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BARGEMUSIC (Friday through Sunday) On Friday, the quintet Sospiro Winds performs pieces by Barber, Pavel Haas, Elliott Carter, Gyorgy Kurtag and Paquito D’Rivera. On Saturday and Sunday, Peter Kolkay, a fine bassoonist, joins the Salome Chamber Orchestra in a concerto for bassoon and strings by Russell Platt; Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis” and an arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 complete the bill. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, next to the Brooklyn Bridge , (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; Friday, $35, $30 for 65+, $15 for students; Saturday and Sunday, $45, $40 for 65+, $15 for students. (Smith)

GREENWICH MUSIC FESTIVAL (Saturday and Sunday) The highlight of the festival this year is a staged production of “El Cimarrón” (“The Runaway Slave”), a 1970 chamber work by Hans Werner Henze that tells the story of Esteban Montejo, born a slave on a Cuban sugar plantation in 1860. Ted Huffman and Zack Winokur direct the production; Mr. Winokur is also the choreographer. Eugene Perry narrates, using an English translation by Christopher Keene. Robert Ainsley conducts the flutist Claire Chase, the guitarist Daniel Lippel and the percussionist Nathan Davis (members of the excellent International Contemporary Ensemble). At 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, St. Catherine of Siena, 4 Riverside Avenue, Riverside, Conn. , (203) 637-0536, greenwichmusicfestival.org; $20 to $40. (Schweitzer)

INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Tuesday and Thursday) The Mannes College the New School for Music presents a parade of festivals during the summer, including a hefty new-music series that opens on Tuesday with a performance by the pianist Marc Ponthus, the violinist Rolf Schulte and the flutist and composer Robert Dick. Their program includes music by Elliott Carter, Brian Fennelly and Pierre Boulez. And on Thursday, Mr. Dick plays a program of unaccompanied flute works, including several of his own and others by Takemitsu, Berio, Shulamit Ran, Cindy McTee and Robert Morris. Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m., Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street , (212) 580-0210, Ext. 4884, newschool.edu; $20, $10 for students. (Kozinn)

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TIM BERNE AND LOS TOTOPOS (Wednesday) Mr. Berne, an alto saxophonist and composer with a taste for coarsely layered frictions, has lately been working semi-regularly with a group he calls Los Totopos, featuring Matt Mitchell on piano, Oscar Noriega on clarinets and Ches Smith on drums. The band focuses not only on sharp and convoluted new music by Mr. Berne, but also on some rather obscure material written more than 30 years ago by his former mentor, the saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill. Tuesday at 8 p.m., I-Beam Music, 168 Seventh Street, between Second and Third Avenues, Gowanus, Brooklyn, ibeambrooklyn.com; suggested donation $5. Wednesday at 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village , thestonenyc.com; $10. (Nate Chinen)

BROKEN ARM TRIO/FARMERS BY NATURE (Tuesday) Broken Arm Trio, which appears here at 8 p.m., is a fond tribute to the bassist Oscar Pettiford, featuring Erik Friedlander’s self-assured pizzicato cello playing against a simple backdrop of bass (Trevor Dunn) and drums (Mike Sarin). “Farmers by Nature,” at 10, is the name of an album released last year, consisting of the freely improvised rapport of three intelligent searchers: the drummer Gerald Cleaver, the bassist William Parker and the pianist Craig Taborn. The Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village , thestonenyc.com; $10 per set. (Chinen)

VIJAY IYER TRIO (Wednesday and Thursday) “Historicity” (ACT), one of last year’s most heralded jazz releases, finds the pianist-composer Vijay Iyer interrogating the very premise of a covers album, with restive versions of songs by (among others) M.I.A. and Andrew Hill. He draws partly from the album here, with the same bassist, Stephan Crump, and a worthy substitute drummer, Justin Brown. (The drummer from the album, Marcus Gilmore, will swap back in on June 18 and 19.) At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton , (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; $30 side seating; $40 center seating, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

