This Week
Spring Revolution: Anthony Roth Costanzo Presents: Orphic Moments Day 1
Mar 23, 2016 - 7:00pm An immersive and interdisciplinary evening presented by National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music, Orphic Moments is a pioneering collaboration that will be one of the largest performance events at National Sawdust to date. Conductor and composer Orphic Moment, a surreal banquet by Fitch and James Beard award-winning chef , and a full-scale presentation of C.W. Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
New Amsterdam Presents: Michael Mizrahi Album Release Show
Mar 26, 2016 - 7:00pm Revered pianist Michael Mizrahi will release his sophomore album of solo piano works, Currents, on March 25th via New Amsterdam Records. The album brings together six impeccably performed and recorded new American piano works, almost all written specifically with Mizrahi’s singular sound and approach in mind, and featuring composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, Troy Herion, Mark Dancigers, Asha Srinivasan, Missy Mazzoli, and Patrick Burke. As with Mizrahi’s widely acclaimed New Amsterdam debut The Bright Motion (2012), Currents showcases the continued vitality of the piano’s exceptionally rich musical heritage while exploring its capability to express the most contemporary of musical ideas. The result is a significant addition to the solo piano repertory of the 21st century that, as the title suggests, embodies movement forward -- building on the great piano works of the past while propelling the solo piano repertoire ahead in a new and energized direction.
Kai Kight Presents: Annie Sherman
Mar 25th - 7:00pm Soprano-actress Annie Sherman brings together contemporary chamber music by New Yorker's own Christopher Cerrone and Weimar Cabaret by Kurt Weill in an evening exploring love in two pivotal generations. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as perky sensational and finalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation's international Lotte Lenya Competition (2015), Annie employs her cross-genre versatility and a knack for story-telling to bring to life Cerrone and Weill's characters as they grapple with identity and love in their own rapidly changing worlds. Featuring the National Sawdust premiere of Christopher Cerrone's I will learn to love a person (2013) with poetry by Tao Lin, Annie will be joined by Douglas Sumi on piano, Ian Rosenbaum on percussion, and Isabel Kim on clarinet.
Spring Revolution: Anthony Roth Costanzo Presents: Orphic Moments Day 2
Mar 24, 2016 - 7:00pm An immersive and interdisciplinary evening presented by National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music, Orphic Moments is a pioneering collaboration that will be one of the largest performance events at National Sawdust to date. Conductor and composer Orphic Moment, a surreal banquet by Fitch and James Beard award-winning chef , and a full-scale presentation of C.W. Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
The Tell Vol. 6
Mar 20, 2015 • 8:00pm A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.
The Tell Vol. 7
Apr 10, 2016 • 8pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.
In Situ: Son Lux Night 2
June 1, 2016 - 10:00pm Founded by producer-composer Ryan Lott in 2007, Son Lux “works at the nexus of several rarely-overlapping Venn Diagrams” (Pitchfork). With the recent additions to the band of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang, Son Lux is now a ferocious trio both live and on record. Bones (June 23, 2015) is the first album documenting this new formation, and it draws from the three members’ unique and omnivorous musical vernaculars.
Carnegie Hall Presents: Ensemble ACJW
Mar 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Ensemble ACJW is made up of some of the finest young professional classical musicians from the United States and around the world who take part in a two-year fellowship program created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.
In Situ: Fellow Travelers
Mar 20, 2016 - 4:00pm National Sawdust will host a piano-vocal showcase of scenes from Fellow Travelers, the first full-length opera by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce. Fellow Travelers premieres at Cincinnati Opera on June 17 with eight performances through July 10, directed by Kevin Newbury (Bel Canto, Kansas City Choir Boy, Doubt). At National Sawdust, a cast of five singers headed by tenor Aaron Blake and baritone Joseph Lattanzi will perform nearly an hour of excerpts from the eagerly awaited two-act work
Pairings
Brooklyn Represents
Brooklyn is home to so many great musicians and serves to inspire artists from around the world. This pairing brings together artists from Brooklyn, celebrating Brooklyn or making art in Brooklyn. “Très Brooklyn” as the French would say.
Rare Music
Maybe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration or maybe it’s 100 year old instruments that have been reconstructed for this event. The Rare Music pairings pulls together music you’ll probably never hear again. These three events are our curator’s picks for their scarcity.
Imaginative Album Releases
A new album is always something special. But a launch party and concert with the artists performing live is a true experience. Imaginative Album Releases pairs some of the most anticipated new albums this month into one brand new experience.
