Gilda Lyons (world premiere)
Joseph Schwantner Black Anemones
Jeffrey Nytch From the Soul of Silence

Members of the PSO perform a program of musical narratives featuring works by Tom Johnson, Susan Kander, and Igor Stravinsky

The Andy Warhol Museum

Failing, a very difficult piece for solo string bass by Tom Johnson
Jeffrey Turner, double bass

The Lunch Counter:  a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon by Susan Kander (world premiere)
David Sogg, bassoon

A Soldier’s Story by Igor Stravinsky with a new text by Kurt Vonnegut
(Pittsburgh premiere of the Vonnegut version)

Dennis O’Boyle, violin
John Moore, double bass
Ron Samuels, clarinet
David Sogg, bassoon
Neal Berntsen, cornet
Peter Sullivan, trombone
Jeremy Branson, percussion
with actors Maggie Carr, Rob Frankenberry, Martin Giles, and Ben Thorpe.

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.