SEABROOK POWER PLANT/MOSTLY OTHER PEOPLE DO THE KILLING (Thursday) Both bands on this double bill, among the more rambunctious on the CareFusion Jazz Festival roster, are out to scramble the usual jazz dynamics without abandoning the principles of the form. Seabrook Power Plant, which goes on at 9 p.m., does this with a distortion-laced banjo playing hard-core punk riffs; Mostly Other People Do the Killing, scheduled to play at 10, does it with spasmodic small-group interplay. Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, near Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn , carefusionjazz.com; no cover. (Chinen)

SUN RA ARKESTRA (Thursday) Led by the irrepressible 86-year-old alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, this ensemble carries on the cosmic avant-gardism of its namesake with ragtag brio. The group appears here under the banner of the CareFusion Jazz Festival. At 7 p.m., Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street , (212) 864-4500, nycjazzfestival.com; $15; $10 members and students. (Chinen)

THE THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY (Tuesday) This collective — the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the cellist Jessica Pavone, the cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and the drummer Tomas Fujiwara — has a recent album, “(un)sentimental” (Important), that puts a noisy new wrinkle into the upstart avant-garde. In performance, the group seems inclined to draw from the album, but also diverge from it in whatever ways feel useful. At 9:30 p.m., Korzo, 667 Fifth Avenue, at 20th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (718) 285-9425, korzorestaurant.com; suggested donation $5. (Chinen)

UNDEAD JAZZFEST (Saturday and Sunday) An upstart arrival to New York’s jazz festival smorgasbord, this series features some of the best working bands on the scene, spread across three nearly adjacent Greenwich Village clubs. Highlights include Dave Douglas and Keystone at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, on Saturday at 8:20 p.m.; Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread at Kenny’s Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, on Sunday at 6:40 p.m.; and Steve Coleman and Five Elements at Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan Street, on Sunday at 8 p.m. For a full schedule, see undeadjazzfest.com. $25 for a one-night pass; $30 for two nights. (Chinen)

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From Metropolis Underground, a June 14th show.

“Screwed Anthologies” was originally commissioned by labotanica for the exhibit “Screwed Anthologies”:

http://labotanica.org/projects_screwed.html

David Dove grew up learning his horn in the public school band program, while at the same time playing electric-bass in punk rock groups. Before he was out of high school, he began a period exploring (formally and informally) a range of musical styles (including classical, jazz, experimental and 6 years in the band Sprawl). Lucas Gorham first met Dove when he was a teenager in 1999. Lucas was playing guitar in a local ‘rock-en-español’ band. Nurtured on his parents’ record collection and turned on to Cecil Taylor by a hip math teacher, Gorham fit right in with Nameless Sound’s Youth Ensemble. By the time he was 19, Gorham had gained (through Nameless Sound) experience from workshops with some of the premiere names in creative music (including Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee, Eugene Chadbourne, Sam Rivers, Leroy Jenkins, and William Parker).

Atlantic Drone’s music holds all of the sensations associated with true psychedelia: the meditative hypnotics of prog forefathers Can, the reckless propulsion of free jazz, the kinetic energy of early King Crimson, the soaring intensity of Soft Machine, the swirling throbs of early Butthole Surfers, the natural beauty of Brian Eno’s ambiance and the schizophrenic scuttle of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Far from creating a nostalgic tribute to a previous age, ATLANTIC DRONE is a redefinition of the sonic trip, creating a sound that is both exhilarating and Zen-ful; serving up an atom to the melting molecular soup of Post Psychedelic Hypno Mantras that point more to the future than to the past. Featuring Steven Cerio, John Bateman & Mike ((P))
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June 14th @ 8pm
$5-$10 Donation

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

June 08, 2010
Demierre-Hug-Leimgruber-Sharp, The Stone
Jacques Demierre, Charlotte Hug, Urs Leimgruber, Elliott Sharp
Oscar Noriega Quintet, The Stone
John Hebert, Ingrid Laubrock, Matt Mitchel, Oscar Noriega, Tom Rainey

June 03, 2010
Lotte Anker Trio, The Stone
Lotte Anker, Gerald Cleaver, Craig Taborn