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  • Harris Eisenstadt Performances In June

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    From Improvised Communications: Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt is laying a bit low this month waiting for his first child to be born, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still a few gigs worth mentioning around New York, including a performance with Jessica Pavone’s new name-challenged quartet and duets with Brahim Fribgane (in Howard Mandel’s ethnomusicology class…

  • Communicating Ideas Without a Word

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    The New York Times reviews a performance hosted by the Electronic Music Foundation. Composers and poets, and of course, singers, have long rhapsodized about the purity and naturalness of the human voice, and about how instruments are really just mechanical imitations on which performers aspire to produce a lyrical line and a singing tone. Strictly…

  • Lukas Ligeti at Portland Eye and Ear Control

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    From Portland Eye and Ear Control: 11/10/08 – Lukas Ligeti Lukas Ligeti – NYC percussionist MONDAY, 11/10/08 8pm JaceGace (www.jacegace.com) 2045 SE Belmont donations {please} (suggested $5) *Also Check out: –Lukas Ligeti’s Workshop –at Portland State University –Monday afternoon –3-430pm (location to be announced) “Composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti is developing a style of music uniquely his…