Classical Music Listings From the New York Times

In NYTimes.com:

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (Friday) This adventurous ensemble, conducted by Anne Manson, offers an intriguing lineup of new works, including the world premieres of Roger Zare’s “Time-Lapse” and Sebastian Currier’s “Next Atlantis” for String Orchestra, Video and Pre-Recorded Sounds. The concert also includes the New York premiere of Paquito D’Rivera’s “Conversations With Cachao,” inspired by Cuban traditional music. Mr. D’Rivera performs on clarinet and alto saxophone. At 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall , (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $38 and $48. (Schweitzer)20100128

AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Friday) The pioneering California-born composer Henry Cowell was creating and performing works for “prepared pianos” (pianos with objects stuck in the strings) 30 years before John Cage. Cowell (1897-1965) also did breakthrough and influential explorations of Asian music and electronic resources. He left a large body of stunningly original orchestra works, several of which will be performed in an all-Cowell concert by the conductor Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. Where else can you hope to hear Cowell’s 1962 Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra? Or two of his 21 symphonies? And all seats cost just $25. At 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center , (212) 868-4444, americansymphony.org. (Tommasini)20100128

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Monday) Elliott Carter composed “Dialogues,” a single-movement concerto in the form of a conversation for piano and orchestra, way back in 2003, when he was only 94. The scintillating French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays the piece at Carnegie Hall with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Expect Mr. Carter, now 101, to attend. Mr. Aimard will also play Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. Mr. Levine’s generous program includes Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé ” Suite No. 2 and Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy,” with the violist Steven Ansell as soloist. At 8 p.m., 20100128

UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK (Thursday) Unsound Festival, an experimental-music series founded in 2003 and based in Krakow, Poland, presents its first New York incursion with the help of several local partner organizations, including Wordless Music, the Bunker, Issue Project Room and the Goethe-Institut New York. The opening event indicates the expansive terrain Unsound covers: tshe Finnish electronica musician Vladislav Delay collaborates with Lillevan, a German video artist; and Sebastian Meissner, a German electronic musician also known as Klimek, joins the exciting Polish new-music quartet Kwartludium in a project inspired by the seminal American punk-rock record label SST. (Through Feb. 14.) At 8:30 p.m., David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center , (212) 875-5000, unsound.pl/en; free. (Smith)

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