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  • String Quartet Ethel in 2010

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    From ETHEL Central: ETHEL w/ Quartetto Gelato Saturday, January 16 @ 8:00PM Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada *World premiere* This concert helps launch the new venue’s inaugural season. Amplified alt-classical NYC string quartet Ethel fuses genre-defying world, blues and classical music, and plays it all with rock-concert intensity. Virtuosic showpieces, relaxed humor,…

  • Ensemble Intercontemporain – Past Meets Present With Ligeti’s Blurred Colors and Frenetic Rhythms

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    Image via Wikipedia A recent Ensemble Intercontemporain performance is reviewed. For decades, it was hard to think of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, a brilliant French chamber orchestra formed in 1976, without factoring in the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who founded the group. Mr. Boulez asserted, not incorrectly, that to advance his rigorous Modernist aesthetic, he…

  • The Necks on Tour

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    The Necks (via last.fm) Upcoming tour dates from The Necks: Known as one of the great cult bands of Australia, The Necks conjure music that defies description in orthodox terms. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is regularly described as, simply, unique. Together for over twenty years,…

  • American Composers Orchestra Season Finale

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    Lukas Ligeti (via last.fm) The American Composers Orchestra has its final show of the season happening May 1st in NY. American Composers Orchestra, the nation’s most consistently adventurous champion of new orchestral work, returns Underground for five World Premieres at 7:30PM on Friday, February 20, presented by Carnegie Hall at Zankel Hall. The concert continues…

  • Music on Main Tonight in Vancouver

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    Music on Main is a small festival taking place this week in Vancouver. Its focus this evening is the works of Louis Andriessen. Music on Main presents: Turning Point Ensemble | Tuesday, April 7, 2009 louis andriessen festival Andriessen’s exploration of physical matter in Zilver (“Silver”) is heard alongside the remarkable music of Claude Vivier,…

  • Nathan Davis & Cristina Valdes in Seattle

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    From Wayward Music: 8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door. Nathan Davis and Cristina Valdes – music for percussion, piano, and electronics Critically acclaimed composer and percussionist Nathan Davis makes music inspired by natural processes, acoustic phenomena, and the abstraction of simple stories. Tonight he plays his solos for triangles, river…

  • Jazz Listings from the New York Times

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    Jon Hassell (via last.fm) Lots going on in New York this week. RASHIED ALI QUINTET (Sunday) Rashied Ali has had a substantial career in the jazz avant-garde, beginning with his role in the late-period bands of John Coltrane. But hard bop is the foundation for this quintet, with a front line of the trumpeter Josh…

  • Meehan/Perkins Duo at Carnegie Hall

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    An upcoming performance from the Meehan/Perkins Duo: The Meehan/ Perkins Duo (Todd Meehan and Douglas Perkins), comprised of two of the country’s leading contemporary percussionists, will perform a concert on Friday, January 16 at 8 PM at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. This is the first full-length recital for these two since they performed in NYC…