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From chicagotribune.com:

Lee Hyla‘s music bestrides so many different styles and genres that you’d guess his own voice would be hard to detect beneath the welter of influences.

You’d guess wrong. His individuality emerges with a freshness and directness that are rare in contemporary classical music — so cannily does he absorb these influences and turn them to his own expressive ends. No wonder Hyla’s works appeal to such a wide variety of listeners.

Chicagoans will get a bracing dose of his unabashedly eclectic outlook Monday night at Roosevelt University‘s Ganz Hall, where the composer — the Harry and Ruth Wyatt professor of theory and composition at Northwestern University — will preside over the first of two Composer Perspectives concerts the Chicago Chamber Musicians is presenting this season.

From the Chicago Reader:

Chicago has lots of music festivals, and Chicago has plenty of concerts year-round devoted to experimental music and noise. Now it looks like the city is finally getting a festival that focuses on experimental music and noise. The Neon Marshmallow Festival will make its debut from August 20 through 22 at the Viaduct Theater, and while the details (including the lineup) are still being hammered out, what’s been announced so far looks impressive.

So far, the lineup includes Astral Social Club, Emeralds, Telecult Powers, Skin Graft, Caboladies, Fragments, Tiger Hatchery, Dog Lady, Sunglasses, and Red Electric Rainbow.

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From NY’s Morgan Library & Museum:

The dynamic JACK Quartet will perform the complete Xenakis string quartets (see below) to coincide with a series of public programs related to The Drawing Center’s exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary (January 15 through April 8, 2010, www.drawingcenter.org). This concert is cosponsored by the Electronic Music Foundation.

Tetora (1990)
ST/4 (1962)
Ergma (1994)
Tetras (1983)
Preconcert talk at 6:45 pm
Friday, February 05, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members

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In NYTimes.com:

A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOE MANERI (Tuesday) Joe Maneri was a saxophonist, composer and pioneer of microtonal theory, and until his death last year, he exerted an outsize influence from his teaching post at the New England Conservatory. One measure of that influence can be seen here, in a tribute featuring dozens of musicians from the adventurous side of the jazz spectrum. In addition to the violist-violinist Mat Maneri, who memorably recorded with his father, the list includes the saxophonists Tony Malaby, Joe McPhee and Chris Speed; the keyboardists John Medeski, Craig Taborn and Matthew Shipp; and the trumpeters Herb Robertson, Dave Ballou and Tom Halter. At 8 p.m., Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn , (718) 488-9233, irondale.org/maneri.html; $10 suggested donation. (Chinen)20100204

KRIS DAVIS TRIO (Wednesday) In her piano playing as well as in her composing, Kris Davis favors a sparkling restlessness, often skirting chaos but rarely succumbing to it. This trio relies on her rapport with the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Tom Rainey. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Tea Lounge, 837 Union Street, near Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (718) 789-2762, tealoungeny.com; $5 suggested donation. (Chinen)20100204

JESSE ELDER TRIO (Thursday) Last year the bright young pianist Jesse Elder released “The Winding Shell” (Off), a calmly serious debut featuring good work from some of his peers, including the bassist Chris Tordini and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who resurface here. At 8 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing near the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn , (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; $25; $10 for students. (Chinen)20100204

DONNY MCCASLIN TRIO (Sunday) The tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin has recorded a handful of rewarding albums with chamberlike ensembles, but on his excellent most recent release, “Recommended Tools” (Greenleaf), he goes in the other direction, leading this muscular trio with the bassist Hans Glawischnig and the drummer Johnathan Blake. Here he enlists Mr. Glawischnig and another dynamic drummer, Ted Poor. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village , (212) 929-9883, 55bar.com; cover, $10. (Chinen)20100204

? HENRY THREADGILL’S ZOOID (Thursday) One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom, Mr. Threadgill released one of last year’s most scintillating albums, “This Brings Us To, Vol. 1” (Pi), featuring Zooid, this working group, with Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums. (Through Feb. 13.) At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village , (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $25; $10 for members. (Chinen)20100204

KEVIN TKACZ’S LETHAL OBJECTION (Tuesday) The bassist Kevin Tkacz (pronounced tax) features his own compositions in this adventurous ensemble, with the saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, the pianist Angelica Sanchez and the drummer Owen Howard. At 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (347) 422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com; $10 suggested donation. (Chinen)

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