Avant Music News

Wordless Music
2011-12 5th Anniversary Season
(fall concerts only)

09.09.2011 Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel (Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Cambridge MA) with ACME performing music of Erik Satie and Gavin Bryars
09.10.2011 Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel (Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston MA) with ACME performing music of Erik Satie and Gavin Bryars
09.11.2011 Remembering September 11: William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1 arranged for live orchestra with music of Schnittke, Golijov, and Ingram Marshall (The Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)
09.21.2011 WHY? / Serengeti (Florence Gould Hall, NYC)
10.02.2011 An Evening with Jon Brion (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
10.03.2011 An Evening with Jon Brion (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
10.16.2011 Peter Hill performs Messiaen (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
10.25.2011 Amon Tobin: ISAM Live Audio/Visual Show (Brooklyn Masonic Temple)
11.11.2011 Plaid / Gamelan Dhara Swara (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
01.31.2012 Jóhann Jóhannsson’s The Miners’ Hymns with film by Bill Morrison (New Sounds Live at The Winter Garden, NYC)

Friday, September 9, 2011
Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel
ACME: music of Erik Satie and Gavin Bryars (“Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet”)
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
7:30pm doors / 8pm show / all ages / ***SOLD OUT***

Saturday, September 10, 2011
Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel
ACME: music of Erik Satie and Gavin Bryars (“Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet”)
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory (Boston, MA)
7pm doors / 8pm show / all ages / ***SOLD OUT***

Sunday, September 11, 2011
Remembering September 11:
William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1
World premiere live orchestration by Maxim Moston
With music of Ingram Marshall, Alfred Schnittke, and Osvaldo Golijov
The Wordless Music Orchestra
Ryan McAdams, conductor
The Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at East 82nd Street)
3:30pm show / all ages / free with museum admission
This concert has been made possible by The Metabolic Studio
Co-presented by Wordless Music and The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
WHY? (an evening with)
Serengeti
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street (at Madison Avenue)
7pm and 10pm shows / all ages / $20

Sunday, October 2, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
An Evening with Jon Brion
Le Poisson Rouge
8pm doors / 9pm show / 21+ / $20
Co-presented by Wordless Music and Adam Shore

Sunday, October 16, 2011
Peter Hill, piano
Music of Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, and J.S. Bach
Le Poisson Rouge
6:30pm doors / 7:30pm show / all ages / $20

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Amon Tobin:
ISAM Live Audio/Visual Show
Brooklyn Masonic Temple
8pm doors and show show / 18+ / $27.50
Co-presented by Wordless Music and BOOM Collective

Friday, November 11, 2011
Plaid
Gamelan Dhara Swara
Le Poisson Rouge
7pm doors / 8pm show / 18+ / $20

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s The Miners’ Hymns
Live soundtrack with film by Bill Morrison
The Wordless Music Orchestra
Guðni Franzson, conductor
The Winter Garden at the World Financial Center
Show time TBA / FREE!
Co-presented with New Sounds Live and Arts>World Financial Center

Saturday, July 23, 6pm
CYRO BAPTISTA’S BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS + JOSEPH BOWIE & ADAM RUDOLPH
Join us in July for the Philadelphia debut of Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits. One of the greatest Brazilian percussionists today, Cyro Baptista is best known for his ensemble Beat the Donkey and has worked closely with many of the world’s most acclaimed musicians including Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson and countless others. Expect to hear a delightful program of experimental Brazilian pop songs in addition to the music of John Zorn. A “pioneer in world music” (The New York Times), percussionist Adam Rudolph is joined by multi-instrumentalist Joseph Bowie for an opening duo set that is grounded in the cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora

MONDAY, JULY 25,
2011 @8PM
THE B.E.A.B.S. ENSEMBLE
Joseph Bowie – trombone, percussion
Ernest Khabeer Dawkins – reeds
Adam Rudolph – drums, percussion
Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes – trumpet
Luke Stewart – bass

@ The Red Door Loft, 443
Eye Street, NW DC (Gallery Metro)
8PM – Door Donation Admittance

The B.E.A.B.S. Ensemble is an all-star collection of seasoned and emerging improvisers featuring trombonist Joseph Bowie (The Black Artists Group, The Human Arts Ensemble, Defunkt, The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble), reedist Ernest Khabeer Dawkins (The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, New Horizons Ensemble, Chicago 12), master drummer & percussionist Adam Rudolph (Yusef Lateef, Moving Pictures, Organic Orchestra), Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes (William Parker Quartet, Little Huey Orchestra, Burnt Sugar), and DC-area young bass-phenom Luke Stewart (Trio OOO, Laughing Man, MOM2).