Classical Music Listings from the New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (Friday and Saturday) New music fans will enjoy the chance to hear work by the seven winners of the Underwood New Music Readings (Matti Kovler, Hannah Lash, Eric Lindsay, Tamar Muskal, Ricardo Romaneiro, Christopher Stark and Xi Wang), which will be performed under the baton of George Manahan and José Serebrier during a working rehearsal on Friday and full readings on Saturday. One composer will win a $15,000 commission to write a new work for the orchestra. The winner of the first Audience Choice Award will compose a cellphone ringtone. At 10 a.m. on Friday and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Miller Theater at Columbia University, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 854-7799, millertheater.com; free. (Vivien Schweitzer)

ARCHIPELAGO (Friday) In the season finale of the border-crossing new-music series featuring composers and players who record for the New Amsterdam label, two inventive, idiosyncratic composer-singers take the spotlight. Craig Wedren is supported by ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble). And Corey Dargel, with the pianist Kathleen Supové, sings his cycle about voluntary amputees, and with ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble), songs from his “Thirteen Near-Death Experiences.” At 8 p.m., Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, at Water Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, (718) 222-8500, galapagosartspace.com; $15. (Allan Kozinn)

KEYS TO THE FUTURE (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) This adventurous festival of contemporary keyboard music, presented at the Greenwich House Music School its first four years, has now moved a few blocks east to Le Poisson Rouge. All told, an impressive roster of 10 new-music pianists will perform 29 works by 19 composers in three one-hour concerts. The players are Amy Briggs, Stephen Gosling, Karen Hakobyan, Eric Huebner, Marina Lomazov, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, Molly Morkoski, Tatjana Rankovich and the festival’s director, Joseph Rubenstein. The composers include Mr. Rubenstein as well as Gyorgy Ligeti, Don Byron, Magnus Lindberg, Chick Corea, Richard Danielpour, Judd Greenstein, Philippe Hersant, Valentin Silvestrov, Lowell Liebermann, Philippe Bodin, Kevin Oldham, Nikolai Kapustin, Annie Gosfield, Marc Mellits, Bruce Stark, Rodion Shchedrin, Vuk Kulenovic and Barbara White. At 7:30 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 505-3474, keystothefuture.org; $20. (Kozinn)

SIGNAL (Thursday) Brad Lubman conducts Signal, his excellent new-music chamber orchestra, in the premiere of Nico Muhly’s Stabat Mater and the New York premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s reconsideration of the Orpheus myth, “The Corridor.” At 7:30 p.m., Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, (212) 501-3303, kaufman-center.org; $20 to $30; $12.50 for students. (Kozinn)