From the Bohemian in Exile:
Saturday April 18: Mid American Center for Contemporary Music
Home to the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, the renowned Bowling Green New Music Festival (now entering its 36th year), a robust composition program and a vibrant new music-focused Doctor of Musical Arts curriculum, the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts has been an active contributor to the national and international new music scene for almost four decades. For this concert, faculty and graduate students from Bowling Green State University’s renowned contemporary music program will be performing at Trinosophes with a program of new music by Georges Aperghis, John Drumheller, Jonathan Harvey, BGSU faculty composer Mikel Kuehn, Bright Sheng, Toru Takemitsu and Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang.
Doors at 8 pm; $6.April 22: Gerald Cleaver‘s Black Host
Drummer Gerald Cleaver, born and raised in Detroit, is a product of the city’s rich music tradition. He earned a music education degree from the University of Michigan and taught public school in Detroit before joining the jazz faculty at both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Gerald moved to NYC in 2002. He has performed and recorded with Joe Morris, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell, Miroslav Vitous, Michael Formanek, Ralph Alessi, Jeremy Pelt, David Torn, Mario Pavone and Tomasz Stanko, among others.
Doors at 8 pm; $10-20.April 29 Mothlight Micro Cinema presents
May 3: Interwaving Strecht
May 5: Instant Composers Pool
May 7: Detroit to Baghdad
May 8: Doug Halladay’s EXFactor, featuring Andrew Bishop, Pepe Espinosa
May 10: Tim Berne’s Snake Oil
May 20: Natural Information Society
May 22: Elizabeth Ward
May 23: Laurence Miller films and music
June 1: Neil Hagerty
June 19 & 20: Rod Williams with Marcus Elliot, Jaribu Shahid, Djallo Djakate
June 23: Paal Nilssen-Love‘s Large Unit
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