From NYTimes.com:
‘Nine Rivers’ (Friday and Saturday) Steven Schick joins members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, the percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish and the chamber choir the Crossing in two programs devoted to the Scottish composer James Dillon’s magnum opus. On Friday night Mr. Schick plays “La Coupure,” an hourlong work for percussion, electronics and visual projections; on Saturday he conducts the last four sections of “Nine Rivers,” culminating in a massed finale. At 8 p.m., Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 854-7799, millertheatre.com; $40. (Steve Smith)
‘Awakening: A Musical Meditation On 9/11’ (Wednesday and Thursday) The pioneering, genre-blurring, style-embracing Kronos Quartet returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with “Awakening,” a reflective program for the anniversary of Sept. 11. There will be 12 works by composers including Terry Riley, Michael Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov and others, and arrangements of traditional songs from around the world. The musicians conceived the program as a way to employ music when words fail us and to find “equilibrium in the midst of imbalance,” as the Kronos violinist David Harrington has put it. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus will participate. At 7:30 p.m., Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; $20 to $50. (Tommasini)
Xavier Le Roy (Monday) As part of the interdisciplinary Crossing the Line festival at the French Institute Alliance Française, the choreographer Xavier Le Roy is presenting “More Mouvements für Lachenmann,” a program of works by the imaginative German composer Helmut Lachenmann, in which Mr. Le Roy examines the relationship between the music, the musicians and the performance, with an emphasis on aural and visual gestures. At 7:30 p.m., Florence Gould Hall, French Institute Alliance Française, 55 East 59th Street, Manhattan, (800)?982-2787, fiaf.org; $20. (Allan Kozinn)
Moving Sounds Festival 2011 (Friday and Saturday) Produced by the Austrian Cultural Forum of New York, this annual event mixes avant-garde classical music with sounds less easily codified. Two concerts presented under the title “Czechsplorations” feature the excellent Argento Chamber Ensemble. The first, offered twice on Friday, includes novel arrangements of the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony and two Janacek works; the second, on Saturday at 6 p.m., includes fresh pieces by David Fulmer, Eva Reiter and George Lewis, followed at 8 p.m. with electronic music by Michal Rataj and Michael J. Schumacher. (See the forum’s Web site for related events in other locations.) At 6 and 8 p.m., Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, (646) 422-3399, acfny.org; free with reservations. (Smith)
Nono Muchmore Warp(ed) Festival (Saturday) Composed in 1988 and 1989, Luigi Nono’s dense, demanding “La Lontanza Nostalgicia Utopica Futura” is closely associated with the violinist who premiered it, Gidon Kremer. Leave it to Miranda Cuckson, an eloquent, enterprising New York violinist, to illuminate a new facet: namely, an optional vocal part that Nono indicated but Mr. Kremer never performed. Christopher Burns manages the electronic accompaniment; completing the program are works by Pat Muchmore and Richard Warp. At 7 p.m., Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, at 120th Street, Morningside Heights, brownpapertickets.com/event/197540; $20, or $15 for students and underemployed. (Smith)
Roulette (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday) This longtime downtown Manhattan new-music bastion breaks in a considerably larger Brooklyn space with a starry lineup. Friday’s program matches the string quartet Ethel with the guitarist Marc Ribot, and the improvising vocalist Shelley Hersch with the guitarist Fred Frith. On Saturday, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn renew a noisy acquaintance. On Sunday, Mr. Frith leads Cosa Brava, a new quintet chock full of genre-flouting free spirits. And on Tuesday, the refined English sound artist Kaffe Matthews and the explosive Cologne, Germany-based flutist Camilla Hoitenga share a bill. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, at Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; on Friday and Sunday, $35, or $100 for front rows of the house and balcony; on Saturday, $50, $100 for front rows of the house and balcony, or $25 for students; on Tuesday, $15, or $10 for students and 65+. (Smith)
Vincent Royer (Wednesday) Mode Records, an innovative new music label, is presiding over the programming at the Stone through the end of the September, and among the most promising programs of the week is concert of spectral works by Giacinto Scelsi and Horatiu Radulescu, performed by the violist Mr. Royer. Later the same evening, the pianist and composer Anton Batagov offers a program of new works for the screen. At 8 and 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; $10 per set. (Kozinn)
Sequitur (Monday) This enterprising new-music band offers a program of premieres, including Chester Biscardi’s “Sailors and Dreamers” (2010), Eric Moe’s “Jozaphine Freedom” (2009), Ushio Torikai’s Oboe Trio (2011) and an untitled new work by Tamar Muskal. At 8 p.m., Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street. (212) 501-3330, kaufman-center.org; $20. (Kozinn)
